Mitchell Report to be Released Today

NEW YORK (AP) - Judgment Day has arrived for baseball's steroids
era.
The Associated Press learned the Mitchell Report, to be released
today, exposes a "serious drug culture within baseball, from top
to bottom." It says MVPs and All-Stars are involved and calls for
beefed-up testing by an outside agency to clean up the game.
The report by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell will
include names of 60 to 80 players linked to performance-enhancing
substances and plenty more information that exposes "deep
problems" afflicting the sport. Two sources with knowledge of the
findings tell the AP the report will not address amphetamines.
Mitchell, a Boston Red Sox director, plans to release his report
at 2 p.m. during a Manhattan news conference. Baseball commissioner
Bud Selig was to hold his own news conference a few blocks away 2½
hours later.
Mitchell was hired by Selig in March 2006 after the publication
of "Game of Shadows," a book by two San Francisco Chronicle
reporters about slugger Barry Bonds' alleged steroid use.