Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005 | 10:51 a.m.
FBI agent says he warned baseball
FBI Special Agent Greg Stajskal claimed today in a New York Daily News article that he warned Major League Baseball about 10 years ago that some of its players were using steroids, but baseball executives failed to act on the information.
Stejskal said he told baseball security chief Kevin Hallinan that Jose Canseco and other players were using illegal anabolic steroids.
"I alerted Major League Baseball back in the time when we had a case, that Canseco was a heavy user and that they should be aware of it," Stejskal told the Daily News. "I spoke to the people in their security office, Hallinan was one of the people I spoke to."
Stejskal also told the newspaper there wasn't much baseball could do at the time since MLB and the players' union didn't have steroid testing program or disciplinary actions in place until 2002.
Baseball officials denied they were told of steroid use, and Hallinan told the Daily News, "It did not happen. Not with this guy, not with anyone else."
The agent told the paper that the FBI's investigation in the 1990s centered in Michigan and dealt with weightlifters and bodybuilders, but that the probe spread to California, Florida, Canada and Mexico.
"There's very little question the use of steroids was very widespread in baseball," Stejskal told the newspaper. "And Major League Baseball, in effect, they didn't sanction it, but they certainly looked the other way."
New York makes pitch
As Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff described the details of next week's presentation to the International Olympic Committee's evaluation commission, he made it clear Monday that he would do everything shy of personally installing the NYC2012 banners that will drape storefronts, buildings and utility poles around New York City.
Doctoroff is tackling the four-day visit with the same full-throttle energy that IOC members have come to know during his extensive lobbying.
Doctoroff estimated that he was in eight countries in the past few weeks. In the past year and a half, Doctoroff said he had 300 meetings with IOC members and had gotten to know almost all of the 117 members who will select the host city July 6. New York, Paris, London, Madrid or Moscow are competing to play host to the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Stanford picks aide
Tom Hayes, a longtime college coach who also spent five years as an assistant with the Washington Redskins, was hired Monday to be defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Stanford. Hayes had previously been defensive coordinator at UCLA, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Winless season done
Savannah (Ga.) State became just the second NCAA Division I basketball team in 50 years to go through a season winless when the Tigers fell 49-44 to visiting Florida A&M. Despite its closest loss of the season, Savannah State fell to 0-28.
Open goes overseas
The U.S. Open will hold 36-hole qualifiers in Japan and England this year, the first time players will be allowed to qualify outside the United States, June 6 at Ono Golf Club near Kobe, Japan, and at Walton Heath Golf Club in England.
U.S. team in tuneups
The U.S. soccer team will play Colombia on March 9 at Fullerton, Calif., and Honduras on March 19 at Albuquerque to prepare for World Cup qualifiers against Mexico and Guatemala.
Boston gets richer
Winners of this year's Boston Marathon will receive $100,000, a 25 percent increase over the 2004 prize money. The total purse for the 109th running of the race will be $575,000.
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