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The teams did not want to play a double- header Wednesday night because they have an afternoon game Thursday. After this week, the Astros do not play in Pittsburgh again until September. The postponement was the Pirates’ second during what was supposed to be a 10-game homestand. Their scheduled game Thursday against the Cubs was postponed until May 28. U.S. Olympic official crack down on steroid By Bob Gloster THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jockey caught with shocker ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — The state Racing Commission has suspended a jockey caught with a small device that generates an electric jolt to prod race horses to run faster. The racing license of Abdel Torres, 21, of Odessa, Texas, was suspended for five years, and he was fined $1,500 last week, said India Hatch, commission executive director. A commission investigator, conducting a random jockey search, discovered the buzzer Feb. 21 wrapped in a bandage on Torres’ wrist at Sunland Park racetrack, Hatch said. A second buzzer was dropped by someone in the group of jockeys being searched, but investigators could not determine which jock ey had it, she said Monday. The horse Torres was riding before the dis covery, Taken for a Dream, did not win the race, Hatch said. Torres' racing license could be reinstated in three years, but he would remain on pro bation for two years after the reinstatement, she said. Before the bust, a buzzer had not been found at any of the state’s four racetracks in at least 10 years, Hatch said. “If they’re starting to reappear, we’re just going to crack down. That’s why we're here — to keep it clean," she said. Texans release safety Dennis HOUSTON (AP) —The Houston Texans on Tuesday released safety Pat Dennis and tight end Rashod Kent after offseason acquisitions made them expendable. Dennis, 25, is a four-year veteran who joined the Texans in 2002 but played sparing ly because of injury. The Texans created a crowd at safety last weekend by drafting two and moving Marcus Coleman to free safety from cornerback. Kent, 23, was a basketball player at Rutgers who switched to football when he joined the Texans in 2002. The recent signing of veteran Mark Bruener made him expendable. SAN FRANCISCO — Exactly 108 days before the start of the Athens Games, U.S. Olympic officials are pleading with federal authorities for help in trying to make sure no drug cheaters qualify for the American team. “We’re concerned first that we have a clean team participating in the games. Secondly, we are concerned we have a team that is free of specula tion about whether it is clean in these games,” U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Jim Scherr said in a telephone interview' with The Associated Press. “And we do not want any lingering suspicions or positive tests coming out of the games.” The USOC is not just targeting ath letes who have failed drug tests. Instead, officials hope to utilize a clause in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s rules to bar athletes who acknowledge the use of steroids and other banned substances, including in grand jury testimony. Section 9 of the USADA’s protocol gives that agency the authority to bring a drug case against an athlete in lieu of a positive drug lest “when USADA has other reason to believe that a potential doping violation has occurred, such as admitted doping.” “Our image is going to be just Fine if we send a clean team.” acting USOC president Bill Martin said in a telephone interview' Monday. “The last thing we want to happen is to select the wrong folks. “America does not want to send a dirty team to Athens, but the ball’s not in our hands right now. Time is truly of the essence." Martin and Scherr want the USADA to get access to grand jury transcripts in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative case involving the alleged distribution of steroids to top athletes. While such grand jury proceedings are secret by law, the Senate Commerce Committee chaired by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has issued a subpoena for the BALCO testimony. That could override the secrecy provi sion. according to Rory Little, a Hastings College of the Law scholar and a former federal prosecutor in San Francisco. Little said it would be “highly unusual for the Department of Justice to be giving up grand jury material in the middle of an investigation.” But on 1 1 he re< natioi leade Aimed Yas Abdel Aziz been met w ate, if inixe from peoplt world. It’s i even if the Justice Departmer; longed such a subpoena, Lin!e court could order that suchdoci; be released. Justice Department spots Mark Corallo said Monday he4) know whether any material Ins turned over to McCain’s com Rebecca Hanks, a spokeswon McCain, declined to comment. According to an AP polh Monday, 92 percent of Am believe the use of steroids and performance-enhancing dm Olympic athletes is a problem Forty-three percent of 1110,1 ll - responding to the survey calkR 11111171 " 10 major problem; another 49 pj see m .is a minor problem. B nu( ' a ’ 1 v 1 Only 6 percent don’t considrB 1 ^ 11 ^ 1 ^ problem. Craig Masback, the head oil Track & Field, hopes evidence I drug use is unveiled as quick!) J sible "so that the guilty willbel ished and the innocent will beJ of suspicion.” "That is all we can do,”Mil said. "We did not do the tests,.; not lest the samples. Wedidnoi: federal investigation, we done] the affidavits, we were not: grand jury.” Last weekend, two U.S.J stars — Marion Jones and boyfriend, Tim Montgomen- connected in reports to 6,11 founder Victor Conte. The San Francisco Chron:,; the San Jose Mercury News,™ hu h, sources who requested anorBrrorists a reported that Conte told 1™ voir ago agents he gave steroids in kBivissiium Montgomery. Bar rather Jones, who won five medal :B ;nirt Are 2000 Olympics, and Montgoir®* acl ot ' world record-holder at 1001 repeatedly have denied steroids] An attorney for Jones said never received steroids An attorney for Conte sudk provided steroids to Jones Montgomery, and never gave information to federal agents. Jones and Montgomen among dozens of athletes - ing baseball sluggers Bam and Jason Giambi — who lest before the grand jury that Conte. No athletes were indie Conte and three othermen ing Bonds’ personal trainer.] been charged with providing sie: to professional athletes, pleaded innocent. J ixt, many legitimacy frst place, necessary e that is somi bring down world leade embracing I “I can u iscriticizin irg Hamas, accept thes Swedish Pr Persson tol P - ess. 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