Hoot's Corner

August 16, 2012
THF to address Connecticut audience on Aug 29
Donald Hooton Talk on August 29 All coaches, trainers and parents of high school and college athletes are invited to a free seminar Wednesday, Aug 29 from 6-8 pm on “Athletes, Steroids and Rx Drug Misuse.” The event will be at Norwalk City Hall and the featured speaker is Donald Hooton, vice president of the Taylor […]
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August 13, 2012
Dennis DX, 29
DENNIS DX, who is single and from Nottingham, is a TV extra who has appeared on EastEnders, Holby City and Shameless. Using steroids caused severe mood swings and he has now stopped. He says: I used to be a project manager for a charity which would build self-esteem in young people - ironic, as I […]
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Col Wood, 40
COL WOOD, a former chef from Rugby, Warwickshire, fears taking steroids made him go blind in one eye. He says: I've always loved playing rugby - I was never that big, weighing just 12st, but I always made up for that with my determination and strength. Certainly nobody ever messed with me on the pitch, […]
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August 10, 2012
National Baseball Hall of Fame, PBATS, Taylor Hooton Foundation Join in Launching Collaborative Study with UMass-Boston to Measure Public Opinion, Beliefs About Steroid Use Among Youth
-  First Action of Educational Partnership to Inform of Performance-Enhancing Substance Dangers  - (COOPERSTOWN, NY) - The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will collaborate with the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society and the Taylor Hooton Foundation to commission a national survey, to commence this fall, which will measure public understanding on the use […]
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August 8, 2012
MLB Supports HOF Anti-steroid initiative
MLB continues to be the largest support of youth steroid education in America.  MLB is now adding the Baseball Hall of Fame’s new BASE program to the list of programs they support. Please take 5 minutes and watch Commissioner Selig’s video.  He has great things to say about the Taylor Hooton Foundation. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120807&content_id=36273090&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb Don By Jeremy […]
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July 27, 2012
Big-league message for children
Big league dreams got a real-life workout on Tuesday when Busch Stadium hosted 100 young baseball and softball players from the Belleville Khoury League. The boys and girls took batting practice, stretched in the outfield and ran the bases. “It feels like you made the winning run,” said Shelby Fetterer, 10, of the Hotshots softball […]
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July 24, 2012
Glenn Kulka
Glenn Kulka Dealing with Demons round midnight, back in April 2000, his thoughts blurred by a mind-bending mixture of cocaine, vodka and pot, former football star Glenn Kulka pointed a 16-gauge shotgun at the head of his purebred black Labrador retriever, Rocco. Looking every bit the biker bad guy with long hair and goatee, wearing […]
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July 11, 2012
Gerry James
Gerry James used to use steroids. He used to be a bodybuilder. He used to be a pro football player. He used to be a professional wrestler. He used to be a long-drive competitor. James used to do and be a lot of things. Now, he's simply a golfer trying to find his way in […]
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July 2, 2012
Supplements: Manufacturing troubles widespread
About 50% of the companies that the FDA has inspected have been found to be violating manufacturing rules!  Some of these companies don’t even have “recipes” for the supplements that they are making. As users of supplements, we should all be asking:  “What in the heck are we taking?”  Answer:  “In many cases, we have […]
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June 26, 2012
Matthew Dear
‘Steroids killed our son’: Teenager tried to bulk up his muscles.. within weeks he was dead   Matthew thought anabolic steroids would give him the bigger muscles he desired… but taking them ended in tragedy With peroxide blond hair and a spray-tanned semi-naked body, Cabinet minister Caroline Spelman's son Jonny flexes his muscles for the […]
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