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...Mark McGwire, a balding, svelter version of his former 70-home-run self, sauntered into a congressional hearing room on St. Patrick's Day wearing a light green tie. But there were no eyes, Irish or otherwise, smiling on him from the dais. Before members of the House Government Reform Committee and millions of fans watching on television, McGwire swore to tell nothing but the truth. Instead, he told nothing. After a moving opening statement in which he cried while ruing the deaths of young steroid users, the cameras clicked in wild anticipation. Was Big Mac ready to admit that...
...McGwire took a deep breath. "If a player answers no, he simply will not be believed," he said about the anticipated questions of his own steroid use. "If he answers yes, he risks public scorn and endless government investigations." So unlike fellow players on the panel, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, who flatly denied taking steroids, and Jose Canseco, an admitted abuser, McGwire essentially took the Fifth. Mighty McGwire, the man whose eclipse of Roger Maris' home-run record galvanized a nation and who became this magazine's 1998 Hero of the Year, tried to draw a walk rather than...
...ready for opening day, drugs have dulled the allure. First, leaked grand jury testimony revealed that Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi had allegedly taken performance-enhancing drugs. (Bonds denied knowing those substances were steroids.) Then, in a splashy new book titled Juiced, Canseco wrote that he had injected McGwire and Palmeiro with steroids and noted that they were far from alone in their drug usage...
...legislators all but scorned baseball executives' attempts to defend their drug policy. Commissioner Bud Selig, looking at times pained, at times as if he just lost his dog, claimed he didn't become concerned about baseball's steroid problem until the hulking McGwire admitted he took androstenedione in 1998 (andro was legal in baseball at the time). "No manager, no general manager, nobody ever came to me in the '90s," said Selig. At best, it showed big-league naiveté, since those drugs were clearly baseball's dirty little secret in the 1990s. Said Massachusetts Representative Steven Lynch, a Democrat...
...work with the Safe Surfin' Foundation, a group that works on protecting kids from meeting potential sexual predators online. Next week could also be star-studded: As part of a hearing on steroids, the House Government Reform Committee has invited baseball players Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, as well as Commissioner Bud Selig. So far, only Canseco, who has a new book out fingering dozens of players as steroid users, has said he will come...