Baseball to bolster steroid testing
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PHOENIX -- Baseball players gave their lawyers the go-ahead yesterday to reach an agreement with owners on tougher testing for steroids.
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A Tufts University physicist finds that steroids could increase home runs for a professional baseball player by 50 percent.
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SALINAS, Calif. -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said in meetings Monday that he would accept government intervention on steroid testing if the players&#39; association refuses to change the current rules, which run for two more years.
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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 Thursday.
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NEW YORK -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said Monday he would accept government intervention on steroid testing if the players&#39; association refuses to change the current rules, which run for two more years.
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Major League Baseball officials have taken steps to contact federal investigators involved in a crackdown on the import of Chinese steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to determine whether baseball players are entangled in the probe, an MLB spokesman said yesterday.
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PHOENIX (Sports Network) - The Major League Baseball  Players Association announced Tuesday it would work toward a  new agreement with owners for tougher steroid testing.
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Major League Baseball (MLB) will implement new clubhouse security measures based on the recommendations of last month's Mitchell Report into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport, officials said on Monday.
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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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WASHINGTON  - US Senator John McCain warned that Congress may consider imposing drug tests on major league baseball players, as Washington tries to stem the damage from a raging doping scandal that has discredited professional sport.
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Major League Baseball and the players association said Monday that the leaders of the two sides have outlined a new drug-testing program that would be significantly more stringent than the existing policy.
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The report on performance-enhancing drug use in baseball outlines a general road map for improving its drug testing system, but prescribes no timetable and few specific directives.
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The Olympic governing body on Sunday  promised to escalate its anti-doping fight by increasing  surprise out-of-competition drug tests and improving the  quality of testing.
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Representative Henry Waxman, the chairman of a House oversight committee may call baseball players to testify at a hearing on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.
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(CBS/AP) Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he will introduce legislation imposing drug testing standards on professional athletes if baseball players and owners do not adopt a stringent crackdown on steroids by January, The
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PHOENIX - Baseball players gave their lawyers the go-ahead Tuesday to reach an agreement with owners on tougher testing for steroids.
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Baseball is about to be offered some much-needed help pulling its head out of the sand.