WASHINGTON -- Major League Baseball is toeing the foul line. Members of the congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform are still far from convinced that MLB can wage a successful, long-term war on performance-enhancing drugs, but the consensus among committee members following Tuesday's hearing was that they heard just enough so that legislative intervention will not be immediately forthcoming.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, union head Donald Fehr and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell testified about baseball's steroids issue before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday. SI.com's Michael McCann answers the key questions.
George Mitchell, the senator-turned-baseball-investigator who last month linked dozens of players to steroid use, on Tuesday told a House committee that he firmly believes the former trainer who says he injected pitching ace Roger Clemens with performance enhancers.
In the opener of Congress' baseball/steroids doubleheader, baseball commissioner Bud Selig, union head Donald Fehr and former Senate majority leader George Mitchell are to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday. SI.com's Michael McCann answers the key questions.
Viewpoint: The House helped baseball begin to crack down on steroids three years ago. But by stepping into the Roger Clemens mess, Washington can only strike out
Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were asked Friday to testify before a congressional committee on Jan. 16, along with their former trainer, Brian McNamee
This is great news, really. It turns out baseball doesn't really have a steroid problem at all. Never did.
Roger Clemens' denials are getting louder and somehow less convincing as he attempts to extricate himself from the steroid allegations made against him in the bombshell, worth-every-penny Mitchell Report that contains 8 1/2 pages of compelling, detailed evidence against the would-be Hall of Famer.
Only through a tiny keyhole could George Mitchell view the dimly lit room of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, his scope constricted by a stiff code of silence among union members and a drug policy crafted and administered by the commissioner's office and the union to be opaque where convenient rather than fully transparent. Even thus blinkered, the former U.S. senator got as roguishly ugly a glimpse of baseball as ever has been seen.
He's been a federal judge. He served in the U.S. Senate for a dozen years, including a six-year term as Majority Leader. He helped broker a peace deal in Northern Ireland. He was once tipped as a Supreme Court nominee. But it's hard to imagine that George Mitchell had ever endured more scrutiny and attention than he did on Thursday when he released his long-awaited report, a 400-plus-page documentation on baseball's Steroid Era. With backlash just beginning, Mitchell sat down on Friday afternoon with SI.com.
WASHINGTON -- Major League Baseball is toeing the foul line. Members of the congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform are still far from convinced that MLB can wage a successful, long-term war on performance-enhancing drugs, but the consensus among committee members following Tuesday's hearing was that they heard just enough so that legislative intervention will not be immediately forthcoming.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, union head Donald Fehr and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell testified about baseball's steroids issue before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday. SI.com's Michael McCann answers the key questions.
George Mitchell, the senator-turned-baseball-investigator who last month linked dozens of players to steroid use, on Tuesday told a House committee that he firmly believes the former trainer who says he injected pitching ace Roger Clemens with performance enhancers.
In the opener of Congress' baseball/steroids doubleheader, baseball commissioner Bud Selig, union head Donald Fehr and former Senate majority leader George Mitchell are to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday. SI.com's Michael McCann answers the key questions.
Viewpoint: The House helped baseball begin to crack down on steroids three years ago. But by stepping into the Roger Clemens mess, Washington can only strike out
Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were asked Friday to testify before a congressional committee on Jan. 16, along with their former trainer, Brian McNamee
This is great news, really. It turns out baseball doesn't really have a steroid problem at all. Never did.
Roger Clemens' denials are getting louder and somehow less convincing as he attempts to extricate himself from the steroid allegations made against him in the bombshell, worth-every-penny Mitchell Report that contains 8 1/2 pages of compelling, detailed evidence against the would-be Hall of Famer.
Only through a tiny keyhole could George Mitchell view the dimly lit room of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, his scope constricted by a stiff code of silence among union members and a drug policy crafted and administered by the commissioner's office and the union to be opaque where convenient rather than fully transparent. Even thus blinkered, the former U.S. senator got as roguishly ugly a glimpse of baseball as ever has been seen.
He's been a federal judge. He served in the U.S. Senate for a dozen years, including a six-year term as Majority Leader. He helped broker a peace deal in Northern Ireland. He was once tipped as a Supreme Court nominee. But it's hard to imagine that George Mitchell had ever endured more scrutiny and attention than he did on Thursday when he released his long-awaited report, a 400-plus-page documentation on baseball's Steroid Era. With backlash just beginning, Mitchell sat down on Friday afternoon with SI.com.
A lawyer for Roger Clemens strongly denies the seven-time Cy Young Award winner used steroids to pump up his body and his pitching statistics.
SI.com spoke with two legal experts to get a deeper understanding of the Mitchell Report, its fallout and what the next steps should be. Eric Delinsky, a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder in Washington, D.C., is a white collar criminal litigation attorney. The other is Robert J. Kheel, who taught a course on Sports and the Law at Columbia Law School and is a partner in the litigation department at Wilkie Farr & Gallagher in New York emphasizing on sports and labor law. (Wilkie was a former representative for MLB in labor negotiations in the 1980s and early 1990s and handled some litigation for MLB earlier this decade. Kheel represented MLB in some drug grievances cases in the 1980s.)
After three news conferences, almost 80 named players, more than 300 pages and just one brave soul in an entire union, what are we to make of the Mitchell Report? Glad you asked. Here's the nuts and bolts of it.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Page after page, Roger Clemens' name was all over the Mitchell Report.
Twenty-one months ago, when George Mitchell undertook what everyone said was an impossible task, critics were suggesting he'd strike out with his steroid investigation. As it turns out, even without a solid investigative performance enhancer such as subpoena power, Mitchell still delivered a home run.
At this point, now that George Mitchell has finished administering baseball's public and self-appointed flagellation, the easy thing for Bud Selig to do would be to head back to his office, lick his wounds and look forward to making more gobs of money next season. Discipline the drug cheats named in Mitchell's voluminous report? Drag out this thing more? What good would that do? Can't we all just move along already?
Dozens of stars have been named in the investigation into baseball's "Steroid Era" by former Sen. George Mitchell. Here is a complete list of players, past and present, "linked to performance-enhancing substances":
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With the release of the Mitchell Report today, here are some key legal questions facing Major League Baseball and the players named in the report.
Sen. George Mitchell has unveiled the findings of his 20-month long investigation into the use of steroids in baseball. Please take a moment to answer the following questions.
Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens and Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte were the first names to emerge Thursday from the Mitchell report
Twenty months after former Maine Senator and statesman George Mitchell accepted the responsibility to investigate baseball's steroid problem, he is set to release his findings at a 2 p.m. news conference on Thursday. Early indications are that the long-awaited Mitchell Report will be a bombshell, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 to 70 players to be named as steroid users, according to several high-ranking team officials.
George Mitchell's report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball has been hanging over the game for more than a year and a half now. So it's probably not surprising that, as the former U.S. Senator readies to make his findings public -- reportedly later this week, or certainly sometime before Christmas -- the overwhelming emotion around baseball is not one of fear or apprehension, but of impending relief.
Former Senator George J. Mitchell will soon produce his much-anticipated report about the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs by Major League Baseball players. As speculation swirls as to which players might be named, the report also poses a number of intriguing legal issues.
Baseball steroids investigator George Mitchell wanted to speak to 45 current or former players as of last month, according to a letter written by a players' union lawyer, The New York Times reported.
Kirk Radomski, the former Mets clubhouse attendant who admitted selling steroids to scores of major leaguers, recently has provided names of users in a meeting with baseball's lead steroid investigator, George Mitchell, SI.com has learned.
Barry Bonds' record achievement on Tuesday night was historical and perhaps even inspirational, just like Hank Aaron graciously said up on the big board in San Francisco afterward. It was also uncomfortable and unhappy for most folks who follow baseball.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Yankees slugger Jason Giambi met with George Mitchell on Friday, becoming the first active player known to talk with baseball's steroids investigator.
Jason Giambi's agreement to talk to baseball's steroids investigator George Mitchell allows him to avoid talking specifically about any other players' steroid usage, but Major League Baseball officials are still holding out hope they may learn something more about Barry Bonds' possible involvement through Giambi's testimony, according to people familiar with the situation.
Bud Selig, in a Humphrey Bogart kind of way, is putting the screws to Jason Giambi. That might sound like some 1940s private eye flick, complete with the good guys in fedoras and Giambi under the hot glare of an interrogation lamp. But truth be told, it's probably not that far off.
Almost a year into Major League Baseball's investigation into its sordid steroids past, all exit signs seem to be pointing toward the one place that nobody really wants to go: Back to Capitol Hill, under the klieg lights, in front of a bunch of made-for-TV politicians looking for truth, blood and some face time on the evening news.
Last June, during a 6-21 stretch of amateurish baseball that effectively put the brakes on the Braves' streak of 14 straight division titles, it wasn't hard to figure out exactly what was wrong in Atlanta. The bullpen, a huge worry for the team since spring training, was undeniably and unequivocally awful. That month, the 'pen had five blown saves, a 1-5 record and a 5.13 ERA.
Walt Disney Co. Wednesday named ex-Procter & Gamble CEO and Disney director John Pepper as non-executive chairman, succeeding former Senator George Mitchell.
What's going on with Mrs. Market? (Yes, a SHE!) We get close to the Dow record, then we get scared off. Makes sense to me actually ... too much inflation for my taste.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke on Wednesday. Whatever his fate, it is bound to reverberate through Israeli politics. Sharon's illness comes just months before a crucial election in March. In that vote, the fate of Sharon's newly formed centrist political party, Kadima, hangs in the balance.
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