Another Chance for Baseball to Settle Its Score With Drugs
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This article was reported by Lee Jenkins, Juliet Macur and Bill Pennington and written by Mr. Jenkins. During a year that baseball would like to forget, the scene was set for its free fall.
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com. On Tuesday, the executive board of the Major League Baseball Players Association authorized its representatives to move forward &quot;to attempt to conclude&quot; a more stringent drug policy
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Major League Baseball has introduced a  Department of Investigations to lead the fight against drugs in  the sport, it said on Friday. The new department will have  "primary responsibility for conducting all investigations into  violations of Major League Baseball's rules and policies," said  an MLB statement.
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Major League Baseball and its players union will begin meetings today in Manhattan that could lead to a more stringent drug-testing policy.
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If anything, there will be a little more sizzle around the ballpark. There won't be so much focus on Julio Lugo's slump, or J.D. Drew's batting average, or Curt Schilling's injury, or the fact that there's not much of a race in the American League East right now.
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Baseball can be so fickle. The line between the daring and defeatist is precariously thin, blurred by intangible factors, altered by blind providence.
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Sport: Report on steroid use in US baseball expected to name 80 players as performance-enhancing drug users
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Baseball&#39;s players union must step up to diffuse the growing drug-enhancement scandal that has gripped the nation&#39;s pastime.
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Major League Baseball asked yesterday to meet with Rick Ankiel and Troy Glaus after the pair were accused of receiving performance-enhancing drugs from a Florida pharmacy under investigation for illegally distributing prescription medications.
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Two recent events have me thinking that maybe we put too much importance on winning in sports. First, there were reports that baseball superstars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi took steroids, drugs that can help make players stronger.
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Major League Baseball and the players'  association have agreed to discuss recommendations from a  report exposing widespread steroid use that could lead to a  further crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs.
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As moderate as George Mitchellâs report was, it had no power to force baseball to upgrade its testing and penalties. Labor and management still have to work out the next steps.
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Dozens of players are linked to banned substances, as a report on Major League Baseball alleges a serious drug culture.
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Major League Baseball will randomly  drug test players year round and expand the number of banned  substances to include human growth hormone THG, diuretics and  steroids, the organization said on Thursday.
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Baseball is finally coming to grips with the steroid epidemic that has plagued the game for years, and its ramifications are already being felt by the O's and Nats.
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Reports of substance abuse by top competitors in the baseball and cycling worlds remind us once again that it is important to keep athletic heroics in their proper perspective.
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Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids.