Presrcription probe could link more players to drugs: report

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Major League Baseball, already rocked by dozens of players linked to doping in a major probe, could see more players revealed as possible doping cheats thanks to a new federal probe.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that federal prosecutors in northern California are investigating physician Ramon Scruggs to learn if he illegally wrote prescriptions for patients, some of them Major League Baseball players.

Three unnamed lawyers who were briefed on the investigation told the newspaper about the links to an internet-based drug distribution ring uncovered last year in Florida and Alabama by investigators in Albany, New York.

Scruggs, who has not been charged with any crimes, was linked in last December's Mitchell Report to prescriptions...