... to address the imbalance between the large- and small-market teams. Still, the growing chasm between the proverbial haves and have-nots in the NHL is a worry for NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. While he hesitates to use the words "salary cap," it's clear Bettman will attempt to hammer some form of wage control from the NHL Players' Association when the current ... free-agent signings is an indication that teams aren't losing money. If you're confused at this point, consider some comments from two other sources. The first is NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. He has spent the past season tell...

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... ,000 former East German swimmers have found that they have liver damage, diabetes, cancers and other serious effects of forced steroid drugging by their national trainers." (Wadler, 7/13/03) Dr. Gary Wadler, consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice on anabolic-androgenic steroid use, stresses that "unlike almost all other drugs, all steroid based hormones have one unique characteristic - their dangers may ... ...

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... just don't get broken." Of course almost every single one baseball players accused of taking steroids denies it. A San Francisco Chronicle report in February claimed that Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and other professional athletes received steroids from BALCO, a San Francisco-area nutritional supplements lab that is under federal investigation. The report helped spark a controversy as spring training opened, that ... ...

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... newer model looked oddly super-sized. Then came the federal investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, Bonds testified before a grand jury last fall. So did Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, this caused a different type of gossip and when training camps opened this year, so did a new kind of spring scrimmage. These actions were publicized so much that the president ... ...

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