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...holdover candidates.If recent history is any indication, the odds are solidly stacked against Bonds, Clemens and Sosa. Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro both posted Cooperstown-caliber stats, too, but drug clouds doomed them in Hall voting.Some...
...trouble.For example, Tiger Woods said he was sorry for cheating on his wife in televised speech, and baseball slugger Mark McGwire eventually admitted to steroid use. Yet Armstrong faces serious legal entanglements those megastars didn't, and...
...drugs."We've a forgiving society, I know that," he said. "But I have too great a passion for the sport."Mark McGwire, 10th on the career home run list, received 16.9 percent on his seventh try, down from 19.5 last year. He received...
...one that will taint him forever.Sammy Sosa might have gotten in even without the cartoonish home run totals he and Mark McGwire put up beginning in the late 1990s.They're all on the ballot released Wednesday by the Hall of Fame, ready to be...
...use, college football has operated with barely a whiff of scandal. Between 1996 and 2010 - the era of Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Marion Jones and Lance Armstrong - the failure rate for NCAA steroid tests fell even closer to zero from an already...
...for the first time adding Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa to a list of candidates that already included Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and a handful of other players who fell under suspicion during one of the darkest periods in the history...
...record book should be overhauled, taking away the accomplishments of players like Bonds, Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro and Mark McGwire - who has admitted using steroids and human growth hormone during his playing days.McGwire, 10th on the career home...
...Athletics 5-0. Ryan was the first to pitch no-hitters for three teams and, at 43, the oldest to throw one.1995 - Mark McGwire hit three home runs in consecutive at-bats and tied the major league record of five homers in consecutive games...
...Neither Niekro nor Sutton got a decision as the Angels scored six runs in the bottom of the eighth to win 9-3.1987 - Mark McGwire homered twice to tie a major league record with five homers over two games, and Steve Ontiveros pitched a two-hitter...
...Dan Duquette in the general manager's suite.1998 - Mark McGwire becomes the second player to hit 40 home runs in both...Osting, who will never make the parent club.2001 - Mark McGwire hit his 563rd homer to tie Reggie Jackson for sixth...