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NEWS IN BRIEF
Cold postpones Astros game
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Houston
Astros-Pittsburgh Pirates game Tuesday
night was postponed because of cold weath
er and the threat of snow showers and rain
later in the evening.
The game was called at 5:20 p.m., even
though it wasn’t raining, temperatures were
still in the 40s and the pitchers for both teams
were throwing and running on the field.
The game will be made up as part of a 5:05
p.m. doubleheader Sept. 9 during what now
becomes a five-game series Sept. 9-12.
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
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