has failed to garner 25% of the vote and rafael palmeiro will be eligible with bonds, clemens and sosaiting in the wings. hall of famer ozzie smith offers his take on steroid-era players. >> we as hall of fame members have not had that conversation about exactly where each and every one of them -- i think from an individual standpoint we've all probably had something to say about it so we can only speak from a personal stand points and i think when you look at this era and everything that has transpired the only thing that you can do because there are people who were considered hall of famers before they were the accusations and i think the only thing you can do is put an asterisk by it and it has to read the numbers were accomplished during the steroid era. baseball has always been a game where we've always had an idea of what was real and what wasn't and this particular e era i don know if any of us know what's real and not because we don't know when a guy started using and stopped. from that standpoint it will be tough once guys that have been accused of using steroids make it to th

it's the same one that included sammy sosa. ortiz claims he had no knowledge of testing positive for any type of drugs. >> honestly right now i don't have no information about it. get more info about the situation. >> just hours after the news, ortiz was busy hitting the go ahead home run against the a's. three-run to shot gave boston 6-5 lead. a standing ovation. ortiz goes from zero to hero in a matter of hours. 8-5. dodgers trying to stop a four-game skit against the cards. they needed extra innings. kemp ripped a single to left and scored a pair. dodgers back in the win column with a 5-3 victory over st. louis. dodgers acquired cheryl. finally, check out this shot from the women's british open. becky brewer short approach on 11 up and into the cup on the fly. no bounce needed for that bird. off the pit and in. can't get much better than that. what a shot by brewerton. that's an early look at sports on "early today." have a good weekendment i'm fred roggin. >>> the expert forecast for your weekend at the box office. your ear

the infamous anonymous test they did, a-rod and sammy sosa were the first names to be linked. here's the irony. here's what ortiz said when a-rod's name came back out in february. >> i would suggest that everybody get tested. not random. everybody. you go team by team. you test everybody three, four times a year, and that's about it. ban them for the whole year. >> ban them for the whole year. >> to his credit he says the report is true. he's on the list. and he wanted to find out what he tested positive for and he'll share that when he finds out. >>> let's go to a good baseball story. 46-year-old jamey mirror is helping greevg kids that summer by sending them to camp. through his foundation he and his wife started camp aaron, kid whose have lost loved ones. they have 28 camps in 18 states funded through donations. they're weekendlong. they're free and have activities. they have group counseling sessions. i've seen it. they're amazing. for more go to moyerfoundation.org. >>> meet 97-year-old john colangelo who hit a hole-in-one. the former restaurant owner is known as johnny s

remember how sammy sosa used to wrap tape around the end of the bat? >> bob: yes. >> rob: adam has those custom made for his hand and they're as big as any knob at the end of the bat i've ever seen. >> bob: yeah, he's locked in right now. >> rob: on the road, .326, 12 homers, nine -- >> bob: 12-20 -- renyel pinto. >> rob: he's peppering that part of the plate. >> bob: right under his hands. >> rob: he struck ryan zimmerman out on a fastball right here. he struck out nick johnson on a fastball right there. there he gets ahead 1-2 on adam dunn. nope. >> bob: off-speed. >> rob: kind of slowed up his arms his whole delivery on that changeup. >> bob: josh willingham is next. roitd sheffield in '96 when i was here. 92 home runs and 120 rbi's. >> bob: he's got some batting eye. that's low. dunn has walked 60 times this year. >> rob: to show you how they never pitched to him that year, his on-base percentage was .465. he walked 142 times, struck out 66. >> bob: that's an amazing on- base average. >> rob: the most impressive thing, they never pitched to him. wh

the great latin american writers and i know this is to be in the same sentence with gabrielle and sosa is daunting, and those are authors who are household words in the united states. in latin america you are certainly as well-known as they are and what's interesting is all three of you are and journalists and you have this kind of immediacy even though we started out with a peace and we are going to read more pieces that was at the beginning of everything when man meets woman you talk about all of the war, the culture, the development of humankind. the scope is amazing and it's a daunting. i thought we would do a little bit of biography before we go on with the books. of course your name has been in the headlines in the united states because the president of venezuela, chavez, met our president, barack obama and owls a jester i think of friendship, he gave barack obama this book, "open veins of latin america." he gave it to him i understand in spanish which was a little difficult because obama doesn't read spanish but i think the intention was to give him a book that if he were to rea

sammy sosa and a rod named to the same list. at madison square garden tonight, mystics trying to say above 500 from new york. and they did. she poured in 28. six wins, 75-75. they are 10-8. finally tonight as can you imagine, the proliferation of golf carts over the year has decimated the caddy industry. and now, yes, llamas as caddies. you can loop your 18 holes not with a dolly llama but with an actual llama. operators say each llama can comfortably carry two bags. >> they do need a guy to go behind the llama. >> to shovel the sand trap. >> to trim the rough anyhow. >> they eat it up. >> that's right. >> we have to go. >>> tonight get more bong for your buck. a california kidb@ sol donors to pay for his college. (mom) i'm not going to be able to see her every day. or sit on her bed and talk about her day. but she's ready. thanks to walmart's unbeatable prices, i was able to get her everything she needed. as well as what she wanted. letting go? mom! (mom) that's the hard part. set them up for success, for less. save money. live

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. >> reporter: one by one names are coming out among them, barry bonds, sammy sosa and alex rodriguez, who admitted to doping earlier this year. initial reaction on the internet to the latest news, ranged from anguished to blase. outside fenway park, many of the faithful were giving their favorites a pass. >> you know they're humans. i'm not looking up to them as super heroes. nothing is a shock anymore. >> a good guy. >> reporter: in los angeles, ramirez just coming off a suspension for drug use last year, is still hitting grand slams and is wildly popular. >> fans can rationalize any behavior by their own player while heaping scorn on players who compete for other teams. >> reporter: late today, ortiz says he was blindsided by the news. >> but right now i don't have no answer. >> reporter: america's favorite pastime, once again, mired in controversy. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> now to the pacific northwest where the story tonight is the heat. in parts of the northwest, heat records are being shattered, in seattle, take one, parts of oregon, temperatures this week are over

>> rob: anybody who is associated with them, palmeiro, sosa, maguire. >> bob: look at this kid play centerld. nyjer morgan runs some really nice routes. that was a great jump and it made the play not even need a dive at the end.   >> david wrote a book called have heart, he talks about how rick helped him as a coach at florida and how he still helps him during the off-season even today and he's really contributed to his big league career. we'll have more on the two brothers tomorrow on "nats xtra." this is definitely a can't miss. what an incredible family, a lot of drive and perseverance for both these young guys. >> bob: it's a family that's had a lot of sickness, a lot of health issues from the parents on down, and david's a terrific kid. we thought he might be back today from the pulled cam string but he's still on the d.l., i asked david eckstein yesterday if he ever calls his brother for hitting advice when things don't go well. >> rob: i was there in st. louis when david eckstein was given the world series mvp, he's one of my favorite players. >> bob: not many sho

they join alex rodriguez and sammy sosa as players whose positive tests from 2003 became public.ter who broke the story for the "new york times" was asked if he thinks the whole list of 104 will eventually become public? >> i think that this is under a court seal. the players association would not to it. i don't think the commissioner's office want thes names out there either. it will stay the way it is. it raises questions about the red sox who have been unscathed by the steroids stuff. the yankees have been bathered and had their championships called into questions. >> david ortiz and manny ramirez store up the majors in 2003 when they post tested positive for performance enhancing drugs: >> we are asking you the fan to go on to espn.com right now and vote. peter gammons gets the impression the fans are over the steroids era. should the list from 2003 be released? you vote. yes or no on espn.com right now. we will reveal the results later in the show. >> you could not have scripted it like this. hollywood would not believe it. david ortiz first at-bats in an afternoon game. the

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i wouldn't mind seeing sosa up here.dunn a pop-up. two strikeouts today. >> rob: keep throwing the way you are throwing, jorge. you'll be here. >> bob: he would rather face stetter based on the comments afterward. >> rob: i think he would rather take the breaking ball down than trying to hit that change up. adam dunn gets one to center. how much of it did he get? two outs. if will be up to ryan zimmerman. as he hit a laser beam to left center. >> sometimes that's all it takes to be our ford drive of the game one swing of the wood.   zimmerman one for three. 1 homers, the brewers are one out away from getting a split in the series. and the nats had a winnable game last night. and they led again today.    0-2 to zimmerman. ground ball felipe lopez. ballgame over. series over. and the brewers come back and salvage the series by winning the next two. two hours and 38 minutes. a 7-3 win. the nats only had five hits all day. we are back in a minute. good a. ya know not everyone gets to keep the

mcgwire refused to talk about the past and sosa wasn't comfortable. but, palmeiro, wagged his finger. and he stated, i have never used steroids, period. that august, baseball suspense he had him for using a banned substance. he has kept quiet since and he spoke to pedro today. >> as a kid, when i was in college, you know, when i made it to the big leagues, i didn't need anything. everybody saw me. they saw what i did. they saw the kind of player that i was. i didn't have to cheat. you know, at the end of my career, for what? what was i going to gain from it? >> you made a mistake. >> whatever i took. it was tainted. had to have been. had to have been. no other -- no other reason for me to be, unless i got set up. i don't know. >> so that was not -- >> no, i mean, the reports, you know what the reports are. what i took was a b-12 that was given to me by a teammate. so, that's all, that is it. that was it. >> what about from congress? do you have any regret, about what you said? >> no, not not at all. because i never had taken anything. i never took any

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sosa sugared is unemployment insurance and old age insurance. as of 1939, almost nobody was getting anything out of the social security. people were putting money in but this is the way it is, we all pay for years and years and then we retire later. but as of 1939 almost nobody was getting money out. so it would have been an easy matter if roosevelt had been replaced by a republican after the 1940 election to dismantle social security. that would have been that. this historical accident i talked about was the second world war which made it possible for roosevelt to run for a third term. it was elected not on the bases of support for the new deal but because americans believe it was a bad policy to change courses in midstream. a result of this was about the new deal got not just for years more, not just a fact not even eight years more because harry truman pulled an upset victory in 1948. until 1953 before the new deal was seriously challenged by which time there were tens of millions of americans who were receiving social security checks. they w

the same list included alex rodriguez and sammy sosa.iz, however, claims he no knowledge of testing positive for any type of drug. >> i know it's been -- honestly right now i have no information about it. i'm going to get more input a about the situation, and i'm going to honestly see what's up. >> just hours after the news, ortiz was busy hitting the go-ahead home run against the a's. a three-run shot. and a standing ovation. ortiz goes from zero to a here know a matter of hour. red sox beat the a's 8-5. manny trying to stop a skid gets against the cards. needed more innings. a 5-3 victory over st. louis. >>> another baseball note, dodgers akwured george sherrill from the orioles for a pair of prospects. >>> a basketball note, lamar odom, three years team option for a fourth. if he plays all four years the deal is worth about $33 million. >>> check out these shots from the women's british open. becky in an approach on 11 is up and goes into the cup on the fly. no bounce needed for that bird. off the pin and in. can't get much better tha

run champ didn't name anyone in particular, but recent stars like barry bonds, mark mcguire, sammy sosa have all been accused, and have admitted to steroid use. >>> soap box racing. the 70-second all american soapbox derby. 70 seconds. ten-year-old sara whitaker. she was among the girls who won four of the six divisions. >>> okay. the craziest thing you've probably ever seen on a golf course. this is lee olton on the 15th hole. his tee shot hits the other ball and goes in for the hole in one. now, it's the seventh hole in one at the tournament this week. the fourth on this hole, which had never given a hole in one in 20 years previously. by the way, if anyone else gets one today, they're out of cars. you're just out of luck. you can walk home. that's sports. >>> a business sure to fill you up on this week's how we got started. customers were willing to stand in line for tacos at this houston hot spot. >> we opened in december of 1977. my mother started it with one lady making tortillas. >> they originally built it out of necessity. >> she had six kids, she had a lot of experience workin