Addressing his inclusion in the Mitchell Report for the first time, Nationals catcher Paul Lo Duca acknowledged what he called "a mistake" - without coming right out and explaining exactly what he was apologizing for. ...more

February 17, 2008

Few men who have ever gripped a baseball know more about saving games than Mariano Rivera. ...more

February 16, 2008

UNIVERSITY AREA More than 65 percent of residents who participated in the first phase of a community survey said they definitely would or probably would move from the University Area within a year. A report on the survey, conducted by the Jim Walter Partnership Center at the University of South Florida, stated that people wanted to move to get better housing costs, better schools for their children, better stores and other facilities and to live in an area with less racial or ethnic tension. ...more

February 13, 2008

A Drugged Nation Is Not Healthy - is one of the few pieces of responsible and honest writings on this issue. The masses have blinders on and are continually being lied to by the "experts" who, when you listen to them talk, one for one admit that they "don't know what it does," or "if it works," and "how it works" when prescribing these drugs to children and their parents. ...more

January 30, 2008

During his Sunday interview with Mike Wallace on "60 Minutes," baseball superstar Roger Clemens was defiant in denying he had ever used performance-enhancing drugs. ...more

January 8, 2008

SEBRING — Random drug testing started this year in the county's middle schools with only one student testing positive during the first semester. A reported 260 students were tested at the School Board of Highlands County's four middle schools with negative results (no drugs in their system) for 259 students and one student testing positive. "So that's pretty good," said Student Services Coordinator Patty Jackson. The students who are tested are picked randomly just as in the high school. Drug testing started at the high school level near the beginning of the 2006-07 school year with school officials confident that it would give students a reason to say "no" when offered drugs. At the high school level thus far this school year, of the 124 students who were tested, two had "positive" results indicating ...more

December 28, 2007

It's on days like this, when the sports pages are splattered with accusations of drug use and you're sick of the whole business, you need someone like Joe Girardi. ...more

December 14, 2007

It's on days like this, when the sports pages are splattered with accusations of drug use and you're sick of the whole business, you need someone like Joe Girardi. ...more

December 14, 2007

What: George Mitchell, former Senate majority leader, will announce the results of a 20-month investigation into drug use in baseball. Commissioner Bud Selig hired Mitchell in March 2006 to lead the inquiry. ...more

December 13, 2007

A long-awaited report on steroid and performance-enhancing drug use in Major League Baseball, which is expected to be released today, will lay blame at all levels of the sport for a widespread drug problem and call for drastic changes in the league's drug-testing program, according to sources briefed on the investigation. ...more

December 13, 2007