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Watch live video of the news conference regarding The Mitchell Report (steroids in baseball) at 11:00am PST/2:00pm EST.

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Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens and Yankees left-hander Andy Pettitte are the first names to emerge from the Mitchell Report.

The Associated Press learned the Mitchell Report, to be released Thursday, exposes a “serious drug culture within baseball, from top to bottom.” It said MVPs and All-Stars are involved and calls for beefed-up testing by an outside agency to clean up the game.

The report by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell will include names of 60 to 80 players linked to performance-enhancing substances and plenty more information that exposes “deep problems” afflicting the sport. Two sources with knowledge of the findings tell the AP the report will not address amphetamines.Mitchell, a Boston Red Sox director, plans to release his report at 2 p.m. during a Manhattan news conference. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig was to hold his own news conference a few blocks away 2½ hours later.

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