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During his Sunday interview with Mike Wallace on "60 Minutes," baseball superstar Roger Clemens was defiant in denying he had ever used performance-enhancing drugs. ...more
January 8, 2008
After spending 30 years as a head athletic trainer in Major League Baseball, the recent Mitchell Report was of interest to me. ...more
January 4, 2008
Jose Canseco, Lenny Dykstra, Glenallen Hill and Geronimo Berroa were accused of using steroids by former major-league pitcher Jason Grimsley in a federal agent's affidavit unsealed Thursday. ...more
December 21, 2007
Roger Clemens denied allegations by his former trainer that he took performance-enhancing drugs. ...more
December 18, 2007
Andy Pettitte used human growth hormone to recover from an elbow injury in 2002, the New York Yankees pitcher said two days after he was cited in the Mitchell Report. ...more
December 15, 2007
NEW YORK George Mitchell insisted naming names was the right decision and said he was prepared for Roger Clemens and others to deny they used performance-enhancing drugs. ...more
December 15, 2007
Players, Game Tainted Regarding "Report Blames All Corners Of Baseball" (front page, Dec. 14): ...more
December 15, 2007
What does this report mean? Former Sen. George Mitchell's investigation concluded that baseball had experienced a "collective failure" to deal with the problem of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. The report named 86 players, including All-Stars Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Miguel Tejada, as connected to the use or possession of steroids or other performance enhancers. The list also included eight players (Barry Bonds and Gary Sheffield among them) whose names were linked to the BALCO investigation. Several other players were alluded to but not named within the report. Mitchell recommended that Major League Baseball employ an independent party to conduct future drug testing, that the program should be transparent and the scope should expand to year-round testing. ...more
December 14, 2007
A 21-month investigation into use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball concluded Thursday that a culture of secrecy and permissiveness gave rise to a "steroids era" in the game that included some of its biggest names, most prominent among them superstar pitcher Roger Clemens. ...more
December 14, 2007
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