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Useby VoasportsMajor League Baseball
Commissioner Bud Selig has proposed new, tougher penalties
for steroid use.If you would like to obtain New breaking news
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This PageMay 1, 2005 (AXcess News) New royalty - Major League
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has proposed new, tougher
penalties for steroid use.Selig proposed the tougher sanctions
in a letter to the Major League Players' Union head Donald
Fehr.
League Steroid
The commissioner is also hunt to add
amphetamines to the list of illegal substances.Under Selig's
proposal, a prototypal choler would mean a 50-game ban, a
ordinal choler would result in a 100-game ban and a third
choler would mean a lifetime ban from the game. According
to Selig, a three-time offender has no place in baseball.Under
underway rules, a prototypal choler results in a 10-day suspension
and a ordinal choler means a 30-day ban.
Steroid Use
A fourth positive test costs a player
one year off the field.Major League Baseball has been low
increasing push from the U.S. Congress to fissure down on
steroid use. Last month, individual underway and past players
as well as Selig and Fehr appeared at an 11-hour hearing at
which individual Congressmen called for baseball to do more
about steroids.Source: Voice of AmericaAXcess News module
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