THE UNIVERSITY'S DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
SPORTS
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Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young scramblies away from New Orleans Saints defender Brian Young as Titans offensive lineman Jacob Bell blocks during the first half of the NFL game Monday night in New Orleans. Vince Young threw two touchdown passes, and the Titans defense intercepted Saints quarterback Drew Brees four times in the 31-14 N.Y. victory.
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Baltimore Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada tags out the Kansas City Royals' Joey Gathright at second base during a game Monday in Baltimore. The Orioles swept the Royals for the season
Royals lose 3-2, remain in last place
BY DAVID GINSBURG ASSOCIATED PRESS
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BALTIMORE — Nick Markakis hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles completed a season sweep of the Kansas City Royals with a 3-2 victory Monday night.
The Orioles went 7-0 against the Royals. It's only the sixth time in club history that Baltimore swept a season series from an AL opponent.
The game was a makeup from an April 15 game. The announced attendance was 15,769, but there were no more than a few thousand fans in the stands.
Markakis hit his 22nd homer on an 0-1 pitch from Gil Meche (9-13), who allowed seven hits in his first complete game of the season.
Kansas City trailed 2-1 in the eighth before Mark Grudzielanek tied it with his first career pinch-hit home run in 1,682 major league games. The drive came against Jamie Walker (3-2), who was making his club-record 80th appearance of the season.
Chad Bradford pitched the mnn for his second save.
Orioles starter Daniel Cabrera allowed one run and six hits in seven innings. He left with a 2-1 lead, but Grudzielanek's homer made
the right-hander 0-5 in seven starts since Aug. 14.
Mchee retired 11 straight batters before Ramon Hernandez hit a one-out single in the fifth. One out later, Tike Redman delivered an RBI double for a 1-0 lead, and Brian Roberts walked before Melvin Mora singled in a run.
The Royals got a run in the sixth when Esteban German singled and scored on a two-out double by Mark Teahen.
With two on and two outs in the catch, Redman made a diving catch of a sinking liner to center by German to preserve the lead.
The victory enabled the Oriones to move three games ahead of last-place Tampa Bay in the AL East. Kansas City, bidding to avoid a last-place finish for a fourth straight season, fell a game behind fourth place Chicago in the AL Central.
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Steroid operations busted
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Nation's largest federal crackdown results in more than 120 arrests; China, other countries help investigate dealers' foreign connections
BY ERIC TUCKER ASSOCIATED PRESS
This undated image provided by the Drug Enforcement Agency shows containers holding vials of steroids confiscated on Long Island, N.Y., during the DEA's Operation Raw Deal. More than 120 people were arrested in an 18-month international investigation of illicit steroid labs, the DEA announced Monday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. Federal authorities announced the largest crackdown on illegal steroids in the nation's history Monday, arresting more than 120 people and raiding dozens of labs that manufactured growth hormone for sale on the black market.
Agents seized 56 labs, many of which were located in dirty basements, and recovered 11.4 million doses of steroids, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"We were a little bit stunned at the amount of labs we found as a result of this investigation." DEA spokesman Garrison Courtney said in Washington. "It's not something that's on a scale that we've ever seen."
The announcement follows a growing number of scandals in the sports world over steroids, but authorities said the probe was focused on distributors, not users, and that no professional athletes were directly involved in the investigation.
U. S. investigators were helped by governments of nine other countries, including China, which is hosting the 2008 Olympics. Among those facing charges are a Chinese manufacturer accused of smuggling human growth hormone into the U.S. and others who allegedly got steroids from China and sold them to U.S. customers.
The probe, dubbed Operation Raw Deal, targeted manufacturers of raw materials needed to produce steroids, as well as steroid labs in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Agents also investigated Web sites offering kits to convert
steroids into injectable forms and Internet discussion boards frequented by bodybuilders.
"Even though their storefront is the Internet, rather than the street corner, the people who engage in the smuggling and distribution of these substances are drug dealers, plain and simple, and we will treat them accordingly," said Robert Clark Corrente, U.S. attorney for Rhode Island. Federal prosecutors in San Diego, New York, Houston, Kansas City and New Haven, Conn., made similar announcements.
The labs' customers could include high school athletes, bodybuilders and ordinary adults who simply want to look better, officials said.
"As we start to dig into this, I would have to believe that we're going to find customers who are in fact high school kids," said Steve Robertson, another DEA spokesman.
The DEA said 143 federal search warrants were issued during the 18-month investigation, many of them since Thursday. The FBI, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Food and Drug Administration were also involved.
In all, investigators seized more than 500 pounds of raw steroid ingredients that originated in China.
Other countries participating in the investigation were Mexico, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Thailand.
Police in Denmark raided 26 locations across the country. Germany's federal criminal office said its agents closed five illicit labs and confiscated tens of thousands of illicit tablets and capsules as part of searches carried out in five of the nation's 16 states.
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