Report To Detail Drug Use In Baseball
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The long-awaited Mitchell Report will lay blame at all levels of baseball for a widespread drug problem and call for drastic changes.
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The following are some of the drugs named in the Mitchell Report that baseball players are accused of using.
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Baseball's drug problem grew thornier yesterday as Congress asked the Justice Department to investigate former American League MVP Miguel Tejada for possibly lying about steroid use and cited a sudden spike in the number of major leaguers who have received medical exemptions to use banned amphetamines.
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Former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell released his report on steroid use in Major League Baseball today and said the use of performance-enhancing drugs within the sport was "widespread" for more than a decade.
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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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Dozens of baseball stars from Barry Bonds to Roger Clemens were named on Thursday in the long-awaited Mitchell Report on steroids use, which Major League Baseball hopes will help clean its tarnished image.
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A report chronicling widespread steroid  use in U.S. Major League Baseball has saddened longtime fans  but left them hopeful firm action will be taken now that the  scale of the problem is out in the open.
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We now know what it takes to break through the institutional indifference of Major League Baseball to the drug abuse among its players, including its biggest stars.
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Attention. Attention. On the subject of drug testing, Major League Baseball wishes to announce it is now joining the 20th century. And only five years late. But do we quibble at this point or applaud? The sport made a genuine move on steroids. Too bad it required a scandal, threats from Congress and many ill-gotten numbers, to force the issue.
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Dozens of baseball stars from Barry Bonds to Roger Clemens were named on Thursday in the long-awaited Mitchell Report on steroids use, which U.S. Major League Baseball hopes will help clean its tarnished image.
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Major League Baseball launched a department of investigations Friday, a permanent branch of the commissioner's office. In his report last month on drug use in baseball, George Mitchell had recommended the formation of the unit. Adopting another of Mitchell's recommendations, MLB is establishing a tip line for team employees to make the commissioner's office aware of violations of drug, betting and other rules.
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Baseball&#39;s long-simmering drugs scandal burst open yesterday, with the reported admission by the star New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi that he used a cocktail of steroids for the three seasons between 2001 and 2003.
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If baseball should do something about the records of players who used steroids, why not teams as well?
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IT&#39;S TIME for Major League Baseball -- and its players union -- to agree to get tough on steroids by adopting a zero-tolerance policy that requires more frequent testing and ever-harsher penalties for those who use -- and continue to abuse -- such
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In the wake of leaked grand jury testimony that implicated superstars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi in the BALCO steroid scandal, Major League Baseball and the Players Association may be close to forging a tougher new policy on drug testing.
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Baseball and its players' union announce they have reached agreement on a drug-testing policy that includes out-of-season testing and penalties for first offenses.
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The House committee conducting hearings on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball wants to probe statements the shortstop made in 2005.