Baseball Adds Department To Investigate Drug Use
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Major League Baseball has created a department of investigations to look into allegations of illegal drug use by players, among other things.
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Yankees slugger Jason Giambi has agreed to be interviewed as part of former Senator George Mitchell's probe into use of performance-enhancing substances in Major League Baseball, MLB announced on Thursday.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - Officials from Major League Baseball and the players&#39; union have reportedly discussed a new drug testing policy that could go into effect for the 2005 season.
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The Mitchell Report named 88 former or current major league players and detailed their involvement with performance-enhancing substances. A look at each player with the year he was first associated with the drugs, the team he played for at the time, and the connection to the banned substances.
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Baseball Representatives of former Senator George Mitchell's commission examining illicit steroid use in Major League Baseball are scheduled to meet today with Albany County (N.Y.) prosecutors, who are investigating a nationwide drug distribution network. In their first meeting in March, prosecutors said they did not turn over any player names. Prosecutors and investigators have spent months sifting through thousands of ...
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As of mid-August, baseballâs investigators looking into the use of performance-enhancing drugs still wanted to speak with at least 45 current and former major league players, most of them still active.
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When representatives from Major League Baseball met with members of the Albany, N.Y., district attorney's office Monday they were looking to get a better handle on the investigation into an extensive prescription-drug distribution ring, a probe that already has seen a number of major league players linked to the purchase of performance-enhancing drugs.
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An official involved with negotiations between Major League Baseball and the players association said yesterday that the leaders of the two sides had outlined a new drug-testing program that
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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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Attention. Attention. On the subject of drug testing, Major League Baseball wishes to announce it is now joining the 21st 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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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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This week's steroid raid is a direct result of an expanding collaboration between federal, state and local law enforcement with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
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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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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 officials wanted to learn what kind of performance-enhancing drugs the slugger used.
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Barry Bonds and other players under suspicion of using performance enhancing drugs have been asked by Major League Baseball's lead steroids investigator to turn over medical records and submit to interviews.
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As the use of performance-enhancing substances draws concern from the halls of Congress to the offices of high school coaches, prosecutors have turned their targets into partners in a broader endeavor.