Ex-Duke, UNC stars under cloud
Published: Fri, Dec. 14, 2007 12:30AM
Modified Fri, Dec. 14, 2007 03:02AM
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closeTwo major league baseball players with ties to the Triangle were named in former Sen. George Mitchell's steroids report released Thursday.
They are Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts, a Chapel Hill High graduate who played for UNC-Chapel Hill, and former Duke pitcher Scott Schoeneweis, who plays for the New York Mets.
A former Baltimore Orioles player claimed that in 2004, Roberts admitted to him that he had injected himself with steroids once or twice in 2003, according to the report.
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Roberts, 30, who was drafted by the Orioles in 1999, declined an interview with Mitchell, according to the report.
The former player, Larry Bigbie, who lived with Roberts and another former Oriole, David Segui, admitted taking steroids and cooperated with Mitchell's investigation, according to the report.
In 1997, Roberts started his college career at UNC, where his father, Mike Roberts, was head coach. He transferred to South Carolina after his father was fired.
The report said that representatives of the commissioner met with Schoeneweis after ESPN reported that he got six shipments of steroids at Comiskey Park in Chicago, while he was playing for the White Sox in 2004 and 2005. The commissioner's office concluded there was insufficient evidence to act against Schoeneweis, according to the report.
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