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This is from Sports Illustrated, Jan. 15, 2008

full story here: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/01/15/sins.of.a.father012...

Sins of a Father
Corey Gahan was a champion in-line skater at 13. Then his dad put him on a regimen of steroids and HgH
Posted: Tuesday January 15, 2008 10:22AM; Updated: Tuesday January 15, 2008 2:12PM

By Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim

Corey suspected that he was "doing something wrong," but he trusted his dad and his trainer.

The kid hated needles. But it hardly mattered. About once a week he'd roll up his sleeve, expose his shoulder and feel the cold metal plunge into what little muscle he had there. He would scrunch up his face as if he had smelled something foul and often close his eyes until the contents of the syringe emptied into his bloodstream. Then he could return to his PlayStation 2.

This cartoon just came out in December's edition of Bicycle Retail And Industry News .. or BRAIN. Click the thumbnail image to view, it may take 2 clicks...Dig it! Thanks O'Grady.

This is disturbing. A father is currently serving jail time for injecting his underage son with steroids. The reporters at Sports Illustrated wrote a compelling piece -- almost unbelievable in it's depiction of abuse. Read the full article at the Sports Illustrated website.

Got this http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2007/12/society_on_steroids_a_bil... from Lofty Goat. This illustrates how damaging the public’s general lack of reflective thought has allowed not only the corruption of our National baby (baseball) but of matters far more reaching.

You can also check out a video from the link above.

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You may remember Joe Papp testifying for USADA in the Landis case. His interview with By Dawn M. Richardson MD FACEP details the dangers of doping products. Joe is lucky to be alive.