Tougher baseball anti-doping deal struck

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Major League Baseball club owners and its players' union announced Friday they have agreed to changes in the anti-doping agreement that will bring more testing and greater independent oversight.

The moves were both among the recommendations from former US Senator George Mitchell in his December report after a 20-month probe on doping in baseball that named more than 80 players with links to performance-enhancing drugs.

But Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig he will not suspend players as a result of Mitchell's probe, eliminating 15-day bans set to be assessed against Kansas City's Jose Guillen and Jay Gibbons, formerly of Baltimore.

"It is time for the game to move forward," Selig said. "There is little to be gained at this point...