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Search results for "Major League Baseball" ...
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ESPN Outside the Lines:What's Lurking in Your Stadium Food
Health department inspection reports for food and beverage outlets at stadiums and arenas home to Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Hockey League, and National Baseball Association teams showed that more than half of them had been cited for a "critical" or "major" health inspection.
Tags: sports; stadium; arena; stadium food; health; safety; food preparation
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Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Black in Bellaire
Robbie Tolan dreamed of a career in Major League Baseball, until a night that changed it all. While driving home to a predominantly white and affluent neighborhood, he was stopped by the police in front of his home and was suspected of stealing his own car. As his parents stood by, the police officer shot Robbie and almost killed him. He now lives a life without his love, the game of baseball.
Tags: Bobby Tolan; Bellaire, Texas; gunpoint; crime; law enforcement; criminal; race; bias; discrimination
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Dykstra's Business a Bed of 'Nails'
Lenny Dykstra appeared to be the picture of success. He set out to build a “financial empire” based off of professional athletes and his own reputation as a former Major League Baseball star. “But an ESPN.com investigation discovered that Dykstra was a financial train wreck with a long history of skipping out on bills. Also, ESPN.com discovered that at least 24 legal actions had been filed against Dykstra over the previous two years.”
Tags: Baseball; Financial; Players; Lawsuit; Entrepreneur; Major League Baseball; MLB
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Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
San Francisco Chronicle reporters broke the story that some elite athletes used drugs to "run faster, hit harder, and cash in on the fame that comes only to those at the very top of their games." Fainaru-Wada and Williams used"Federal Grand Jury transcripts and federal investigative reports... court records and state health department records," among other documents. (332 pages)
Tags: steroids; drugs; BALCO; Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative; San Francisco Chronicle; Victor Conte; Major League Baseball; football; track and field; California Public Records Act; Federal Grand Jury; sports agents; trainers; sports doping; Olympics; Justice Department; IRS; U.S. Anti-Doping Agency; USADA
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Ongoing Steroid Coverage
The year long investigation focused on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports, particularly in baseball.
Tags: drugs; steroids; baseball; Mark McGwire; Jose Canseco; Major League Baseball
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Who Knew?
This investigation traced the arc of the anabolic steroids age in Major League Baseball. The report describes the phenomenon by telling the story of critical characters in the national pastime's chemical history.
Tags: sports; drugs; illegal substances; BALCO; baseball; professional athletes
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Dominican Gold Rush
The series looks at how young baseball hopefuls from the Dominican Republic become targets for abuse by "buscones," or independent scouts or agents who take a cut of the potentially huge signing bonuses from American major league teams. Buscones encourage young players to drop out of school and, in some cases, encourage them to take harmful veterinary nutrients as cheap substitutes for anabolic steroids.
Tags: major league baseball; steroids; minor leagues; sports agents; scouts; Arizona Diamondbacks
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Rose's law firms aided Nadel's judicial campaigns
This investigation on deadline revealed that the judge presiding over Pete Rose's lawsuit against Major League Baseball had accepted $1,500 in campaign contributions from attorneys in law firms that represent Rose. Attorneys in the law firm representing Major League Baseball contributed $150 to the judge.
Tags: campaign finance; Pete Rose; politics; campaign contributions
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Ticket Demand Is High, But Are New Fenway Seats Worth Risk?
Bill Dedman investigates the dangers at Fenway Park and other baseball parks around the country. He finds that, although baseball teams and Major League baseball don't count injuries, many occur each year. He measures distances of seats in Fenway and finds that they are dangerously close to the action, without a safety net.
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BALCO Steroid Conspiracy Case
These stories from the San Francisco Chronicle, investigate two men who were suspected of supplying elite athletes with steroids that could not be detected through drug testing. These two men worked with a nutritional supplement lab and supplied steroids and human growth hormones to NFL football players, major league baseball players and Olympic athletes.
Tags: Food and Drug Administration (FDA); steroid supplements; Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative; Victor Conte; drug use by athletes; drug testing; NFL; baseball