... , as well as other large city teams (Staudohar 8). Two sports presently have salary caps set that have no circumstances for different teams or players. These sports are baseball and hockey. Gary Bethman, Commissioner of the National Hockey League, offered an idea to the NBA commissioner concerning the leagues salary cap (Staudohar 4). On March 31, 1983, the first salary cap in sports ... ...

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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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