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House approves renaming McGwire HighwayBy Newsdesk KRCG Tuesday, March 02, 2010 at 6:06 p.m. JEFFERSON CITY, MO. -- Missouri lawmakers are a step closer to taking away Mark McGwire's Highway. The stretch of Interstate 70 in St. Louis was named for the Cardinals' slugger in 1999, in one year McGwire hit 70 home runs. But McGwire has now admitted he used steroids, and the state senate voted unanimously yesterday to rename the section of interstate the Mark Twain Highway. The measure now goes to the house.

NEW YORK -- Mark McGwire finally came clean Monday, admitting he used steroids when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998. McGwire said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Monday that he used steroids on and off for nearly a decade. "I wish I had never touched steroids," McGwire said in a statement. "It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era." McGwire also used human growth hormone, a person close to McGwire said, speaking on condition of anonymity because McGwire didn't...

"I can't push this enough," Mark McGwire said addressing his Cardinals' players. "Steroids help you hit." McGwire, former Home Run King, will return to the St. Louis Cardinals as their new hitting coach, and he has a simple slogan: "Get Big...Illegally" McGwire proceeded to pull a Mike Singletary during his meeting and pull down his pants revealing his testicles had disappeared. "Would you rather have big balls or hit the balls big?" McGwire asked. The Cardinals players seemed to take to the slogan and clearly so did management. "I'm on board," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said. "Cheating is the...

A local sports radio station here in Denver mentioned this recently - Give it back to Maris Help restore the MLB homerun record to the rightful owner http://www.giveitbacktomaris.com/This website is designed for the sole purpose of setting the Major League Baseball Single Season Home Run Record straight. With the acknowledgement of an era of baseball where the legitimacy of every record is in doubt, we believe there is only one solution to the ongoing steroid controversy and mistrust that not only surrounds the game but has created doubt in the game for the last 16 years. That solution is for...

NEW YORK (SI.com) -- Beginning in 1998 with injections in his buttocks of Winstrol, a powerful steroid, Barry Bonds took a wide array of performance-enhancing drugs over at least five seasons...*SNIP* ...By 2001, when Bonds broke Mark McGwire's single-season home-run record (70) by belting 73, Bonds was using two designer steroids referred to as the Cream and the Clear, as well as insulin, human growth hormone, testosterone decanoate (a fast-acting steroid known as Mexican beans) and trenbolone, a steroid created to improve the muscle quality of cattle. BALCO tracked Bonds' usage with doping calendars and folders -- detailing drugs, quantities,...

Call the Class of 2006 for the National Baseball Hall of Fame the calm before the storm. Bruce Sutter was the only player who received enough votes from baseball writers to be elected to the Hall. And he barely got in, receiving just 1.9 percent more than the necessary 75 percent of the vote to gain entrance. So on July 30, the Sutter family will be in Cooperstown along with a few other tourists. Let's face it, the split-fingered fastball may have saved 300 games, but few fans will make a pilgrimage to pay homage to Bruce Sutter. He may...

ST. LOUIS -- Mark McGwire stands by his no comment. The St. Louis Cardinals season home run king made his first appearance at Busch Stadium this season on Friday as part of a final-weekend reunion at the 40-year-old ballpark. He said he had no regrets about his often-criticized testimony before Congress in March during steroids hearings, during which he repeatedly said "I'm not here to talk about the past." "I've moved on from it and I wish the media would," McGwire said. "I've made my statement in Washington, that's my statement, and when I left Washington that's the last time...

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....

N. Dakota senator says steroids nullifies Bonds, McGwire, SosaA North Dakota legislator is trying to muscle Roger Maris' 61-homer season back into baseball's record books because of allegations that the three players who have surpassed him did so with the help of steroids. "If these folks are on the juice, and I believe they're on the juice, then Roger should get his record back," Sen. Joel Heitkamp said. He's sponsoring a resolution that asks baseball commissioner Bud Selig to reinstate Maris' record of 61 home runs in 1961. A spokesman for baseball did not respond to a request for comment....

Once, he was compared to Babe Ruth. Thursday, he was compared to Enron. That's not what you call a great day on Capitol Hill. But that's the kind of day it was for a fallen living legend named Mark McGwire. People are never going to look at him the same now. Not after a day of dodging questions the way he once dodged fastballs steaming toward his eyebrows. Legally, of course, McGwire didn't have to answer those questions. Remember that. The men who wrote the Constitution handed him that right. So in a way, all he did was exercise his...

Have at it... Original Caption: Mark McWwire: Canseco's former teammate hit a then-record 70 home runs in 1998. He and Sosa were in a home-run race that renewed interest in baseball. 'What I will not do ... is participate in naming names and implicating my friends and teammates.' And yes, that is how the AP spelled his name in the caption.

The recipe called for 1/2 cc of testosterone cypionate every three days; one cc of testosterone enanthate per week; equipoise and winstrol v, 1/4 cc every three days, injected into the buttocks, one in one cheek, one in the other. It was the cocktail of a hardcore steroids user, and it is one of the "arrays," or steroid recipes, Mark McGwire used to become the biggest thing in baseball in the 1990s, sources have told the Daily News. Long before Jose Canseco claimed he injected McGwire in the behind in his tell-all autobiography "Juiced," the man known as Big Mac...

The possibilities were limitless. Mark McGwire could turn his name into a commodity, his image into a series of trinkets, his life into a string of appearances. Mark McGwire, Inc. He could take the time-honored farewell tour, be carted around the country like a traveling museum piece, human memorabilia, a walking item from the Home Shopping Network. He could enter the land of the perma-grins, with a gift and an ovation in every city. Hey, what do you know -- another recliner! Laughs and handshakes all around. It's been done before. But McGwire has always treated public ostentation the way...