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Castillo extends streak to 34 games. Page 4C INSIDE The Climes Doland excelled on and off field at McNeese, 2C I NHL Meredith approves Duncan safety advances nets for in Western spectators, 5C Amateur, 2C SPORTS CONTACT JOHN McCLOSKEY 459-3295 or FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2002 Baseball can't hide steroids NEW YORK Baseball's er and union head are talking game about steroid abuse. Trouble is, it sounds like all talk. As if the only things that matter are counteracting bad publicity and placating a few critics in Congress. Bud Selig and Donald Fehr have finally acknowledged, at least tacitly, that baseball has a drug problem.

That's a lot farther than they were willing to go four years ago when now commissiona good Steve Wilstein Opinion Mark McGwire kept androstenedione in his locker while launching 70 moonshots. Their reaction then was to shrug it off and commission a study, asking Harvard scientists to check out andro. Big surprise, the scientists told them two years later that andro does raise testosterone levels and might lead to liver damage and other nasty problems. Selig and Fehr didn't do anything then or when, around the same time, 10 team doctors warned of widespread steroid abuse. Nor did Selig and Fehr express alarm when more and more players showed up each spring with grotesquely transformed bodies, claiming their new 30 pounds of steely muscle came just from working out over the winter.

Now with Jose Canseco saying, albeit in his typically hyperbolic way, that 85 percent of ballplayers are juiced, and Ken Caminiti acknowledging that he used steroids during his 1996 MVP season, no one can pretend that baseball does not have a mess to clean up. "You're talking about the health and welfare of a group of people, which is very important," Commissioner Bud Selig said Wednesday in Milwaukee while calling for steroid testing in the labor agreement under negotiation. "No one cares more about the game, the health of the players, than the players themselves," players association boss Donald Fehr told a Senate committee Tuesday during hearings on steroid abuse in baseball. Fehr allowed that it might be time for Congress to study andro. Robert Manfred, baseball's executive vice president for labor relations, said Congress should consider reclassifying andro and similar testosterone boosters from over-thecounter supplements to controlled drugs that require prescriptions.

That's easy for Fehr and Manfred to say. It doesn't call for any accountability from the players or the owners. What would mean something would be a year-round, random drug-testing program. A program that has teeth in it, that would punish players for cheating and send a message that steroids won't just be discouraged, they won't be tolerated. Colangelo, owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Phoenix Suns, noted at the Senate hearing that the NBA has mandatory random tests for steroids.

The NFL also tests for steroids while the NHL, like major league baseball, has no policy regarding their use. Random testing, Colangelo said, "would be a necessary and fundamental step in the direction of ridding steroid use in major league baseball." Fehr is not willing to go anywhere near that far. He still puts protecting players' rights to privacy ahead of worries about their health and influence over youngsters. The union might accept limited steroid program but don't count on players handing over urine samples whenever a tester shows up without cause. Similarly, Selig's comments notwithstanding, baseball owners don't have the interest, gumption or resolve to press for Olympic-style testing.

For one, muscle bound home run sluggers sell tickets. For another, there are more urgent problems a luxury tax and contraction, for example on the collective bargaining table. With strike talk fouling the air, neither side is likely to go to the mat over steroids. So all the talk of doing something about steroids is probably just that. Lip service.

A way to sound sincere in response to embarrassing claims by Canseco and Caminiti. Selig and Fehr are saying things now that they should have said four years ago when McGwire acknowledged using andro. Instead, afraid of sullying McGwire's record as he and Sammy Sosa helped revive baseball from the lingering morbidity of the 1994 strike, Selig and Fehr danced around the issue. They can't do that so easily anymore. Steve Wilstein is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press.

Come out and play. Louisiana Downs Off-track betting daily. Stewart watched U.S. team flourish The Associated Press Today's game U.S. vs.

Germany, ESPN coverage begins at' 6 a.m. Results online Click on www.shreveportti mes. com and look for News from the Wire. INSIDE: Injured Armas watches dream go by, 3C ULSAN, South Korea Earnie Stewart remembers the old days, when the United States was a soccer outsider that other countries ridiculed. He's spent 12 years with the American national team, helping it become a contender with global soccer powers and reach the World Cup quarterfinals today against Germany.

"We've come a long way with the whole program, with the players, with everything for U.S. soccer," he said." Stewart led the United States with three goals in the semifinal AAU Grand Nationals give Shreveport-Bossier City international exposure. By Brian Vernellis The Times After getting a total of 4 hours of sleep Monday and Tuesday night, you would expect Jack Roller's eyes to be heavy with prominent dark circles around them. But instead of finding exhaustion dropping from his face, Roller was bright and alert, though harried on Wednesday. His appearance was deceiving.

Even he admitted he was drained after the first day of the Grand National Wrestling Championships at Hirsch Coliseum. As the tournament director, everything revolves around him. By Saturday, the final day of the tournament, about 1,000 wrestlers will have competed in the oldest wrestling tournament in the world. On that first day, Roller was zig-zagging around Hirsch, making sure everything ran as smoothly as possible with about 170 wrestlers competing in the Sombo tournament. "It's been a real challenge," he said that first day.

"We had about 200 kids (Wednesday), we'll have 500 (Thursday) and close to 800 (today and Saturday). We've had different problems than we would with all the kids here. We got 2.460 kids through in Reno for the Reno World Championships easier than the 200 kids we had (Wednesday)." His problems began early Wednesday morning when 11 of the 13 timers used for the matches were malfunctioning. A hasty phone call to an electrician resolved that problem. The fou day event actually plays out as three separate tournaments attracting wrestlers from around the globe.

The 1 license plates in the Hirsch parking lot read like an atlas Virginia, Ohio, Alaska, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Colorado. Wrestlers from Venezuela, France and Bulgaria also attended the first day. See AAU 3C Event schedule TODAY: 8:30 a.m. Opening ceremonies; 9:30 a.m. Freestyle tournament begins, continues until pool placement is decided SATURDAY: 8 a.m.

Freestyle tournament resumes; 4-6 p.m. Approximate time of finals AP Saints cornerback Dale Carter (top) attempts to tackle rookie wide receiver Donte' Stallworth during Thursday's workouts. Only 7 days On Friday, June 28, it's spectacular Thoroughbred everyone to enjoy. Make your for Opening Weekend. Call Racing from around round of World Cup and the Americans' 10 games of the final round.

Yet, on a team where 20-year-olds Landon Donovan and DaMarcus Beasley stand out with their fearlessness and sticks out with hairdo, Stewart background. "He's a great equals Ezell of Illinois of Nebraska pins qualifying for the scored five of 11 goals in the Arena Clint Mathis his Mohawk stays in the leader on the (bottom) winces him during a field," U.S. coach Bruce Arena said, citing Stewart's "experience, quickness, ball possession" and calling him "the foundation of our team during qualifying." Stewart is so low-key that he never told anyone around the team until two years ago that his name is spelled "Earnie." Go back to July 4, 1994, when he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and he's referred to as "Ernie Stewart." "He just kind of pointed it out," said Jim Moorhouse, who heads the U.S. Soccer Federation's media office. "And we said, 'Really?" But on Tuesday night he uncharacteristically stood out at the U.S.

team hotel, dressed in scarlet, as the Italy Korea game was being shown on TV. "I had on my Korean shirt and everything last night to support them," Stewart said. "I felt like that was the least I could do." As the United States fell behind Poland by three goals last Friday, he was convinced his World Cup career had just minutes left. And then South Korea scored to beat the Portuguese, allowing the Americans to advance to the second round. attention Jessica Times as Richard the AAU Grand National Championships at match at Hirsch Coliseum on Thursday.

After the game, he looked drained and spoke like someone who had been pardoned. "I think everybody, including myself, had the feeling that we were done," he said. The son of a U.S. Air Force veteran and a Dutch mother, Stewart lived in the United States only from 1971 to 1976. When the USSF discovered he was a citizen, he was called in to join the national team after the 1990 World Cup.

He scored the winning goal in the 2-1 upset of Colombia at the 1994 World Cup and proposed to his girlfriend Yvonne in the afterglow of the victory. Texas edges Stanford I Longhorns advance to Saturday's championship game. The Associated Press beating Stan- INSIDE ford 6-5 Carolina war Thurs- reaches boiling a point, 5C night. OMAHA, Neb. The school that's been to the College World Series more than any other is back in the title game for the first time in 13 years.

Texas clinched a berth in Saturday's championship by "It's been our moment. It's been a ride where we've been destined to be to this point," Texas coach Augie Garrido said. Jeff Ontiveros and Dustin Majewski homered and relievers Jesen Merle and Huston Street shut out the Cardinal over the last four innings as Texas beat Stanford for the second time this week. The Longhorns (56-15) advanced to the final game for the first time since 1989 and will play for the title against the winner of today's game between South Carolina and Clemson. "We had our goal set on the World Series and winning it," said Majewski, whose solo homer in the seventh broke a 5-all tie and held up as the game-winner.

"I think we deserve to be here the way we worked all year long." The Longhorns are in their 29th CWS and have four national titles, the last in 1983. Stanford had opened its last two CWS appearances 3-0, then lost in the title game. The Cardinal fell to the elimination bracket after an 8-7 loss to the Longhorns on Monday. "They played tough. We jumped on them early but they battled back," Stanford coach Mark Marquess said.

"We had some chances to score, but A See HORNS 5C Saints kick off final minicamp The Associated Press them along," Brooks said of when we get out of this "In addition to our five the additions to the Saints camp and by the time we get starters, we feel that we are NEW ORLEANS offense, "slowly but surely." in training camp there won't going to have real good Aaron Brooks is still work- After a minicamp and the be backups as well." Haslett ing on technique, still hon- coaching sessions con- Brooks is pleased with the said. ing his skills, in fact, still densed from seven weeks a increase in speed he'll have The biggest area of conlearning the names of all the year ago to a on the offense this year. No. cern is running back. new people on the practice stretch that ended last Fri- 1 draft pick Donte' Stall- Ricky Williams was traded field for the New Orleans day, the players have been worth and free agent to Miami this spring, leaving Saints final minicamp.

exposed to the complete Jerome Pathon are expected the starting job to Deuce Still, Brooks, who is going playbook, coach Jim Haslett to add threats at wide re- McAllister. into his second year as the said. ceiver. "I'm proud of what Deuce Saints starting quarterback, "We've been working "We're still working on has accomplished this offwas one of the seasoned hard since we got things," Brooks said. "But season," I Haslett said.

"He's pros on the field Thursday. Haslett said. "What we did every step makes us better." going to play at about 230 Of the 93 players in the was put in the offense, de- Haslett is happy with the pounds, that's about 12 minicamp, 50 of them are in fense and special teams. It's depth on both offensive and pounds more than he their first year with New Or- the third time they're going defensive lines. There are weighed last year.

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