The Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation recently announced the creation of a partnership with the Taylor Hooton Foundation to fight steroid abuse on a comprehensive education program in the Arlington Independent School District.

Details of the partnership and program were announced at a press conference at the Hutcheson Junior High School in Arlington.

From Texas.rangers.mlb.com:

The Rangers-Hooton Foundation program will educate and inform Arlington ISD Junior and Senior High School students on the dangers of anabolic and Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs (APEDs). The Hooton Foundation and Texas Rangers representatives, including Rangers Foundation President and club Hall of Fame catcher Jim Sundberg will make presentations at numerous Junior and Senior High Schools in the Arlington ISD throughout the school year. The first event was held at Shackelford Junior High in January.

“The Texas Rangers are proud to join with the Taylor Hooton Foundation on this very important project,” commented Rangers Managing Partner and CEO Chuck Greenberg. “The abuse of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs is a serious issue with our youth. The Hooton Foundation is one of the nation’s leading advocates of the dangers of these drugs, and we look forward to helping them continue the cause.”

Greenberg also said, “We are extremely proud to be working with the Rangers in educating our children about this threat. On and off the field we couldn’t have a better partner,” Don Hooton, President of the Hooton Foundation said. “Anabolic steroid use continues to be a growing problem among our nation’s youth. The most powerful weapon that we have to fight this battle is education, and we are so very pleased that the Texas Rangers are joining forces with us to help insure that students in the Arlington ISD are exposed to the truth about these dangerous, illegal drugs.”

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Derek Jeter, the New York Yankees captain, is avoiding questions about A-Rod until the start of spring training.

Jeter did not answer questions concerning his high-profile teammate a day after Alex Rodriguez admitted to using performance enhancing drugs over a period of three years ending in 2003.

From Espnstar.com:

“I’m not addressing Alex’s situation until everybody’s here,” Jeter told reporters Tuesday at the Yankees’ training complex. “If you’ve got baseball questions, I’ll do that. You know where I’m coming from. I don’t want to talk to you guys today and have three more people show up tomorrow. It’s better to get everyone together.

“Are things a distraction? It’s a distraction when you talk about it every single day.”

New York’s position players must report to spring training by next Tuesday.

In an exclusive interview conducted Monday with ESPN, Rodriguez acknowledged using performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003, when he was a member of the Texas Rangers.

The interview came two days after Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003. The report stated that Rodriguez’s name appeared on a list of 104 players who tested positive during a survey conducted by Major League Baseball.

The Yankees offered their support for A-Rod in a statement by saying that they respect his decision of taking accountability for his actions.

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Alex Rodriguez or A-rod, who admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in the past, gave a talk against steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in a school in Baltimore.

Maryland congressional representative Elijah Cummings and state school Chief Dr. Nancy Grasmick, recently established an anti-steroid program called Powered by Me!.

According to Cong. Cummings, it was Alex Rodriguez himself who contacted him to offer his support for the anti-steroid program.

Rodriguez made his speech at the Milford Mill Academy in front of 500 student athletes last Tuesday.

In his speech, he acknowledged his mistake of taking a performance-enhancing drug. According to him, one of his missions in life is to turn a negative into a positive. He added that telling the truth felt liberating and good. Learning from our mistakes is something that we should be proud of, said Rodriguez.

The 12-time All star admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003, while still with the Texas Rangers.

He recounted his steroids use and advised the students to avoid using similar drugs.

Cummings was pleased that Rodriguez supported the program by giving a speech. He expects that a speech coming from such a high profile person could make a strong impact on the youth on playing fair and healthy.

According to Baltimore Sun:

“I am here today simply because I made a mistake,” Rodriguez said, according to the Baltimore Sun. “Now, how many of you here have made a mistake? Well, I’m here because I made a mistake, and one of my missions in life is to turn a negative into a positive. And to actually tell the truth, it feels pretty darn good and liberating. It is very important to me professionally and spiritually. At the end of the day when we look into the mirror, we learn from our mistakes, it’s something we should feel proud of and become a better version of ourselves.”

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Alex Rodriguez is a Major League Baseball player who used to play for the Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners. He plays third baseman for the New York Yankees, is the youngest player to ever hit 500 home runs, has the most number of home runs and total bases, and is one of the best all-around players in present baseball. Rodriguez levels with the likes of baseball legends Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Pete Rose. So why is he in the news? Just recently, a sports magazine reported that the baseball superstar had tested positive for anabolic steroids back in 2003 while playing for the Rangers. That was the time when he started reaping the seeds that led to his status as the most-talented player in MLB. It was actually okay to be test positive since there was no penalty back then. It was supposedly a forgotten result except the master list for the players turned up during the BALCO investigation and the physical samples (which were supposed to be destroyed) were found by the FBI during a raid on the diagnostics laboratory that held the tests.

From Washington Post:

According to the report, Rodriguez was one of 104 players on a list of positive tests that year, when baseball instituted “survey” testing to determine the extent of steroid use in the game. Those supposedly anonymous results were seized in April 2004 by federal agents investigating the Balco steroid ring, which did not involve Rodriguez. The legality of that seizure is the subject of a case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, Calif.

A message left for Rodriguez’s publicist yesterday was not returned, but Rodriguez, who has repeatedly denied having used steroids, is quoted by SI.com as declining comment. “You’ll have to ask the union,” he reportedly said. “I’m not saying anything.”

Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball’s executive vice president for labor relations, would not discuss the validity of the story, saying in a statement that the 2003 survey testing was “intended to be non-disciplinary and anonymous.”

Rodriguez won’t be facing any disciplinary action, no legal sanction or any penalty unlike his baseball counterpart, Barry Bonds. Unfortunately, this positive test will most likely give him a negative impression among the Major League officials and teams, and will affect his position as the highest-paid player in baseball.

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