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SportsMay 18, 2002

TAMPA, Fla. -- Jose Canseco claims 85 percent of major league baseball players are taking steroids. "There would be no baseball left if they drug-tested everyone today," he said Friday during an interview with Fox Sports Net. Canseco, who announced his retirement earlier in the week, refused to say if he took steroids...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Jose Canseco claims 85 percent of major league baseball players are taking steroids.

"There would be no baseball left if they drug-tested everyone today," he said Friday during an interview with Fox Sports Net.

Canseco, who announced his retirement earlier in the week, refused to say if he took steroids.

"It's completely restructured the game as we know it," he said. "That's why guys are hitting 50 or 60 or 75 home runs."

During an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, Canseco refused to answer questions about steroid use, saying he would give details in the book he is writing.

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INDIANS: Pitcher C.C. Sabathia was robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning at a downtown hotel by a group of men, who stole his necklace, earrings and wallet.

Indians assistant general manager Neal Huntington said Sabathia and a cousin went back to the Marriott Hotel with a group of people they had just met at a nightclub.

As Sabathia, 21, and a cousin were getting ready to leave, two or three men pulled guns, Huntington said. Sabathia called hotel security after the men left.

OBITUARY: Joe Black, the Brooklyn Dodgers' right-hander who became the first black pitcher to win a World Series game, died Friday of prostate cancer. He was 78.

Black, in failing health for months, died at the Life Care Center of Scottsdale.

-- From wire reports

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