Doping

NEW YORK - Hank Aaron's verdict on baseball's steroid scandal: "Saddened." Aaron, long reluctant to weigh in too strongly on the stories involving steroids and baseball, said Tuesday he'll keep sticking with that tact in the cases of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, both accused of lying about using steroids and facing trial next spring "I'm just saddened by it," said Aaron, who held the all-time home run record until Bonds broke it in 2007.

WATERLOO, Ontario - A steroid scandal in Canada that resulted in the suspension of the University of Waterloo football team for 2010 has produced the first positive test for human growth hormone in North America.

LONDON - British anti-doping authorities will provide the country's athletes with biological passports in an effort to deter the use of banned substances ahead of the London 2012 Olympics.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky horse racing officials agreed Tuesday to bankroll six new research grants to be conducted through the University of Kentucky, the first such projects in more than a decade approved by the cash-strapped panel that oversees the state's signature industry.