For the record, Bo's "injury" was a degenerative bone disease that affected his hip. Most injuries that I have been aware of in the anabolic steroid arena have been to ligaments, cartlidge, and muscle tears, but rarely bone.

Most athletes I've been around that juiced exhibited noticable changes, especially from one year to the next as they cycled into use. Athletes like Bo and Herschel didn't do that. They were muscular at an early, prepubecent age.

In Bo's case, I can say for certain that he never had many of the visible side effects that I've seen with athletes I knew to be using. (acne on the back and arms, rapid muscle gain, mood changes, bloating during off-cycle, etc. ) Granted, none of the other athletes I knew were of the caliber of Bo, but they all experienced many of those those signs.

You must remember, Bo was 6'0" , 200 lbs and had 32" thighs at the age of 16. He wasn't "ripped" in the same sense of the athletes you see that aggressively weight train. Bo was just naturally big at an early age.

cadillac,

That's an amazing photo. I guess that's Bo in the middle, like a man among boys. Just amazing!

i have no idea about bo or any other athlete. thats why im suspicious if they are great and get some odd illness/injury. walter payton gets liver cancer at 40. flojo dies early of some screwy thing. giambi gets pituitary cancer. caminiti dies. obviously even if you dont get an illness doesnt mean youre not taking junk--palmiero probably didnt take it until he had been a pro 10 years or even until early this year. i wonder if dravecky took it too. heck, muscularity isnt necessarily an indication. so did bo use? maybe, i dont know. you dont know.

It is a pic of a man among boys. The scene is a fun event held at A-Day game one year as I recall. In any event the deal was that kids could race Bo. All the kids were given a 20 yard head start., the kids starting on the 20 and going 80 yards vs. Bo running a full 100 yards. Bo beat them all easily. Pretty amazing considering the number of kids participating and the odds being that one or two of them would be pretty fast runners.

As someone who typically thinks these guys are guilty...I just don't see it with Bo. He was just a one in a million with that ability. I respect him for just coming out and saying these things, as opposed to dodging the issue like a lot of these guys do (Giambi, Sosa, McGwire, etc.)

The guy has even authorized his doctors to give out his blood tests...thats something few others do.

"I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Maybe I did or maybe I didn't,"' Jackson said. "I didn't. Never did. Never had to do."

sounds like raphael palmiero. period.

did palmero offer his blood tests to the media? no he hid behind his union. period

You know what, Cap? I'm with you. I believe that MOST of the successful athletes have used steroids from about 1975 to today.

There were very easily obtainable for many, many years, and the temptation to use them is way too much for a professional athlete to resist. The ONLY way to deter the pros from using is to implement a MONTHLY, COMPREHENSIVE BLOOD TEST for every pro athlete on the roster . . . yes, monthly and comprehensive.

May sound like Palmiero but he ain't :thumb:

Palmiero has his ass in a bind with Congress and faces a perjury investigation.
I bet Bo would volunteer to take a lie detector test right in font of Congess.

if any of ya'll think steroids cause cancer then you need to do your research. As far as ken goes you think maybe using hard rec drugs had something to do with it? as far as walter goes don't grown man that are 40 die everday from heart problems? ever think it might run in his family? Steroids aren't what cause a lot of the problems that kill these guys its abusing the juice(from not being educated about it), and a combination of hard rec drugs, alcohol, and overall just a lifestyle were everything is done in excess. As far as how long athletes have been on juice, I beleive almost every single athlete that has been successful since the 1950-60 has used some kind of anabloic. And I wanna know why is it ok to take cortiso steroids to help heal an injury but not anabolic steroids? why is it ok to have lasik eye surgury so you have 20-10 vision when you had 20-20 before the surgery? why are all the performance enhancing surgeries ok but not anabolic steroids? makes no damn since. They should just legalize the damn things and just keep strict control of it to make sure it stays out of the hands of minors. I will leave ya'll with this little tidbit not a single person ever, has died as a direct result of steroids. This is fact I know some people blame there problems on steroids but its not from that.