The disclosure that there would be expanded testing in baseball came 24 hours after the members of the Baseball Writers Association of Americaa delivered a tough verdict on the role that performance-enhancing drugs have played in the sport, emphatically rejecting the first-time candidacies of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens because of their direct links to such substances.
He emphasized his first-time candidacy as a virtue to help tame a $3 billion budget deficit, and attract more jobs.
Given Mr. Bloomberg's financial advantage, that would appear to be to the disadvantage of Mr. Green, particularly after a stretch in which even Mr. Bloomberg's supporters expressed concern about his first-time candidacy.
But the unorthodox character of Dr. Dean's candidacy -- and the nature of his support from men and women who have been drawn into politics for the first time by his candidacy -- has turned Dr. Dean into a difficult target for conventional political attacks.
Mr. Clinton stepped in for Mrs. Clinton on Sunday for the first time since she announced her candidacy, speaking at a breakfast of Westchester County Democrats in New York.
In the course of his speech, Trump tried, for the first time since announcing his Presidential candidacy, to roll out his policy on one of the thorniest issues facing American leaders.
She said her husband's candidacy was "the first time in a while that people have felt energized, and that energy isn't just fluff".
The insight seemed prescient on Friday as he filed a report with the Federal Election Commission that outlined for the first time the financial woes of his candidacy, which he ended on Aug. 14 after placing third at the Iowa straw poll in Ames.
Michelle Obama gave a hint of the dynamics of this situation when during the Ohio primary she commented that with her husband's candidacy she for the first time was proud to be an American.
On Sunday, at an unrelated event in Huntington, N.Y., on Long Island, Ms. Gillibrand addressed the potential candidacy of Mr. Ford for the first time, saying, "Every candidate makes their own decision whether to run or not".
On Tuesday, his wife Huma Abedin, who had been pregnant when the story first broke, stood by his side as he vowed to press ahead with his New York mayoral candidacy and spoke for the first time.
