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To know list: 5 performance enhancers for your sports-centered brain.(Know It All)

The Sporting News

| March 08, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(1) STEROIDS IN BASEBALL

The heat is being turned up on the game and its players.

Cubs manager Dusty Baker calls the increasing suspicion of players McCarthyism, and he isn't wrong. Others call it a witch hunt, and they're not wrong. The latest furor over performance-enhancing drugs in baseball includes finger-pointing, political grandstanding and classic media hysteria. It isn't fair. But it is exactly what Major League Baseball deserves.

MLB didn't simply stick its head in the sand, it buried its entire muscle-bound body, creating an environment in which every player is under suspicion. First, MLB had no drug policy. Then, it enacted a ...

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