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Bud Selig talks MLB steroid era: 'I honestly don't know what else I could have done'

Bud Selig was Major League Baseball's commissioner during its infamous steroid era, but is now a professor at the University of Wisconsin. Every once and a while, his students give him the third degree about one of baseball's darkest stains.

One day after being informed he would be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Selig spoke with ESPN.com, and admitted his students are "tough" on him.

"They asked me, 'When were you aware of it?'" Selig recalled Monday, "and, 'Why didn't you do more?'"

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Selig, who has long maintained the stance that he should not receive any blame for players' rampant steroid use during his tenure, was quick to point out, again, that he feels he did all he could.