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Report: Bonds Admitted Using Substances
Friday, December 03, 2004
•Giambi's Reported Steroid Use May Cost Him •BALCO Head: Marion Jones Took Steroids•Giambi Told Grand Jury He Used Steroids•BALCO Founder: Marion Jones Used Steroids•Testimony Could Cost Giambi Millions•Judge Won't Dismiss BALCO Steroid Charges
SAN FRANCISCO — Baseball player Barry Bonds (search) told a federal grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring but denied knowing they were steroids, according to a report published Friday.
Bonds, the San Francisco Giants slugger, testified last year that Greg Anderson (search), his personal trainer, told him that the substances he used in 2003 were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis, according to a transcript of his testimony reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Click to read the San Francisco Chronicle report.
The substances Bonds described were similar to ones known as "the clear" and "the cream," two steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (search), the lab at the center of the steroid scandal.
Grand jury transcripts are sealed and the newspaper did not say who showed it the documents. Bonds' attorney, Michael Rains, said the leak was an attempt to smear his client.
"My view has always been this case has been the U.S. vs. Bonds, and I think the government has moved in certain ways in a concerted effort to indict my client," Rains told the newspaper. "And I think their failure to indict him has resulted in their attempts to smear him publicly."
Calls to Rains' office from The Associated Press went unanswered Thursday night.
Tony Serra, Anderson's lawyer, said Anderson "never knowingly provided illegal substances to anyone."
The Chronicle story is the latest development this week in the more-than-yearlong BALCO probe. On Thursday, the paper reported Yankees slugger Jason Giambi (search) told the grand jury he injected himself with human growth hormone in 2003 and also used steroids for at least three seasons.
Giambi's reported testimony might lead the New York club to terminate his $120 million contract and allow baseball commissioner Bud Selig (search) to discipline him.
Before the Bonds story was even published, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan said his office was concerned about the leaks to the Chronicle and asked the Justice Department to investigate.
Also, ABC News and ESPN the Magazine released excerpts of interviews with Victor Conte, in which the BALCO founder admits to watching Olympic star Marion Jones inject herself in the leg with human growth hormone. Jones' attorneys denied she ever used performance-enhancing drugs. Conte's interview with ABC's "20/20" program airs Friday night.
The head of the International Olympic Committee (search), Jacques Rogge, said he was aware of Conte's allegations.
"I hope the truth will emerge," Rogge said Friday in Dubrovnik, Croatia, where he is attending a meeting of the European Olympic Committees. "We want the truth. We want to know what happened and the more we know the better."
Dozens of elite athletes testified before the grand jury last year, including baseball stars Bonds, Giambi and Gary Sheffield, and track stars Jones, Tim Montgomery and Kelli White.
The probe led to some athletes being banned from the Olympics and left a cloud of suspicion over others, such as Jones, who were allowed to compete despite the investigation.
But Bonds is the biggest star of all, the holder of baseball's single-season home run record of 73 in 2001 and the man who could break Hank Aaron's career homer mark of 755 as early as next year.
Bonds ended last season with 703 homers and won his record seventh Most Valuable Player award. It is uncertain whether these admissions will taint his legacy.
It is uncertain what punishment, if any, Bonds could receive from baseball, which didn't have penalties for steroid use until last year.
While discipline is spelled out for positive tests and criminal convictions from 2003 on, admission of illegal steroid use is not addressed, possibly giving Selig an opening to punish Bonds.
Selig repeatedly has called for year-round random testing and harsher penalties, but management and the players' association have failed to reach an agreement. The contract runs through the 2006 season.
"I've been saying for many months: I instituted a very, very tough program in the minor leagues on steroids in 2001. We need to have that program at the major league level," Selig said Thursday in Washington, D.C. "We're going to leave no stone unturned until we have that policy in place by spring training 2005."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140378,00.html
Report: Bonds Admitted Using Substances
Friday, December 03, 2004
•Giambi's Reported Steroid Use May Cost Him •BALCO Head: Marion Jones Took Steroids•Giambi Told Grand Jury He Used Steroids•BALCO Founder: Marion Jones Used Steroids•Testimony Could Cost Giambi Millions•Judge Won't Dismiss BALCO Steroid Charges
SAN FRANCISCO — Baseball player Barry Bonds (search) told a federal grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring but denied knowing they were steroids, according to a report published Friday.
Bonds, the San Francisco Giants slugger, testified last year that Greg Anderson (search), his personal trainer, told him that the substances he used in 2003 were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis, according to a transcript of his testimony reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Click to read the San Francisco Chronicle report.
The substances Bonds described were similar to ones known as "the clear" and "the cream," two steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (search), the lab at the center of the steroid scandal.
Grand jury transcripts are sealed and the newspaper did not say who showed it the documents. Bonds' attorney, Michael Rains, said the leak was an attempt to smear his client.
"My view has always been this case has been the U.S. vs. Bonds, and I think the government has moved in certain ways in a concerted effort to indict my client," Rains told the newspaper. "And I think their failure to indict him has resulted in their attempts to smear him publicly."
Calls to Rains' office from The Associated Press went unanswered Thursday night.
Tony Serra, Anderson's lawyer, said Anderson "never knowingly provided illegal substances to anyone."
The Chronicle story is the latest development this week in the more-than-yearlong BALCO probe. On Thursday, the paper reported Yankees slugger Jason Giambi (search) told the grand jury he injected himself with human growth hormone in 2003 and also used steroids for at least three seasons.
Giambi's reported testimony might lead the New York club to terminate his $120 million contract and allow baseball commissioner Bud Selig (search) to discipline him.
Before the Bonds story was even published, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan said his office was concerned about the leaks to the Chronicle and asked the Justice Department to investigate.
Also, ABC News and ESPN the Magazine released excerpts of interviews with Victor Conte, in which the BALCO founder admits to watching Olympic star Marion Jones inject herself in the leg with human growth hormone. Jones' attorneys denied she ever used performance-enhancing drugs. Conte's interview with ABC's "20/20" program airs Friday night.
The head of the International Olympic Committee (search), Jacques Rogge, said he was aware of Conte's allegations.
"I hope the truth will emerge," Rogge said Friday in Dubrovnik, Croatia, where he is attending a meeting of the European Olympic Committees. "We want the truth. We want to know what happened and the more we know the better."
Dozens of elite athletes testified before the grand jury last year, including baseball stars Bonds, Giambi and Gary Sheffield, and track stars Jones, Tim Montgomery and Kelli White.
The probe led to some athletes being banned from the Olympics and left a cloud of suspicion over others, such as Jones, who were allowed to compete despite the investigation.
But Bonds is the biggest star of all, the holder of baseball's single-season home run record of 73 in 2001 and the man who could break Hank Aaron's career homer mark of 755 as early as next year.
Bonds ended last season with 703 homers and won his record seventh Most Valuable Player award. It is uncertain whether these admissions will taint his legacy.
It is uncertain what punishment, if any, Bonds could receive from baseball, which didn't have penalties for steroid use until last year.
While discipline is spelled out for positive tests and criminal convictions from 2003 on, admission of illegal steroid use is not addressed, possibly giving Selig an opening to punish Bonds.
Selig repeatedly has called for year-round random testing and harsher penalties, but management and the players' association have failed to reach an agreement. The contract runs through the 2006 season.
"I've been saying for many months: I instituted a very, very tough program in the minor leagues on steroids in 2001. We need to have that program at the major league level," Selig said Thursday in Washington, D.C. "We're going to leave no stone unturned until we have that policy in place by spring training 2005."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140378,00.html
. But yeah, you can tell his is on the juice! 
