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SELIG TO TESTIFY AT STEROID HEARING

Major League Baseball commissioner, Bud Selig, has volunteered to testify before a US House of Representatives Reform Committee over the use of steroids in the sport.

Selig expects to be asked about whether or not owners confronted players who were suspected of using steroids in the late 1990s when their efforts lined owners’ pockets and revived interest in the game.

Baseball banned steroids last year and toughened the penalties for steroid abuse this year, but at 10 days for a first-time offender they remain well short of the two-year World Anti-Doping Agency standard for Olympic athletes.

Lawmakers may want to find out why changes were not made sooner and why punishments are not tougher, reports lycos.co.uk