Rick Martel, Roddy Piper, Daniel Spivey and Brian Blair faced the crowded court room and admitted they used the muscle-building drugs.

After the Olympics, Carl Lewis, the American sprinter, intimated that Griffith Joyner and unidentified other American female track athletes had used banned muscle-building drugs.

Doctors have long emphasized the dangers of muscle-building drugs.

He also said some players sold the muscle-building drug, which is banned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Both ownership and the players have been widely criticized for not facing up to the use of legal muscle-building drugs that gave new muscles to Mark McGwire and many other sluggers.

Hearns and his manager, Emanuel Steward, have accused Leonard of using the muscle-building drugs, which are prohibited by the council.

In Miami, a veteran outfielder says he believes as many as 40 percent of major leaguers have used the muscle-building drugs.

Darrin Jackson, an outfielder who retired from the Chicago White Sox last year, said he sometimes found it difficult to resist the suspicion that other players were using muscle-building drugs.

He was one of 34 people charged with illegally selling and distributing the muscle-building drugs.