Mark McGwire, the Major League baseball player who hit 70 home runs in 1998 with the St. Louis Cardinals, now admits that he used steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. When this sports scandal first broke out many years ago, he denied any wrongdoing.
This is an excerpt to what he said in a statement released to AP on Monday:
I never knew when, but I always knew this day would come. It’s time for me to talk about the past and to confirm what people have suspected. I used steroids during my playing career and I apologize. I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989/1990 off season and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again. I used them on occasion throughout the ’90s, including during the 1998 season.
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Who are the possible opponents of Floyd Mayweather Jr. this 2010 now that the megafight between him and Manny Pacquiao is in limbo? March 13 is still booked for the Mayweather. But who’s he going to rumble? A WWE wrestler perhaps?
Kidding aside, there are still a few boxers out there worthy to face the former pound for pound king. Let us try to examine who are these boxers who can make him sweat, yet earn possible millions.
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The Pacquiao vs Mayweather fight is off as of this writing. This was announced by Bob Arum, Top Rank’s boss, and as reported by many news sites. It could have been the fight of the decade between two excellent fighters. What a waste!
The mediation didn’t work. Federal judge Daniel Weinstein spent hours talking to both Pacquiao and Mayweather camps. Pacquiao would have agreed to a 24 days before the fight blood test, though initially, Mayweather wants the random testing to happen any day, any time before the fight.
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