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MLB Players' Union Expects Mets to Meet Financial Obligations

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) -- Union head Michael Weiner says the players' association is not worried about the lawsuit filed against New York Mets owners and its impact on the club's financial stability. Trustee Irving H. Picard, trying to recover money for victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, sued the Wilpon family...

Senators Urge MLB to Ban Tobacco Use

Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), right, and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent a letter to commissioner Bud Selig and MLB Players Union head Michael Weiner urging them to ban the use of smokeless tobacco in the upcoming collective bargaining agreement. MLB has come under growing scrutiny over the past year for allowing its...

MLB Players' Union Hails Government's Decision Not to Press Drug Test Case

NEW YORK (AP) -- The head of baseball's players' union calls the end of the case involving drug test results seized by the government "a significant victory for our members.'' The Justice Department said Friday it would not contest an appeals court ruling that said investigators illegally seized a list of players who...

Current MLB Playoff System Could Expand to 10 Teams

Michael Weiner, the new head of Major League Baseball's players' union, said that players are open to the possibility of adding more teams to the current playoff system and possibly changing the division series to a best-of-seven format. As it stands now, only eight of baseball's 30 teams – just 26.6 percent --...

Expert: Baseball's HGH Testing in Minors 'Major Step Forward'

News that minor league baseball players would soon be subject to random blood tests to detect human growth hormone was praised by the anti-doping community, even if others see faults in the screening method. "It's a major step forward," said Gary Wadler, a New York internist and chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency's...

Michael Weiner News From the Web

05/15/12 MLB Comes Off Looking Bad in Firing Shyam Das,... Source: NESN Major League Baseball is taking its ball and going home.
05/04/12 Day of Prayer draws crowd Source: Cleveland Daily Banner - Cleveland TN About 200 people prayed at noon Thursday for one nation under God on the National Day of Prayer at First Baptist Church on Stuart Road. National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held the first Thursday of May.
04/16/12 Dementia Progress Predicted By New MRI Technique Source: Medical News Today In the March 22 edition of Neuron , researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, reveal that a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique based on whole-brain tractography that maps the "communication wires" (neural pathways) that connect different regions of the brain, may predict the rate of progression and physical path of many degenerative brain diseases.
04/14/12 Jim Ingraham's iChart: Put the head of the MLBPA in... Source: The News-Herald - Willoughby OH Michael Weiner says major-league players who took steroids should be in the Hall of Fame.
04/14/12 Season's first week full of notable diamond moments:... Source: Cleveland.com The first week of games has come and gone.