Download or read book When Winning Costs Too Much written by John McCloskey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this day and age when the sports pages of the local newspaper read like either a police report or a pharmacology text, it is impossible not to conclude that the mantra of winning has entered very dangerous ground. This book not only details these abuses and the dangers of the drugs themselves, but also addresses the misguided coaches, fialed mentors, and poor role models who have contributed to the decline of the sports-for-sports sake mentalitly.