Steroids
The Mitchell Report: Bonds, Clemens, Pettitte, Tejada among MLB All-Stars revealed
(12/14/07)
NEW YORK -- Seven MVPs and 31 All-Stars -- one for every position -- and that still wasn't the worst of it for the long-awaited Mitchell Report. That infamy belonged to Roger Clemens, the greatest pitcher of his era. The steroids era. Seven-time Cy Young Award winner, eighth on the all-time list with 354 victories, an MVP and All-Star himself and once a lock for the Hall of Fame, Clemens now has another distinction: the biggest name linked by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to illegal use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.. ...
Cardinals are implicated but avoid major hit
(12/14/07)
ST. LOUIS -- The Mitchell Report was notable for the St. Louis Cardinals from the standpoint of the players who were not implicated. Former home run king Mark McGwire is mentioned extensively in the 409-page report released Thursday, but mainly as a historical reference point. McGwire's reputation has been stained by his refusal to answer questions at a Congressional hearing on steroid abuse in 2005, raising suspicion that could keep him out of the Hall of Fame...
Report hits home around sports world
(12/14/07)
Wow. That's what New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan had to say after seeing the names in the Mitchell Report on doping in baseball. The ramifications stretched far beyond baseball Thursday, sending reverberations through the other leagues and all the way to the White House, where President Bush's spokeswoman expressed hope this "marks the beginning of the end of steroid abuse."...
Mitchell report to be released this afternoon
(12/13/07)
NEW YORK -- George Mitchell's report on doping in baseball will finger MVPs and all-stars and call for beefed-up testing by an outside agency to clean up the game, The Associated Press learned Wednesday. The report will not address amphetamines, which long have been recognized as part of the baseball drug culture, two sources with knowledge of the findings said. ...
BALCO leaker's plea deal rejected by federal judge
(06/15/07)
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge took the unusual step Thursday of rejecting a plea deal for an attorney who admitted leaking the grand jury testimony of elite athletes to two newspaper reporters. Troy Ellerman's lawyer argued in court papers for a 15-month prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to allowing two San Francisco Chronicle reporters to view transcripts of grand jury testimony from Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and other athletes embroiled in the government's steroids investigation. ...
Raid reportedly implicates Matthews, Holyfield, Canseco
(03/01/07)
The West Coast had BALCO. Now the East Coast could be in the midst of its own steroid scandal. An illicit steroid distribution network, which may be responsible for Internet sales of performance-enhancing drugs nationwide, has been targeted by an upstate New York prosecutor. Customers reportedly included Los Angeles Angels outfielder Gary Matthews Jr., former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and former baseball star Jose Canseco...
Bonds says teammate had no role in positive drug test
(01/12/07)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds said he did not get amphetamines from teammate Mark Sweeney, but did not deny a report Thursday saying he tested positive for the drugs last season. According to a story in the New York Daily News, the San Francisco slugger failed an amphetamines test in 2006. The newspaper reported that when first informed of the positive result, Bonds attributed it to a substance he had taken from Sweeney's locker...
Court rules feds are entitled to baseball steroid testing data
(12/28/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- With Barry Bonds still in their sights, federal investigators probing steroids in sports can now use the names and urine samples of about 100 Major League Baseball players who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, following a ruling Wednesday from a federal appeals court...
Sprinter Gatlin agrees to 8-year ban
(08/23/06)
Sprinter Justin Gatlin agreed to an eight-year ban from track and field Tuesday, avoiding a lifetime penalty in exchange for his cooperation with doping authorities and because of the "exceptional circumstances" surrounding his first positive drug test...
Anderson meets with grand jury, then judge
(07/28/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds' personal trainer left federal court with his legal team Thursday after shuttling between secret grand jury hearings and closed-door appearances before a judge. Greg Anderson was ordered to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Bonds on suspicion of perjury and tax evasion. His attorneys had promised that he would not testify and instead would fight the subpoena and go to prison if necessary...
No charges filed on Bonds; new grand jury convenes
(07/21/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- No indictment was returned Thursday against Barry Bonds, though a new grand jury will be convened to consider possible perjury and tax-evasion charges against the star slugger as part of the ongoing federal probe into steroids. Word that a Bonds indictment was not imminent came as one grand jury's term expired. The new panel will continue to investigate whether Bonds lied under oath when he said he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs...
Bonds probe reaches key juncture
(07/20/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- The federal investigation of Barry Bonds approaches a key juncture today, with the grand jury probing the baseball star for perjury and tax evasion set to expire and a possible indictment of Bonds looming. Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, also was awaiting a key ruling from a federal appeals court that could release him from prison, where he was sent earlier this month after refusing to testify against his childhood friend...
Bonds' legal team prepares for indictment
(07/15/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds' legal team is preparing for the Giants slugger to be indicted as soon as next week and has begun plotting his defense. Attorney Laura Enos told The Associated Press on Friday that Bonds, second on the career home run list, could be charged with tax evasion and perjury. Enos, Bonds' personal attorney, also said the lawyers believe the grand jury investigating the star player will expire next Thursday...
Speculation swirls about forthcoming indictment for Bonds
(07/13/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- With the grand jury investigating Barry Bonds apparently nearing the end of its term, speculation has swirled around the possibility that one of the game's greatest sluggers could be indicted for perjury or other crimes. Last week, a federal judge who ordered Bonds' personal trainer jailed for refusing to testify against the San Francisco Giants star said the grand jury's probe into whether Bonds lied under oath about steroid use would end within weeks...
Bonds' trainer sent to prison for contempt in perjury case
(07/06/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds' personal trainer was held in contempt of court and taken to prison Wednesday for refusing to testify to the federal grand jury investigating the San Francisco Giants' slugger for perjury. Greg Anderson, who served three months in prison after pleading guilty last year for his role in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid scandal, was led out of U.S. ...
Bonds' trainer refuses to give testimony for grand jury
(06/30/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds' personal trainer refused to testify Thursday to the federal grand jury investigating the San Francisco slugger for perjury. Greg Anderson, who served three months in prison after pleading guilty last year for his role in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid scandal, could be sent back to prison if found in contempt of court for refusing to testify...
No NHL players fail drug test in first year
(06/13/06)
No NHL player failed a drug test during the first season of the league's anti-doping program, adopted last year in the collective bargaining agreement that ended the yearlong lockout. "I suppose it's safe to say that the results confirmed what we knew already, which is the use of performance enhancing drugs is not prevalent in our sport," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Monday in an e-mail...
Players can scrap new drug policy if contract talks fail
(05/10/06)
NEW YORK -- Major league players can scrap the sport's toughened drug rules if they don't have a new labor contract by August, a provision drawing attention from congressmen who pushed for the strengthened policy. If players and owners don't agree to a new labor contract by Aug. 1, the union has until Aug. 15 to unilaterally end the new drug policy as of Dec. 19, when the current collective bargaining agreement expires...
Poll: Fans think MLB is too lax on steroids
(04/26/06)
WASHINGTON -- Most baseball fans think Major League Baseball could do more to curb the use of steroids, and they have doubts about slugger Barry Bonds as he chases the sport's career home run record. Baseball has fallen short on keeping the sport drug-free, according to 53 percent in an AP-AOL Sports poll. Those most likely to feel that way are fans 30 and older and those with more education...
Experts say perjury conviction will be hard to pin on Bonds
(04/15/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Even if Giants slugger Barry Bonds is charged with lying to a grand jury, it will be hard to convict him, former federal prosecutors and other lawyers said. "It is a lot tougher to make a perjury case than most people think because it takes more than just proving that the person made a statement that was untrue," said Adam Hoffinger, a criminal defense lawyer in Washington D.C. ...
Selig throws first pitch in steroids probe
(03/31/06)
NEW YORK -- Baseball began its investigation Thursday into alleged steroid use by Barry Bonds and others, and the head of the inquiry immediately came under attack because of his close ties to the sport. In the wake of a searing book about Bonds, commissioner Bud Selig appointed former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell -- and currently a director of the Boston Red Sox -- to lead the investigation...
Bonds plans to sue authors, book publisher
(03/24/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds' lawyer said he plans to sue the authors and publisher of a book alleging the outfielder used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. Attorney Michael Rains sent a letter Thursday to an agent for the authors of "Game of Shadows," alerting them of his plans to sue the writers, publisher Gotham Books, the San Francisco Chronicle and Sports Illustrated, which published excerpts earlier this month...
Selig says he will read book before making decisions on Bonds
(03/09/06)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Bud Selig wants to read the book before making any decisions about Barry Bonds. On a day when Bonds was in California for a child custody hearing, baseball kept buzzing about him Wednesday -- specifically, about an upcoming book that describes in vivid detail the slugger's alleged steroids use...
Giant killer: 'Game of Shadows'
(03/08/06)
NEW YORK -- Barry Bonds used a vast array of performance-enhancing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormone, for at least five seasons beginning in 1998, according to a book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters. An excerpt from "Game of Shadows," which details the San Francisco slugger's extensive doping program, appears in the March 13 issue of Sports Illustrated...
Columbus player admits to failing drug test during Olympic test
(01/22/06)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The new NHL now has a black eye from steroids. Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Bryan Berard admitted Friday he failed a drug test on Nov. 12. The sample was collected after his name was submitted by USA Hockey, the national governing body for the sport, as a potential Olympic participant...
Palmeiro contends he still doesn't know source of steroids
(12/29/05)
NEW YORK -- Free-agent first baseman Rafael Palmeiro still isn't sure why he tested positive for steroids, he told The New York Times for a story published Wednesday. The 41-year-old Palmeiro was suspended in August for 10 days by Major League Baseball. His steroid test in May came up positive -- just six weeks after he testified in Congress that he had never taken the performance-enhancing drugs...
Congress turns focus from baseball to other professional sports
(11/18/05)
WASHINGTON -- For months, at hearing after hearing on Capitol Hill, lawmakers chided baseball, championed the NFL and mostly left the NBA and NHL alone. One steroid-testing agreement later, that landscape has changed. Now that major league baseball players will be facing harsher penalties, Congress is sending a message to other professional athletes: We want you to catch up...
Baseball owners ratify tougher steroids policy
(11/18/05)
MILWAUKEE -- Baseball owners voted unanimously Thursday to approve the toughened steroids policy agreed to with the players' association earlier this week. "I'm glad we had this opportunity today. It was a very easy ratification," commissioner Bud Selig said. "Every vote was unanimous today, and that one was about as easy as it gets. As it should have been."...
Owners, players toughen steroid penalties
(11/16/05)
WASHINGTON -- Major leaguers will face tougher penalties for steroid use and testing for amphetamines next season under an agreement between owners and players reached Tuesday after months of negotiations and pressure from Congress. The deal, which must be ratified by both sides, includes a 50-game suspension for a first failed test, 100 games for a second and a lifetime ban for a third...
Congress will not prosecute Palmeiro on perjury charges
(11/11/05)
WASHINGTON -- Baseball star Rafael Palmeiro will not be prosecuted on perjury charges after lawmakers said Thursday there isn't enough evidence to prove he lied when he told Congress under oath that he had "never used steroids" -- six weeks before failing a steroid test...
Selig OK with proposed legislation
(11/10/05)
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig supports revised congressional legislation that would suspend players for a half-season following a first failed steroids test. Selig said negotiators for owners and players have made progress in talks but still haven't reached an agreement on a new drug deal. The length of the initial penalty appears to be the biggest obstacle...
Proposed penalties change to gain support in Senate
(11/09/05)
WASHINGTON -- Athletes who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs would be banned for a half-season instead of two years for a first offense under changes made Tuesday to gain support for steroid legislation in the Senate. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., and John McCain, R-Ariz., calls for a one-season ban for a second steroid offense and a lifetime ban for a third. It would apply to Major League Baseball, the NFL, NBA, NHL and baseball's minor leagues...
Pete Rose Jr. pleads guilty to sale of GBL
(11/08/05)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Pete Rose Jr., the son of baseball's all-time hits leader, pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he distributed GBL, a drug sometimes sold as a steroid alternative, to his minor league teammates. The 35-year-old Rose appeared before a federal judge and said nothing but "yes, sir" when asked if he understood the charges and his plea...
Conte, other BALCO officials sentenced
(10/19/05)
The man who started the lab received four months in prison and four months of home confinement. SAN FRANCISCO -- Victor Conte was sentenced to four months in prison and four months of home confinement Tuesday for his role in a scheme to provide pro athletes with undetectable banned drugs...
More teens try to find bodies in bottles
(10/19/05)
The labels promise everything from"unbelievable improvements in body composition" to the ability to "lose 30 pounds in 30 days." The price isn't bad either, anywhere from $5 to $50 per bottle, depending on brand and quantity. And just about anyone can walk into a health store and buy some...
Congress places spotlight on Fehr
(09/29/05)
McCain admonished the head of the baseball players union. WASHINGTON -- Hank Aaron and other members of the Hall of Fame told Congress they back Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig's bid for tougher steroid penalties. Then, lawmakers told players union chief Donald Fehr that he needs to act soon -- a stance punctuated by Sen. John McCain's admonishment, "Don't you get it?"...
Leaders of pro sports leagues to testify today on Capitol Hill
(09/28/05)
WASHINGTON -- Career home run leader Hank Aaron and four other baseball Hall of Famers planned to accompany commissioner Bud Selig on his latest trip to Capitol Hill to discuss steroids today. Selig, Major League Baseball players' association chief executive Donald Fehr, and commissioners and union leaders from the NFL, NBA and NHL will testify at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing...
Players offer own idea of stiff penalties for steroids
(09/27/05)
The union says a 50-game suspension is too much for a first-time offense. NEW YORK -- Baseball players offered to accept a stiffer penalty for first-time steroid offenders -- 20 games instead of 10 days -- along with agreeing to amphetamine tests, but their proposal Monday still fell short of what commissioner Bud Selig wanted...
Congress probes whether Palmeiro lied under oath
(09/20/05)
WASHINGTON -- Congressional investigators looking into whether Rafael Palmeiro lied under oath are interviewing players who know him, including a Colorado outfielder suspended this year for steroids, The Associated Press has learned. Palmeiro testified to the House Government Reform Committee in March that he never had used steroids. ...
MLB's home run average is at its lowest in 8 years
(09/20/05)
NEW YORK -- Baseball had a brownout this year, with home runs dropping to their lowest level in eight years. Is there a link between the power outage and tougher steroid testing? "A lot of guys who were hitting them haven't been hitting them," Florida's Lenny Harris said. "I think the drug policy had a lot to do with it. It changed a lot of guys' diets. There are too many people having off years."...
Palmeiro returns but doesn't say much to media
(08/12/05)
BALTIMORE -- There was no apology, no mention of the s-word. Rafael Palmeiro returned from a 10-day suspension Thursday eager to play baseball for the Baltimore Orioles, yet unwilling to discuss the positive test for steroids that tarnished his name, perhaps forever...
Congressmen query MLB about Palmeiro
(08/10/05)
WASHINGTON -- Two congressmen asked Major League Baseball's commissioner, Bud Selig, to provide more details about the steroid testing that led to Rafael Palmeiro's 10-day suspension. Rep. Cliff Stearns, the Florida Republican who introduced a bill to establish uniform drug programs in professional sports, and Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, wrote to Selig on Tuesday requesting information about Palmeiro's case...
Congress plans to investigate Palmeiro
(08/04/05)
A committee wants to know if the baseball player perjured himself in testimony in March. WASHINGTON -- Congress will investigate whether baseball slugger Rafael Palmeiro perjured himself when he told a House committee that he hadn't taken steroids...
Source says Palmeiro tested positive for stanozolol
(08/03/05)
NEW YORK -- Rafael Palmeiro's positive steroid test was for stanozolol, a powerful anabolic steroid that is not available in dietary supplements, according to a newspaper report. The New York Times, citing a person in baseball with direct knowledge of the sport's drug-testing program, reported on its Web site Tuesday that Palmeiro tested positive for the drug known by the brand name Winstrol, most notably linked to the Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson of Canada...
Who can we believe when it comes to steroids?
(08/03/05)
The year was 1973 and drugs in baseball had an entirely different meaning when the late Tug McGraw rallied both a team and a city by telling them "You Gotta Believe." The New York Mets and their fans believed enough to get to the World Series that year...
Experts differ on purity of supplements
(08/03/05)
BALTIMORE -- Depending on whom you ask, Rafael Palmeiro's claim that he unwittingly took something to cause a positive test for steroids is either plausible -- or laughable. The lack of regulation and testing of nutritional supplements lends credence to the claims of players who say they were caught unaware by positive tests, one researcher said Tuesday...
Senate joins House in proposing bill for tougher steroid legislation
(05/25/05)
WASHINGTON -- Athletes in the four major U.S. professional leagues would be subject to two-year bans for a first positive drug test under legislation proposed Tuesday. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., joined House Government Reform Committee chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., and ranking Democrat Henry Waxman of California, in introducing the Clean Sports Act of 2005...
Amphetamines may be next topic in league's drug discussions
(05/22/05)
SEATTLE -- The clandestine jars in baseball clubhouses filled with "greenies" -- the potentially deadly amphetamines, speed or pep pills that secretly fueled generations of players -- are nowhere to be seen. Now, caffeine-spiked, vitamin-boosted Red Bull, Spark and other concoctions promising energy are all the rage, lining glass-doored fridges and locker shelves, most packing no more wallop and presenting no more danger than a cup of drip coffee...
Union tells Selig it will discuss tougher penalties
(05/03/05)
Twins pitcher Rincon becomes fifth player to test positive for a performance-enhancing substance. The Associated Press NEW YORK -- The baseball players' union told commissioner Bud Selig on Monday that it was willing to talk to him about his call for harsher steroids penalties...
Selig proposes harsher penalties for steroids
(05/01/05)
NEW YORK -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig asked players to agree to a 50-game suspension for first-time steroid offenders and a lifetime ban for a third violation under what he called a "three strikes and you are out approach" to doping. In a letter sent this week to union head Donald Fehr, Selig proposed a 100-game ban for a second offense. ...
NFL ups frequency of offseason tests
(04/27/05)
WASHINGTON -- The NFL is tripling the number of offseason drug tests each player can face, a policy change made public on the eve of today's hearing before congressmen who are already drafting legislation on steroids in sports. Leaders of the House Government Reform Committee, which subpoenaed baseball stars and officials to testify 1 1/2 months ago, are working with Sen. ...
Offenders in minors rises to 47
(04/23/05)
NEW YORK -- Former New York Mets pitcher Grant Roberts was among nine players suspended for 15 games Friday for violating baseball's minor league steroids policy, raising the total this year to 47. Roberts was removed from the Mets major league roster last November, then went to spring training with a minor league contract. The 27-year-old right-hander pitched in one spring training game, pitching a scoreless inning March 6 against Washington, then was released April 14...
Leagues give drug policies to Congress
(04/13/05)
WASHINGTON -- The NBA and NHL were among six groups that turned over documents about their drug-testing policies to the congressional committee looking into steroids in sports. The House Government Reform Committee had set Tuesday as a deadline for getting information about drug programs and test results. ...
Rockies' Piedra is second to get 10-day suspension
(04/12/05)
NEW YORK -- Colorado Rockies outfielder Jorge Piedra was suspended 10 days Monday for violating baseball's new policy on performance-enhancing drugs, becoming the second player to be publicly identified under the major leagues' tougher rules. The suspension begins with the Rockies game at Arizona on Monday night, the commissioner's office said...
38 minor leaguers suspended for steroids
(04/05/05)
SEATTLE -- Seattle's Damian Moss and Ryan Christianson were among 38 players suspended Monday for violating baseball's minor league steroids policy, a group that included eight players from the Mariners' organization. "We're obviously very disappointed and not happy about it at all," Seattle general manager Bill Bavasi said after the Mariners beat Minnesota 5-1. "On the other side of the coin, we're like everybody else. We want this cleaned up."...
Tampa Bay outfielder first to be suspended
(04/04/05)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Tampa Bay outfielder Alex Sanchez was suspended 10 days for violating baseball's new policy on performance-enhancing drugs, the first player publicly identified under the major leagues' tougher rules. The suspension begins Monday when Tampa Bay opens its season against Toronto, the commissioner's office said Sunday...
'60 Minutes' reports use of steroids by Panthers
(03/30/05)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Carolina Panthers Todd Sauerbrun and Jeff Mitchell and former player Todd Steussie had steroid prescriptions filled by a West Columbia, S.C., doctor now under investigation by federal authorities, according to "60 Minutes Wednesday" report...
McGwire's Hall of Fame hopes jeopardized by steroid scandal
(03/25/05)
NEW YORK -- Mark McGwire could miss out on making the Hall of Fame because of baseball's swirling steroids scandal, heightened by his refusal to answer specific questions before Congress, an Associated Press survey showed Thursday. Barry Bonds would get enough support to make it into Cooperstown, but he's far from being a shoo-in, according to results from 155 Hall voters polled this week among the roughly 500 eligible...
Haslett tells of days of widespread steroid use
(03/25/05)
NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans Saints coach Jim Haslett says he used steroids when he starred as a linebacker in the early 1980s, and claims the Pittsburgh Steelers' use of the drugs during Super Bowl championship seasons in the 1970s brought steroids into vogue around the NFL...
Some psychologists say teen abuse may rise after hearing
(03/23/05)
CLEVELAND -- Steroid use among high school students is on the rise, and experts warn that the recent focus on major league baseball's drug problems will only make such use increase. While congressmen who questioned former home run king Mark McGwire and others say their goal was to curb use among teenagers, last week's hearings increased awareness of steroids -- and that will lead more youngsters to try them, said Tracy Olrich, a sports psychologist at Central Michigan University...
Cardinals announcer apologizes for remarks on Helton
(03/22/05)
ST. LOUIS -- Cardinals broadcaster Wayne Hagin has apologized for comments implying that Colorado Rockies All-Star first baseman Todd Helton used steroids, an assertion that Helton angrily denied. In an interview Saturday with St. Louis radio station ESPN 1380, Hagin -- a decade-long broadcaster of Rockies games before coming to St. ...
Big Mac again takes focus off Selig & Co.
(03/22/05)
Bud Selig should send Mark McGwire some flowers and a thank you card. Better yet, take him out to dinner. The way Big Mac has shrunk since we all last saw him a few years ago, it looks like he could use a good meal. He deserves it because Selig and the rest of the flunkies who run major league baseball owe McGwire a big favor for his latest work on behalf of the sport...
MLB drops possible fines for steroids
(03/21/05)
NEW YORK -- Baseball players and owners agreed Sunday to drop the possibility of fines for steroid use, leaving suspensions as the only discipline, according to management's top labor lawyer. Congressmen repeatedly criticized baseball for the fine possibility during Thursday's hearing before the House Government Reform Committee. Management officials told the committee they were willing to eliminate the fine provision, held over from baseball's first drug-testing agreement in 2002...
Lawmakers say they will consider legislation
(03/19/05)
WASHINGTON ) -- Major League Baseball, take note: Congress will be keeping a close eye on you. Far from satisfied after an 11-hour hearing about steroids, lawmakers said Friday they will consider drawing up legislation to make changes to baseball's drug-testing policy if the sport fails to act on its own...
Tight-lipped 'Big Mac' shrinks in the public's eye
(03/19/05)
ST. LOUIS -- Mark McGwire was so popular in St. Louis after his 70-homer season in 1998 that a stretch of Interstate 70 was named after him. Now, a St. Louis congressman who was part of the U.S. House committee questioning the retired slugger and other players over steroids in baseball says McGwire's name should be removed from the highway because he failed to "come clean" on whether he used steroids...
Sluggers vs. Congress
(03/18/05)
By Ronald Blum ~ The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Sitting biceps-to-biceps, some of baseball's biggest stars told Congress on Thursday that steroids are a problem for the sport but denied they are widespread. Mark McGwire nearly came to tears and refused to say whether he took the drugs during the historic home run summer of 1998 or any other time...
Students downplay steroid significance
(03/18/05)
When Mark McGwire was bashing 70 home runs, Jackson's Tyler Beussink pretended to be McGwire in Wiffle ball games. He was 11 years old. When Barry Bonds was breaking McGwire's record, Notre Dame's Dane Balsmann was beginning his high school baseball career...
McGwire will attend hearing today in D.C.
(03/17/05)
By Ronald Blum and Howard Fendrich The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Mark McGwire will join other past and present stars today before a congressional committee investigating steroids in baseball, a spectacle the sport had hoped to avoid just weeks before ...
Congress excuses Yankees' Giambi
(03/16/05)
NEW YORK -- Jason Giambi can concentrate on hitting instead of testifying. The New York Yankees slugger was excused from appearing at Thursday's congressional hearing on steroids in baseball, and the top Democrat on the committee said it's possible other players also could have subpoenas withdrawn...
MLB gives documents to Congress; Selig willing to testify
(03/15/05)
NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball gave a congressional committee about 400 pages of documents on drug testing and said commissioner Bud Selig was willing to testify at Thursday's hearing on steroid use. Lawyers for Jason Giambi, Frank Thomas and Rafael Palmeiro asked the committee to withdraw subpoenas for their clients, and lawyers for players and the commissioner's office continued to negotiate with committee staff Monday, trying to narrow the scope of questioning. ...
Jeremy Giambi says he used steroids
(03/14/05)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Former major leaguer Jeremy Giambi admitted he used steroids, The Kansas City Star reported Sunday. "It's something I did," Giambi told the newspaper. "I apologize. I made a mistake. I moved on. I kind of want it in the past."...
MLB to hand over drug test results to Congress
(03/14/05)
WASHINGTON -- Major League Baseball plans to hand over by today's due date some of the records subpoenaed by the congressional committee investigating steroids in the sport. "We're producing documents by the deadline," Rob Manfred, executive vice president for labor relations in the commissioner's office, told The Associated Press on Sunday night...
Missouri senators back Congress' role in fighting steroids
(03/13/05)
Major League Baseball needs to address steroid use among players, and Congress can assist in this, U.S. Sens. Jim Talent and Kit Bond said Saturday prior to a Cape Girardeau County Republican Lincoln Day dinner in Cape Girardeau. Talent said baseball has stonewalled the issue for too long, and as a result, some young athletes are turning to steroids and putting their health at risk...
Canseco will testify at congressional hearing but first seeks immunity
(03/11/05)
WASHINGTON -- Jose Canseco is willing to tell all before a congressional committee looking into steroids in baseball, but first he wants assurances he won't get in trouble for what he says. Canseco asked Thursday for immunity if he's to testify fully, but a spokesman for the lawmaker who will chair the proceeding offered no promises. Canseco is among seven players summoned to appear at the March 17 hearing of the House Government Reform Committee...
McGwire among those receiving subpoenas from House committee
(03/10/05)
NEW YORK -- Major league baseball responded with outrage to congressional subpoenas for Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi and other top stars, vowing to fight them all the way to court. Curt Schilling, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro and Frank Thomas also were summoned Wednesday to testify at the March 17 hearing of the House Government Reform Committee. ...
Congress plans to subpoena McGwire, others
(03/09/05)
NEW YORK -- Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire and Jason Giambi were among seven current and former baseball stars that a congressional committee plans to subpoena as soon as today to testify about steroids. Sammy Sosa, Frank Thomas, Curt Schilling and Rafael Palmeiro also were asked last week to testify. Thus far, only Canseco and Thomas have said they were willing to appear...
Steroids give an unfair advantage
(02/28/05)
To the editor: Last week Jose Canseco published a book about steroid use. Even though it is still cheating, it tells me that athletes can use drugs to help their performance. It is an unfair advantage over athletes who didn't use steroids. It is the responsibility of the coaches, trainers and players to uphold the rules. I hope our local high school coaches are not giving in to steroids for their players just to have another "w" in the win column...
Time for a few asterisks?
(02/20/05)
Everybody is all juiced up over Jose Conseco. Baseball is all upset because Conseco has gone public about his own use of steroids. Why that came as a surprise is hard to understand, but organized baseball is acting as if they are aghast at the revelation...
La Russa- Canseco said in Oakland that he had 'helper'
(02/17/05)
NEW YORK -- Jose Canseco bragged about not having to work out as hard as other players on the Oakland Athletics because he had a "helper," his former manager, Tony La Russa, said in an interview with "60 Minutes Wednesday." La Russa managed Canseco and the Athletics to three consecutive AL pennants from 1988 to 1990, winning the World Series in 1989. ...
Steroids still occupy center stage as players report to camps
(02/16/05)
Usually, the start of spring training is a time of clean slates, sun-splashed fields and endless hope. Not this year. Steroids were the No. 1 topic Tuesday, when the new Washington Nationals, the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds opened camp...
Canseco's tell-all book sells briskly on first day
(02/15/05)
NEW YORK -- Jose Canseco's autobiography accusing several top players of steroid use and charging that baseball long ignored peformance-enhancing drugs appeared to be a hit on its first day in bookstores. Amazon.com listed "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big" as third on its best seller list Monday...
If innocent, McGwire should bash back in court
(02/14/05)
It's put up or shut up time for baseball's most suspected steroid users: Sue Jose Canseco for libel or stop the denials and evasions of his accusations that they juiced up just as he did. If they're all so innocent, they ought to join together in a lawsuit -- Baseball Hulks vs. Canseco and his publisher, HarperCollins...
Selig confident baseball's policy on steroids will have impact
(02/10/05)
Josh Dubow
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -- Commissioner Bud Selig is confident that baseball's new steroid policy will be in place when spring training opens next week and dismissed criticism that it does not go far enough to rid the game of...
Baseball's silence on steroids gives Canseco a voice
(02/10/05)
Every word in Jose Canseco's book could be true. Or only a few. Either way, it's exactly what baseball deserves. Just about everybody else involved in the game tripped over themselves trying to blur the lines between fair and foul for the last 15 years or so. By default, that makes even a convicted criminal and shameless publicity hound like Canseco as reliable a source as any other. It's what happens when honest men keep quiet...
Canseco's book puts president, players on the spot
(02/08/05)
The former slugger's tell-all book pulls everyone from President George W. Bush to Mark McGwire into the steroids fray. The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Bush was not aware of any steroid use by Texas Rangers players while he was a team executive, the White House said Monday...
MLB adopts random testing for steroids, harsher penalties
(01/14/05)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- With some of its biggest stars under suspicion and lawmakers demanding action, Major League Baseball adopted a tougher steroid-testing program that will suspend first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly test players year-round...
Owners, players reach agreement on steroid testing
(01/13/05)
NEW YORK -- Baseball players and owners have reached an agreement on a tougher steroid-testing program and plan to announce it today, The Associated Press has learned. The agreement will include penalties for first-time offenders, an American League player said on condition of anonymity. Other details, such as the frequency of tests, were not immediately available...
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