A spokesman for Major League Baseball's umpires union has accused MLB's security investigators of being like "secret police" because of the extensive background checks made on each of the league's umpires, the Associated Press has reported.
"Major League Baseball's security staff is essentially defaming umpires in their communities by conducting strange, surreptitious, and poorly-executed investigations resembling that of secret police in some despotic nation," the spokesman Lamell McMorris told the AP.
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Roger Clemens showed up at the Astros' minicamp on Wednesday and sidestepped a question about his upcoming appearance before a House committee investigating performance-enhancing drugs, according to an Associated Press report.
"I'm not going to talk about that," said Clemens. "I'm doing it the right way and do what I need to do. We're going to do it the right way."
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The Associated Press is reporting that the Hall of Fame Game, an annual tradition in Cooperstown, will end after this year's contest between the Cubs and Padres.
Officials say MLB decided keeping the game was too difficult because of the complexities of the schedule and "all its inherent challenges."
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General Jan 2008 Archive
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RealGM Staff Report | Jan 28, 2008
The Associated Press has reported that former New York Yankees' second baseman Chuck Knoblauch agreed Monday to talk to a committee investigating drug use in baseball.
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RealGM Staff Report | Jan 28, 2008
Roger Clemens' agent released an 18,000-word report Monday to defend against allegations that his career rebounded around the time period he was accused of using performance-enhancing drugs, according to the Associated Press.
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RealGM Staff Report | Jan 25, 2008
The 2008 regular-season schedule was announced by Major League Baseball on Thursday, with the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics opening the season on March 25 in Tokyo.
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RealGM Staff Report | Jan 24, 2008
Roger Clemens' meeting with a congressional committee investigating steroids in baseball was pushed back until next month.
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RealGM Staff Report | Jan 24, 2008
According to the Associated Press, Barry Bonds asked a federal judge to throw out the perjury charges against him on Wednesday.
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RealGM Staff Report | Jan 22, 2008
MLB Commissioner Bud Selig thinks the league is doing a good job of policing steroid use by its players.
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RealGM Staff Report | Jan 22, 2008
A congressional committee investigating steroids in baseball has subpoenaed Chuck Knoblauch in regards to allegations that occurred before September 2002 when steroids were banned.
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RealGM Staff Report | Jan 22, 2008
The New York Times is reporting that Jose Canseco has finally found a publisher for the sequel to his infamous book Juiced.
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ESPN | Jan 20, 2008
Published reports indicate that Jim Murray met with Brian McNamee in 2004, near Clemens' New York apartment, according to McNamee's attorney Earl Ward.
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RealGM Staff Report | Jan 20, 2008
Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were 'never as close as they were made out to be' said a friend close to the southpaw.
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ESPN | Jan 18, 2008
Roger Clemens was asked by Congress to submit to a deposition or transcribed interview Jan.
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New York Times | Jan 18, 2008
Roger Clemens has bolstered his legal team, hiring a powerhouse Washington lawyer Lanny A.
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ESPN | Jan 17, 2008
Outfielder Reggie Sanders, one of six players in baseball history with 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases, plans to make a decision on his future by the end of January.
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ESPN | Jan 17, 2008
The FBI has opened a preliminary investigation into whether All-Star Miguel Tejada lied to federal authorities when he denied taking steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, The Associated Press has learned.
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SI.com | Jan 17, 2008
In 2007, Bud Selig was reported to have earned $14 million.
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espn.com | Jan 17, 2008
Toxicology results show former major leaguer Jim Leyritz's blood-alcohol levels were nearly twice the legal limit the day he was involved in a fatal crash in December.
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ESPN | Jan 16, 2008
The new president of the World Anti-Doping Agency criticized Major League Baseball on Wednesday, saying the sport was resisting George Mitchell's recommendation to transfer drug testing to an independent organization.
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ESPN | Jan 16, 2008
Taking on baseball's steroids problem once again, Congress kept the finger-pointing and tough questioning to a minimum.
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ESPN | Jan 15, 2008
Major league pitcher Joe Kennedy was afflicted with a condition that caused his heart to suddenly stop beating at his in-laws' home in November when he collapsed and later died.
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MLB.com | Jan 14, 2008
Major League Baseball and the performance-enhancing drug issue will be back at center stage Tuesday on Capitol Hill, but this time Commissioner Bud Selig is set to appear in a much more proactive position.
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ESPN | Jan 14, 2008
Brian McNamee's attorney Earl Ward defended his client's asking for immunity to testify before Congress and suggested that if Roger Clemens were to contradict McNamee's testimony, the pitcher likely would be indicted for lying under oath.
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ESPN | Jan 14, 2008
Former U.
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ESPN | Jan 14, 2008
Johnny Podres, who pitched the Brooklyn Dodgers to their only World Series title in 1955, died Sunday at the age of 75.
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MLB.com | Jan 13, 2008
With a special dedication to Hall of Famer Juan Marichal on the 25th anniversary of his election to Cooperstown, an exhibit titled "See you at the Park! Baseball and Culture in the Dominican Republic" officially opened Friday in the Centro Le?n museum.
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ESPN | Jan 13, 2008
After saying repeatedly that Roger Clemens will answer any questions Congress wants to ask him, a source familiar with the inquiry said Saturday night that attorney Rusty Hardin is hedging over the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's request to depose Clemens under oath next week because it might interfere with his defamation lawsuit against personal trainer Brian McNamee.
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ESPN | Jan 12, 2008
Brian McNamee told federal law enforcement officials that Roger Clemens developed an abscess on his buttocks around the time that McNamee said he was giving him steroid injections in 1998, a lawyer with knowledge of details of the case told The New York Times.
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ESPN | Jan 11, 2008
Roger Clemens' accuser met for about three hours Thursday with federal prosecutors investigating performance-enhancing drugs in sports.
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AP | Jan 11, 2008
Major League Baseball launched a Department of Investigations Friday, a permanent branch of the commissioner's office responsible for looking into drug use in the sport.
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ESPN | Jan 10, 2008
Major League Baseball and the NFL agreed to join the U.
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ESPN | Jan 10, 2008
Goose Gossage can understand why some players would try steroids.
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ESPN | Jan 9, 2008
Alex Cabrera, whose name appeared in the Mitchell report issued last month, agreed to a $2.
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AP | Jan 9, 2008
The congressional hearing involving Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, and former trainer Brian McNamee was postponed Tuesday, The Associated Press learned.
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SI.com | Jan 8, 2008
Detectives believed the former New York Yankees trainer who says he injected Roger Clemens with steroids lied to them during the 2001 investigation of a possible rape, according to documents released Tuesday by police.
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ESPN | Jan 8, 2008
Acting on recommendations in the Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball cracked down on clubhouse security Monday in an effort to prevent the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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ESPN | Jan 7, 2008
Roger Clemens repeatedly denied using steroids during a conversation with Brian McNamee, but the former trainer would not confirm or deny his assertation.
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Houston Chronicle | Jan 7, 2008
In a defamation lawsuit filed Sunday night, Roger Clemens claims Brian McNamee, his longtime trainer and chief accuser of steroid abuse, was threatened with jail if he didn't connect the pitcher to steroids.
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Newsnet 5 | Jan 6, 2008
After publicly exchanging harsh words since the release of the Mitchell Report last month, pitcher Roger Clemens and his former trainer Brian McNamee spoke via telephone Friday, New York Newsday reported.
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New York Daily News | Jan 6, 2008
Rich Hartmann sits in a booth at a Penn Station restaurant and sips on a beer as he waits with dozens of other commuters for the train home to Long Island and wonders what might have been.
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New York Post | Jan 6, 2008
Roger Clemens' next attempt to clear his name comes tonight on "60 Minutes.
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ESPN | Jan 5, 2008
Former Sports Illustrated associate editor Don Yaeger, who had initially planned on collaborating on Jose Canseco's next book, has decided against working with the former slugger, according to a published report.
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ESPN | Jan 5, 2008
Hearst Corp.
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AP | Jan 5, 2008
Goose Gossage is filled with confidence.
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AP | Jan 4, 2008
Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were asked Friday to testify before a congressional committee on Jan.
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ESPN | Jan 3, 2008
Roger Clemens says he was injected with "Lidocaine and B-12" and not steroids or human growth hormone by former trainer Brian McNamee, according to a portion of an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" released Thursday.
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AP | Jan 2, 2008
Former World Series' star Jim Leyritz had a suspended license before he was charged with driving under the influence and killing a woman last week in Florida.
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New York Daily News | Jan 1, 2008
Former Yankee slugger Jim Leyritz expressed condolences Monday to the family of a Florida woman he allegedly killed in a drunken driving crash.
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