Fans: Punish baseball report's drug users

 
With former senator George Mitchell's long-awaited report on performance-enhancing drug use in baseball will be released Thursday, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows a majority of baseball fans believe Commissioner Bud Selig should punish players who are identified in the report as having used steroids. [link]

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