The law is a rare legislative foray into sports regulation in a state whose passion for high school football inspired the best-selling book ‘’Friday Night Lights,'' about six-time state champion Permian High School in Odessa. Taylor Hooton, a baseball player at Plano High School in suburban Dallas, got steroids from another teen after his coach told him to bulk up. Under the three-strikes-and-you're-out law, students won't be able to compete for 30 days after one positive test for substances banned by the University Interscholastic League, the state's public-school sports regulator. Texas led the nation this year in the number of high school football players who signed letters of intent with college Division I-A teams, according to an annual list compiled by David Barron in Texas Football magazine. Lawmakers approved that bill over objections from the Texas High School Coaches Association, teacher groups and the State Board of Education. Linn Goldberg, chief of the division of health medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, said he hopes that Texas replaces the screening with preventive educational programs and counseling for students who test positive. read more
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