Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has issued a warning that baseball star, Alex Rodriguez, could face a suspension in the wake of his admission.

Selig said to USA Today, “It was against the law, so I would have to think about that,” Selig told the newspaper. “It’s very hard. I’ve got to think about all that kind of stuff.”

From Espnstar.com:

Steroids and human growth hormone officially were placed on baseball’s banned substance prior to the 2004 season so any attempt to penalise a player for an infraction beforehand would almost certainly be challenged by the players union.

“I would be surprised if there was an attempt to do it,” said Donald Fehr, the union’s executive director.

Rodriguez admitted his use of steroids in an interview with ESPN on Monday – two days after Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003.

According to the report, Rodriguez’s name appeared on a list of 104 players who tested positive during a survey conducted by Major League Baseball in 2003.

Selig also said he is mulling reinstating Hank Aaron as baseball’s career home run leader.

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The efforts of Mark McGwire for reducing the extent of his decade-long doping program seem to be as inauthentic as his home run records.

The records of McGwire are under scrutiny ever since a California steroid dealer handed Mark McGwire a sophisticated array of super-potent anabolic steroid almost twenty years ago.

From NYdailynews.com:

That’s not only the reaction of Jose Canseco, who lashed out at his former Bash Brother on Tuesday during an interview with ESPN 1000 radio in Chicago. It’s also the reaction of an FBI informant who was involved in Operation Equine, a long-running investigation that uncovered McGwire’s use of hard-core drugs.

The needles were thick, the anabolic steroids were potent, and the injections were frequent and furtive. McGwire kept them secret for more than 15 years, and now – like Alex Rodriguez before him – claims not to remember exactly what he took in those “small doses.”

Insisting on anonymity, the informant of FBI revealed McGwire’s regimen was one-half cc of testosterone cypionate every three days; one cc of testosterone enanthate per week; the veterinary steroids Equipoise and Winstrol V, one quarter cc every three days, injected into the buttocks, one in one cheek, one in the other.

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Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner, has warned that Alex Rodriguez may face a suspension in the wake of his admission.

Selig said in an interview with USA Today. “It was against the law, so I would have to think about that,” Selig told the newspaper. “It’s very hard. I’ve got to think about all that kind of stuff.”

From Espnstar.com:

One obstacle to meting out punishment for the New York Yankees‘ third baseman is the time frame of his admitted guilt.

Steroids and human growth hormone officially were placed on baseball’s banned substance prior to the 2004 season so any attempt to penalise a player for an infraction beforehand would almost certainly be challenged by the players union.

“I would be surprised if there was an attempt to do it,” said Donald Fehr, the union’s executive director.

Rodriguez admitted his use of steroids in an interview with ESPN on Monday – two days after Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003.

According to the report, Rodriguez’s name appeared on a list of 104 players who tested positive during a survey conducted by Major League Baseball in 2003.

Selig also said that he is mulling reinstating Hank Aaron as baseball’s career home run leader.

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Police officers and corrections officers, who received anabolic steroids from Jersey City physician Joseph Colao, have been named in at least five lawsuits alleging brutality or violations of civil rights.

Other officers, accused of obtaining steroids from the doctor, were fired, suspended or arrested for allegedly engaging in bad conduct on or off the job.

From NJ.com:

In August 2007, Jersey City resident Mathias Bolton called police to report a possible break-in at his apartment building. Bolton, 37, claims the first officer on the scene, Victor Vargas, mistook him for a burglar and, in a rage fueled by steroids, repeatedly punched him, threw him against the wall, dragged him from the building’s vestibule and pushed him down a flight of stairs to the sidewalk.

Other officers, among them Michael Stise, continued to beat Bolton as he lay on the ground, the suit states. The officers charged Bolton with resisting arrest and aggravated assault on a police officer. The counts were later dropped.

Court documents filed in the case show Vargas, 33, and Stise, 30, were taking anabolic steroids and human growth hormone prescribed by Colao. The officers deny in legal papers doing anything wrong, saying they identified themselves and repeatedly ordered Bolton to stop resisting.

The lawyers of Vargas and Stise wrote, “Given the broad hostility to athletes who abuse steroids — Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Manny (Ramirez) are widely hated — a jury that hears steroid evidence could readily misfire.”

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Mark McGwire, the retired US baseball star and home run machine, recently admitted of making use of steroids during his career including the time when he conquered the home run record in 1998.

The baseball slugger said he used steroids on-and-off for a decade and tendered an apology to every one hurted by his behavior.

From News.bbc.co.uk:

“I used steroids during my playing career and I apologise,” McGwire said in a statement published on the Major League Baseball (MLB) website.

“I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989-1990 offseason and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.

“I used them on occasion throughout the 90s, including during the 1998 season. I wish I had never touched steroids.”

He added: “It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologise. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era.”

Correspondents say McGwire’s reputation has been in question since 2005, when he refused to answer questions on illegal drug use at a Congressional hearing.

During the hearing he repeatedly said he was “not here to talk about the past” when asked whether he took illegal steroids when he hit the then-record 70 home runs in 1998 or at any other time.

This confession followed a similar steroid use admission by Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees in 2009.

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Henry Aaron, considered by almost every one as the true home run king, recently urged for a ban on cheaters in the game of baseball and Hall of Fame.

The baseball player said he wants to expose the list of 104 players testing positive in baseball’s confidential drug tests in 2003 that includes big names like Sammy Sosa and Alex Rodriguez.

From Blogs.ajc.com:

Aaron is right. It’s understandable that many have grown weary of steroids stories. But baseball never truly can move on until we understand the extent of what happened in the past.

That said, Aaron’s candidness seemed stunning. He largely had maintained a low profile on the subject, particularly during Barry Bonds’ chase of his career home run record. When I mentioned that to him, he laughed.

“Well, I’ve always felt this way,” he said. “There was just so much being said about it, I figured I would just kind of step back and listen. I didn’t want to open up any more doors that hadn’t already been opened. But when somebody asked me a question [Saturday] about, ‘Well, how do we handle this if a player from the steroid era is voted in,’ I just answered it. But I haven’t been losing any sleep at night.”

Asterisks won’t be necessary if suspected cheaters aren’t voted in. Hall of Fame voters have made their feelings clear on Mark McGwire. He has been on the ballot for three years and hasn’t received more than 23 percent of the vote (75 is needed).

Aaron hit 755 home runs. He did it the right way. He knows the difference between real and fantasy.

Aaron hit 755 home runs. He did it the right way. He knows the difference between real and fantasy.

Aaron also said his statements in relation to asterisks are meant only for those players who have been suspected of using performance enhancing drugs.

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The Harvard Law School recently presented a star-studded lineup of baseball authorities in a panel discussion about the growing role of baseball agents.

This panel included big names such as Scott Boras who was joined by panelists Donald M. Fehr, executive director of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Players Association, sportswriter Jerry Crasnick, and Executive Vice President of Major League Baseball Rob Manfred.

From Thecrimson.com:

“I think it’s an important part of the game that really gets overlooked sometimes,” Crasnick said after the event. “A guy like [Boras] has had an enormous effect on the game.”

The issue of steroid use in baseball has dominated off-the-field headlines for the past several years and particularly in recent weeks, following major league commissioner Allan H. “Bud” Selig’s announcement of an extensive investigation into steroid use.

But steroids took a backseat to discussion about agents and economics yesterday.

“I think it’s an issue that the average fan doesn’t care about as much as Congress and the media does,” Crasnick said. “Find me one person who says, ‘I’m not going to buy tickets to the game because I’m sick of the steroid issue.’”

After the event, Boras jokingly acknowledged that local students might take a special interest in his visit to the University.

“Coming to Boston, the Johnny Damon issue was going to be at the forefront of a few people’s minds,” Boras said. “But the job of a good attorney for his client is to wear the horns of the negotiation.”

Boras is well known in the baseball circles for negotiating the highest paying contract for the New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez at $252 million for ten years.

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The seventh and youngest player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 career home runs, Alex Rodriguez, is still under a lot of pressure to prove critics wrong who often find it amusing to link A-Rod with anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs.

It is believed by some that the 600th home run may just not be enough for A-Rod to gain an easy entry into the Hall of Fame once he becomes eligible five years after retirement.

From NYtimes.com:

Rodriguez is part of a quartet of sluggers who carry the scarlet letter S on their broad backs. The retired stars Barry Bonds (the career leader with 762 homers), Sammy Sosa (609) and Mark McGwire (583) are all linked, to one degree or another, to performance-enhancing drugs.

They are stacked up in the stratosphere, waiting to see if the writers who vote for membership in the Hall will ultimately accept them. At the moment, there are no guarantees. McGwire, who has been eligible for four years, eked his way up to 24 percent in January, far short of the 75 percent needed for admission.

This overt withholding of honor is the legacy of a steroid era that began in the last decade, when McGwire, Sosa and Bonds all had surprisingly high home run totals at ages when most great sluggers are tailing off. Steroids were illegal by federal law and by edict of Major League Baseball, although no testing was in place during their peak years.

On his own, Rodriguez brought up his link with steroids Wednesday after the Yankees defeated Toronto, 5-1, at Yankee Stadium.

People still doubt me and my performance because of what happened in the past, Rodriguez told Suzyn Waldman of WCBS Radio.

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Barry Bonds is one player that cannot be out of action for long and was recently seen in San Francisco looking fit in his familiar No. 25.

Even though the undisguised contempt by national news media for Bonds is well known, the Giants took pride in inviting Bonds back as he is San Francisco’s baseball hero.

From NYTimes.com:

It was a great day for the Giants, who beat the Phillies, and for Major League Baseball, too, as it inches closer to a new era beyond steroids. But before that happens, baseball must properly close the previous chapter.

There was that uncomfortable August evening in 2007 when, in the bottom of the fifth inning, Bonds hit his 756th home run, passing Hank Aaron as the home run king.

The commissioner was in the stands, and he stood but kept his hands in his pockets. Selig did not clap and showed little emotion except, perhaps, relief.

Those seem like ancient days now. Alex Rodriguez was being hailed as the prince who would rescue baseball from Bonds, when Bonds was painted as the face of baseball’s steroid scandal. What we know now is that baseball was sitting atop a volcano of infectious steroid revelations.

The game of baseball has been left tarnished by news breakouts of baseball sluggers suspected of, or admitted to, using or receiving steroids or HGH during their time with the team but fans still admire their idols who have provided enough entertainment to them.

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Dick Butkus, the Hall of Fame linebacker, who was renowned for playing with a menacing fury, is putting his passion into the fight against steroids.

The association between steroids and sports disgusts me, says Butkus. The former Chicago Bear is tackling the problem by delivering a message on the dangers of doping with his “I Play Clean” campaign aimed at high-school students.

From in.reuters.com:

Last month’s admission by baseball’s highest-paid player Alex Rodriguez that he had taken steroids from 2001-2003 while with the Texas Rangers, shone the light again on performance-enhancing drugs in sports, something Butkus abhors.

“As an ex-football guy, I still enjoy watching it,” the gruff Butkus told Reuters in a telephone interview.

“It just disgusts me and I hope it doesn’t come to a point where I’m sitting there watching a Senate hearing and have them drilling some ex-football players on their steroids habit,” he said, referring to baseball’s appearance before Congress. “I want to lick this before that happens.”

The NFL has had its share of steroids cheats, notably San Diego Chargers Pro-Bowl linebacker Shawne Merriman, suspended for four games in 2006, and now-retired 1997 Defensive Player of the Year Dana Stubblefield, sentenced last month to two years’ probation for lying to investigators about his steroid use.

Butkus has learned over time that use of steroids could result in heart damage among its other dangers.

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