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Buster Olney writes that when Ryan Braun won the appeal of his positive test for performance-enhancing drugs, it highlighted a much different opinion among players than it would have 10 or 20 years ago. Today, players want cheaters caught.

Blog | Conversation | March 01, 2012

While providing more prospects to the States, the state of America's pastime in Europe is making big gains in popularity.

Buster Olney speaks with several people from around baseball to try to get a handle on how Mark McGwire's recent confession is being received throughout the sport. Plus, answers to readers' questions on McGwire, and news and notes from around the league.

Blog | Conversation | January 13, 2010

Davey Johnson, who guided the U.S. team to a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics, has been picked to manage at the World Baseball Classic this spring.

Players' union leader Donald Fehr would consider approving blood testing for human growth hormone if there were a valid, efficient procedure for determining its use over an extended period.

The United States and Cuba, the gold medalists two years ago, are the favorites among 12 teams competing for two direct Olympic slots.

USA Baseball retired the number of former pitcher Steve Reich, who was killed in Afghanistan last year.

Kimmie Meissner, who won the World Figure Skating Championships title last month, threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Camden Yards before the Orioles-Angels game.

Francisco Liriano flashed the nasty stuff that makes him one of the most prized pitching prospects in baseball, and the Dominican Republic held off Australia 6-4 Friday night to finish undefeated in the first round of the World Baseball Classic.

With a number of matters that remain either undecided or unclear, here are nine innings of questions about the World Baseball Classic.

Baseball and other major U.S. professional leagues have made progress battling steroid use but not enough for Congress to back off on legislation, a key Republican lawmaker said Thursday.

Greece won for the first time ever in Olympic baseball Saturday night, getting 14 hits from its Greek-American lineup to beat Italy 12-7 in a showdown between the two weakest teams in the eight-nation tournament.

The Greek Olympic baseball team has sufficient financial backing to go to Greece after working out next month in the United States, an official of the Baltimore Orioles said Saturday.

The Greek Olympic baseball team is so short of cash that it has no funds to return for the games after training in the United States, a top official said Friday.

Greece's Olympic baseball coach threatened to quit Thursday to protest a roster that includes just two local players.

Sources say pulling together a World Cup-style tournament by next March might not be possible.

Story | Conversation | June 29, 2004