The former baseball slugger, Barry Bonds, has been sentenced by a U.S. district judge to two years probation, with no prison time.
District Judge Susan Illston handed down the sentence to Bonds in a San Francisco federal for his conviction on a single criminal count related to an investigation over steroids use in sports.
From Guardian.co.uk:
Bonds was [...]
The perjury case against the home run king is built on testimony from his enemies, according to Defense attorneys in closing arguments at the trial of Barry Bonds.
The baseball star was painted by the prosecutors earlier as a slippery superstar who lied to hide his use of performance enhancing drugs while he closed [...]
The government’s case was opened by a federal prosecutor against Barry Bonds by calling assertion of Bonds that he did not know he was taking performance enhancing drugs “an utterly ridiculous and unbelievable story.”
An assistant United States attorney, Matthew Parrella, told the jury in Bonds’s perjury trial that the government would prove [...]
The about-to-come 600th home run by Alex Rodriguez, popularly known as A-Rod, will not be devalued by his admission about use of steroids in the past according to some baseball fans and sluggers.
Rodriguez’s image is not tarnished like a Barry Bonds, as per Arlan Ettinger, President of Guernsey’s auction house.
Brandon Steiner, head of Steiner Sports [...]
The New York Times has identified Sammy Sosa, the baseball slugger, as the latest sport celebrity to be found tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003.
This revelation has once again saddened admirers of baseball and doping officials hoping for a quick end to the continuing relationship between steroids and sports.
From Sportsillustrated.CNN.com:
Sosa’s entry into the [...]
Administration of drug tests in international sports should consider ethnicity as one of the factors that could alter the results of the tests. This is according to Swiss researchers who discovered that there is a difference between the levels of testosterone and epitosterone ratio (T:E) in Caucasians and Asians.
In a study published by the British [...]
In the government’s efforts to stop illegal steroid use and distribution, there have been many big names tainted probably permanently. This is what Bruce Jenkins expressed in his article which was mainly about Barry Bonds and the effect that the whole anabolic steroids scandal had on him. Whatever the outcome of the trial may be, [...]