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...grand jury's term expired last week without an indictment of Barry Bonds. But prosecutors are still investigating the slugger's alleged steroid use, tax evasion and perjury. They go to bat before a new grand jury this week...
...When McGwire and Sosa were pursuing Maris's record in 1998, Maris Jr. appeared at games to celebrate both players. But that was before baseball's steroid scandal raised questions about their achievements...
...however, has changed considerably. In 2005 a resolution was passed by the state senate in North Dakota, Maris's home state, to recognize Maris as baseball's single-season home run champ, and Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan has sponsored a similar resolution in the U.S. Senate, citing the ongoing steroids scandal. "Some of us think [Maris's] home run record still stands," Dorgan said during Commerce Committee hearings last year on steroids and baseball, "and that is a sad comment on baseball." Appearing before the committee, Sosa denied using steroids, and McGwire refused to answer questions about steroid us (though...
...identify specific types of cells—for enabling their discovery.“The tools were not really available until a couple of years ago,” Akbari says.Umetsu says that a better understanding of the cause of asthma might lead to an improvement on the current steroid-based treatments.“The current treatments are effective in most people with asthma, but they don’t cure people. They’re mostly aimed at symptom relief,” Umetsu says. “If we target NKT cells, better therapies are available...
...don’t really mind. The NBA lost its luster for me when Michael Jordan retired, and even the enormous Oklahoma City Hornets billboards on I-35 have trouble wresting attention from a populace rabid for college football.And the prospect of a summer of baseball highlights and steroid scandals leaves me uninterested and even perturbed.Baseball isn’t big in Oklahoma. It’s often dwarfed in the papers by high school football or a detailed article about which second-string OU cornerback pulled his hamstring in two-a-days. So the spring, at least...