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Jose Canseco was held for nearly 10 hours by immigration authorities after agents said they stopped the former baseball star as he attempted to bring a fertility drug from Mexico, his lawyer said Friday. Canceco was detained at San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing Thursday after agents searched his vehicle and said they found human chorionic gonadotropin, which is illegal without a prescription, said his attorney, Gregory Emerson. Emerson declined to say if Canseco — who admitted to using steroids in a 2005 book that also alleged steroid use by other baseball players — had the drug, which is banned...

Jose Canseco may be known for — among other things — knocking balls out of the park. But Saturday, he couldn't help but be a victim of a knockout of a different kind. The 6-foot-4 ex-slugger was KO'd by former Philadelphia Eagles kick returner, 5-foot-9 Vai Sikahema, in the first round of their celebrity boxing match in Atlantic City, according to a report by the Press of Atlantic City.

LOS ANGELES - Jose Canseco, the former AL MVP who made millions during his baseball career, has had his home foreclosed. Canseco told the syndicated TV show "Inside Edition" that he walked away from his $2.5 million, 7,300-square foot home in suburban Encino because it didn't make sense to continue making payments. "I do have a judgment on my home and it to me is very strange because it didn't make financial sense for me to keep paying a mortgage on a home that was basically owned by someone else," he said in an interview that aired Thursday. "You know...

So future Hall of Famer Rafael Palmeiro is guilty of steroids abuse after all. Steroids? Palmeiro? Who could have possibly imagined that? You may recall that Palmeiro became indignant when career knucklehead Jose Canseco implicated him with his tell-all book. He insisted he never juiced up. He positioned himself as an anti-steroids zealot. While Mark McGwire was damning himself with those mish-mash answers before Congress, Palmeiro was emphatic in his testimony on Capitol Hill. ... While the hapless McGwire came off like a fool, Palmeiro presented himself as a hero. But a lot of us never bought into his act....

The Government Reform Committee of the US House stepped up to the plate yesterday and held a day-long hearing on the issue of steroid use in American sports. There were four panels including the parents of two high school athletes who took steroids and then committed suicide in the aftermath of their drug use. The meat of the order, though, was the three current and two former major league players including Jose Conseco - who has written an autobiography naming several other panel members as steroid users; as well as Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmiero, and Curt Schilling. I'm...

The congressional hearings on steroids have the potential to be one of the most important events in baseball's long history. More important than any lockout or union strike. More important than the 1980s' epidemic of cokehead players. You might have to go all the way back to the Black Sox scandal to find an event of equal meaning. The reason is simple: The use of steroids, like the fixing of the 1919 World Series, goes directly to the integrity of baseball. Any time there is doubt about the final results, about wins and losses, batting averages and home runs, every...

Jose Canseco is ready to put his money where he mouth is, but you may have to pay to see it. Appearing on ESPN2's "Cold Pizza" yesterday, Canseco said he is trying to set up a Pay-Per-View event where he will take a lie detector test to prove the claims in his book "Juiced" are true. "Something is being constructed right now," he said on the show. "We are going to set up some type of polygraph examination." As for the Mike Greenwell controversy, Canseco said the former Red Sox - who complained last week that he was more deserving...

Former MVP Runner-Up Wants Canseco's Award 1 hour, 35 minutes ago RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - The man who finished second to Jose Canseco in voting for the 1988 American League most valuable player award says he should have the award now that Canseco is talking publicly about his steroid use. "Where's my MVP?" former Boston Red Sox (news) outfielder Mike Greenwell told the Fort Myers, Florida, News-Press. "(Canseco's) an admitted steroid user. I was clean." Canseco, in his book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big," and in interviews with CBS's "60 Minutes" news...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco claimed that both Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire took steroids during their famed home-run chase in 1998 during an exclusive interview with Kevin Kennedy, who managed Canseco while he was a Texas Ranger, on the first day of broadcasting for XM Satellite Radio's MLB Home Plate channel (XM Channel 175). In a separate interview on MLB Home Plate, baseball veteran Pete Rose criticized Canseco for his accusations of steroid use among former teammates, saying, "No one needs the money that bad to capitalize on your teammates." An encore broadcast of...

Did Mike Wallace say that more on the Canseco book was going to be broadcast this Wednesdy? I hope so. Many things may develop in 3 days.

Just saw the ad for the upcoming Interview with Jose Canseco, this Sunday on 60 Minutes. Big surprise they booked him, seeing as he said Bush knew about all the Steroid usage while he was the Managing Partner of the Texas Rangers.

If by chance baseball missed him, or had forgotten him entirely, Jose Canseco has turned up again on its doorstep. For the moment, it knows not whether he brings truth or spite, only that his reluctant retirement has wrought arrests, jail time, empty-the-trophy-case garage sales and, most notably, an autobiography he claims to be a work of nonfiction. One of the extraordinary ballplayers of his generation, Canseco never was able to handle idle time, as the divorces, gun charge, speeding tickets, steroid use and random violence would imply. He believes, though, that the game deserted him before he was through,...

In 35 years as a baseball fan, there has never been anyone more disappointing to me personally than Jose Canseco. The guy breaks my heart. He is the poster boy for wasted human potential, a tragi-comic figure who could have been the best ever but threw it all away. Who could have imagined that in the late 1980s, when Canseco was the world's premier player and a lethal combination of speed and power who filled stadiums with women like a ball-playing Tom Cruise? Now he's an ex-con, unwanted as a player after several arrests on weapons and assault charges and...

Swollen ex-slugger Jose Canseco lays waste to the game that made him famous in a shocking new book, outing several stars as steroid abusers, the Daily News has learned. The book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big," published by Regan Books and scheduled to hit bookstores Feb. 21, already is causing a firestorm in baseball circles. Players, agents, union officials and Major League Baseball executives have been burning up the phone lines over the past several days trying to find information about the book's contents. "Hoo boy," one top major league executive said....

Jose Canseco at the plate in 1990. (Otto Greule/Allsport) TAMPA, Fla. -- Jose Canseco claimed -- possibly with a straight face -- on Fox Sports Net this week that 85 percent of Major League Baseball players are taking steroids. "It's completely restructured the game as we know it," said Canseco, who has announced plans to write -- and apparently promote -- a tell-all book. "That's why guys are hitting 50 or 60 or 75 home runs." Canseco, who announced his retirement earlier in the week, would not disclose whether he took steroids. He promised that details about steroid use would...