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U.S. says Bonds failed steroid test after record
Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:11pm EST
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Baseball home run king Barry Bonds tested positive for steroids in November 2001, just a month after hitting his record 73rd home run of the season, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.
The allegation came in a legal filing in his steroid perjury case which referred to Bonds' long-time trainer, Greg Anderson.
"At trial, the government's evidence will show that Bonds received steroids from Anderson in the period before the November 2001 positive drug test, and that evidence raises the inference that Anderson gave Bonds the steroids that caused him to test positive in November 2001," U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello wrote.
Russoniello, acting for the U.S. government, made the assertion in a do ent that asked a federal court to reject Bonds' motion last month to dismiss the charges that he lied about past steroid use.
Dennis Riordan, one of Bonds' lawyers, said the slugger's defense team would respond to the filing by next Thursday and would not have immediate comment on Thursday.
In December, the record seven-time National League Most Valuable Player pleaded not guilty to lying to a federal grand jury in 2003 when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
He testified in the BALCO sports steroid case, which ended up jailing his personal trainer, Anderson, and the head of the BALCO lab near San Francisco.
The latest government motion also referred to a question by a prosecutor during the BALCO case to "determine why Bonds apparently tested positive for anabolic steroids in November 2000."
To date, prosecutors have revealed little about the evidence they have in the case against Bonds, the greatest hitter of his era long dogged by su ions about doping.
The motion to dismiss the case has prompted prosecutors to reveal a bit more of their hand.
They referred to a calendar "that showed that 'BB' received steroids in December 2001." The filing further alleged that Bonds discussed or took human growth hormone.
Referring to a question as to whether Anderson talked to Bonds about or gave him human growth hormone, Bonds said no. "The government will show at trial only that Bonds' answer to that portion of the question is knowingly false," the motion said.
The latest details to emerge in the ever-widening baseball doping scandal came just a day after Roger Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers in Major League Baseball history, clashed under oath with his former trainer at a congressional hearing over the trainer's claims he injected Clemens with illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
A U.S. federal judge in San Francisco is expected to hold a hearing on Bonds' motion to dismiss the case on February 29.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...50577020080215
7 minutes...you beat me to it ...
so they know he did it then but they let him to continue to break records?
beautiful... you barry.
umm details? That's about as vague as can be
Apparently, it was a typo and the story is moot.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3246675
What? ESPN would never just run a story that was not true
shocking story here
I don't get it... he failed a test; does it matter if it was 2000 or 2001?
Yes, it does matter. We've known about the November 2000 test for quite some time. It was done by Balco and is said to be the only sample with a name on it (Barry B).
All samples were done by number, not name, according to Conte.
A positive test in 2001 would have been new evidence.
The underlying issue for the fan is, he failed a test. John Q Fan doesn't care about perjury charges or BALCO or the clear and the cream... all they care about is Bonds used roids.
Allegedly failed a test.
It'll all shake out, but it looks to be sketchy, at best, right now.
Maybe the gov't misremembered how to file court do ents.
So, what's the end story here? Bonds gets vindication in the perjury case, gets to say there is no hard evidence he ever took steriods and still gets to say he was duped as to what the clear and the cream were. Nothing will ever stick to or be proven about him but he will always be a cheater to everyone who isn't a Giants fan or a black journalist.
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