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maurybrown.com - 3/28/2008
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MLB and the MLBPA are about to make
more changes to the drug testing policy in baseball....
As they say, blood is thicker than water. These changes (and the ones in the past) are coming from Big Brother: Congress
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Stickball: How More Changes to MLB’s Drug Policy are ...
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bizofbaseball.com - 3/29/2008
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On Sunday, when the new Nationals Park opens,
President Bush will be part of the celebration as...
he throws out the first pitch. But, it will be manager Manny Acta that will be behind homeplate, not Nationals catcher Paul Lo Duca , who was named in the Mitchell Report.
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Bush League: President Didnt Choose Acta Over Lo Duca
bizofbaseball.com - 3/23/2008
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The issue of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League
Baseball will have little, if any, effect on how...
fans of the game plan to attend games, and make purchases of MLB merchandise, according to a poll released by conducted by Seton Hall University and the Sharkey Institute. The poll, which comes shortly after the release of the Mitchell Report and the scandal between Roger Clemens and his ...
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What Steroid Problem? Poll Finds Fans Not Discouraged
bizofbaseball.com - 3/26/2008
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The lines were easily noticeable when Roger Clemens
and Brian McNamee testified before Congress in mid-February: Republicans...
supported Clemens, while Democrats sided with McNamee. Now, the partisan nature of the Clemens v. McNamee testimony has moved further along. The top Republican on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Tom Davis , issued a 109-page report that ...
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A Splitter on Clemens? Rep. Davis Discredits McNamee
bizofbaseball.com - 3/27/2008
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Here's something that should be extremely interesting to
watch. PBS's American Experience series premieres "Roberto Clemente," a...
one-hour documentary about baseball's first Latino superstar. Clemente was not only an outstanding player, but was a committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination.
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PBS To Air One-Hour Documentary on Clemente
bizofbaseball.com - 3/1/2008
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Derek Jeter says he’s for it, and now,
Donald Fehr of the MLB Players’ Association said he...
will consider it. As pressure continues to run unabated in the wake of the release of the Mitchell Report, Fehr said yesterday that if an efficient and effective testing procedure was created that allowed for testing of substances, such as hGH over time, then he would consider approving it. ...
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Blood Testing in MLB? Fehr Would "Take a Hard ...
bizofbaseball.com - 3/19/2008
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The New York Yankees will play an exhibition
game against Virginia Tech today in Blacksburg in honor...
of the 32 students killed on campus in April of last year, when a gunman went of a shooting rampage. The game will be played at 3PM ET, and is available for free on MLB.TV .
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Yankees Game Against Virginia Tech, Free on MLB.TV
bizofbaseball.com - 3/25/2008
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Lawyers for MLB owners and the MLB Players’
Association will meet in Arizona this week, in an...
effort to see if an agreement to MLB’s drug policy can be hammered out before the beginning of the season. The discussion will center around suggested changes to MLB’s drug policy (or, Joint Drug Agreement (JDA) ) after the release of the Mitchell Report . As reported by Ronald ...
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MLB, MLBPA to Talk Changes to Drug Policy This Week
baseballdigestdaily.com - 3/12/2008
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Baseball Digest Daily has been closely following the
aftermath of the Mitchell Investigation, including the investigation conducted...
by the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. BDD has obtained copies of affidavits, depositions and witness statements in the Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee saga. Legal analyst Gordon Berger has been covering this story for BDD.
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Roger Clemens and the Congressional Committee on ...
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/25/2008
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If the name Bill James doesn’t mean anything
to you, then you are probably not a baseball...
fan and have no need to read further. If, however, you are a baseball fan — ranging from fairly serious to obsessively statistical — then the name Bill James ...
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Bring Your Questions for Sabermetrician Bill James - ...
gate21.net - 3/10/2008
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Once again the sports world is abuzz about
the start of spring training, and yet another Major...
League Baseball season. Baseball has a long list of issues on its plate as the season gets rolling along. All of the off-season chatter centered on the problems arising from the Mitchell Report, raises the question: Is Major League Baseball "Out?"
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Y’er Outta There!
seamheads.com - 3/22/2008
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The 1910 pre-Yankees may have had the most
unexpected second-place finish in baseball history. I have always...
been fascinated by the 1910 New York Highlanders. They're one of those teams that I would have loved to watch, because from this distance, what they did seems impossible.
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Forever Impressive, but Always Forgotten
bizofbaseball.com - 3/29/2008
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The White House says it was the Nats,
not the president that chose Manny Acta over Paul...
Lo Duca to catch the first pitch in Nationals Park. Not that Lo Duca being the Mitchell Report had anything to do with that.
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Bush League: President Didn’t Choose Acta Over Lo Duca
umpbump.com - 3/8/2008
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Miguel Tejada has a lot on his mind
these days. This offseason saw him get traded to...
a new team, get named in the Mitchell report, and become the target of an investigation for possibly having lied in sworn statements to Congress in 2005, which ...
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Hot Baseball Wife: Alejandra Tejada
hunthotties.com - 3/17/2008
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The Hottie Hunter was watching the George Lopez
show when he spied a long-legged heartstopper. After some...
research, the Hottie Hunter discovered it was none other than Ms. Stacy Keibler. Now I don't know what rock I've been hiding under, but I totally ...
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The Hottie Hunter: I Heart Stacy Keibler
newsday.com - 3/19/2008
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - George Steinbrenner became a
Hall of Famer last night. No, not the Hall...
of Fame you're thinking of.
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Reggie: Steinbrenner belongs in Cooperstown
statesman.com - 3/25/2008
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Here’s the potential dilemma. How would you handle
it? Hall of Fame baseball player George W. Bush...
(Little League Hall of Fame. You can look it up.) will throw the ceremonial first pitch Sunday at Nationals Park, new home of the Washington ...
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Bush to pitch to substance abuser?
nydailynews.com - 3/28/2008
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On the eve ofJose Canseco's second book, "Vindicated,"
hitting the shelves, the former Bash Brother took aim...
at Alex Rodriguez, Magglio Ordoñez and baseball Thursday night, telling "Nightline" co-anchor Martin Bashir that his "motive" for writing the sequel "is to attack Major League Baseball." In the interview, however, Roger Clemens was spared Canseco's fury as the author instead ...
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Canseco hammers away at McNamee
FanIQ.com - 3/28/2008
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President Bush will no longer be throwing out
the season opening pitch to Paul Lo Duca. The...
White House denies all involvement in having this switch happen. Right.
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The Washington Nationals Decide Not To Totally Embarrass ...
brahsome.com - 3/29/2008
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It’s Friday afternoon and sunny and warm and
we just can’t work anymore. So let’s give up,...
ok? In case you weren’t privy to this Hollywood inside information, George Clooney dates beautiful women. His current lady ...
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Sarah Larson Gets Really Nice, Wins Over Brahsome
