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Baseball report: Steroid-use widespread listen

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Tags: Baseball, performance enhancing drugs

Major League Baseball is taking another blow with the release of a report by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell on performance enhancing drugs in baseball.

But the report acknowledges that it is not definitive.

A former prosecutor and senator from Maine, Mitchell was appointed by Commissioner Bud Selig to conduct the investigation in March 2006, shortly after the release of the book, Game of Shadows, which documented the use of steroids by the game’s biggest star, Barry Bonds, who is no...