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Despite pressure from a Congressional committee, Major League Baseball is intent on allowing its newly re-written drug policy to work before seeking any more changes from the players association, Commissioner Bud Selig said at a press gathering at HoHoKam Park on Saturday. A year after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his Senate Commerce Committee told Selig and union chief executives Don Fehr to toughen baseball's steroid-testing program, the top ranking members of the House Government Reform Committee told them to do it again at the end of an 11-hour hearing on Thursday in Washington, D.C. MLB responded to Congress by...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledged using steroids during his years as a champion body builder and said he would still have used them even knowing what he knows now about the adverse effects of the performance-enhancing drugs. In an interview to be broadcast Sunday, Schwarzenegger told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "I have no regrets about it, because at that time, it was something new that came on the market, and we went to the doctor and did it under doctors' supervision. We were experimenting with it. It was a new thing. So you can't roll the clock back and...

We keep hearing about "zero tolerance" from government officials and in government schools. Well, perhaps it is time We the People ought to demand a little zero tolerance from them. For instance, they jailed Martha Stewart for lying to an investigator. What about Bill Clinton? There are still a few matters that have not been resolved with the Clinton fiasco yet. Why isn't out and out perjury treated more seriously than lying so some stuffy investigator? We should have zero tolerance for all political lying -- for all public officials, which are public servants, actually. Turn the law around and...

By now, most of you know that I'm not that much of a sports fan. I watch maybe one football game a year. Not a whole one, mind you, just a minute here, 30 seconds there, as I'm flipping channels between Food Network, Animal Planet, Adult Swim and Fox News. I'm not all that fussed about basketball, except when a fight breaks out of course, and I can't be bothered too much with hockey except when a fight doesn't break out. Being an American citizen and a male of the species, however, it is expected that I give a rat's...

<p>High school athletic officials in Michigan say they are increasingly concerned about the number of athletes using steroids and other performance-enhancing substances, including a new study that shows use by high school seniors is up 50 percent in the past decade.</p>

<p>Advisers to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sought to distance him Friday from reports that an international bodybuilding event he co-founded was visited by federal authorities last weekend as part of a widening probe into steroid distribution in the sports world.</p> <p>The Governor's Office declined to respond to an ESPN report that at least five subpoenas were issued at the Arnold Fitness Weekend in Columbus, Ohio. The event, which drew an estimated 80,000 spectators and participants, includes the Arnold Classic bodybuilding competition and dozens of exhibits advertising a range of nutritional supplements, hormones and steroids.</p>

(AP Photo) 'Designer Steroid' Rocking Sports World Sports World Rocked by a Doping Scandal Involving 'Designer Steroid' That Can't Be Detected The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Oct. 23 — A designer steroid at the center of a sports doping scandal is synthesized so craftily that it is undetectable by the standard test given to athletes. Europe's fastest man 100-meter champion Dwain Chambers of Britain has admitted taking tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG. Other athletes including sluggers Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi and boxer Shane Mosley have been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating the nutritional supplement company at the...