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NEWS ABOUT: Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds stories: 73 news summaries

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(Newser) - Barry Bonds has one less legal problem to worry about, TMZ reports: Once-estranged wife Liz Watson has filed to dismiss the legal separation papers she filed last month. The pair has been married since 1988, with one daughter. Watson filed the documents June 5, citing irreconcilable differences. More »

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Barry Bonds • baseball • celebrity divorces • separation • Liz Watson

Pujols: Test Me Every Day, and I'll Pay Team Back if Caught

All-Star rips 'guilt by association' with A-Rod

Jul 13, 09 7:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - All-Star Albert Pujols is miffed over suggestions his latest enormously productive season comes thanks to drugs, USA Today reports, and says he’ll submit to testing every day—and pay the St. Louis Cardinals back if one comes back positive. “I can understand people being disappointed with A-Rod and... More »

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St. Louis Cardinals • steroids • Barry Bonds • Albert Pujols • Alex Rodriguez • St. Louis • performance-enhancing drugs • Luis Gonzalez • MLB All-Star Game • Busch Stadium

 Wife to Bonds: You're Out 

Wife seeks spousal support, joint custody in papers filed in LA

Jun 9, 09 8:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Disgraced slugger Barry Bonds is facing the possible end of his marriage, the New York Post reports. Elizabeth, his wife of 11½ years, filed for separation Friday, citing irreconcilable differences. Bonds, who hasn’t played baseball since 2007, recently wrote on his website that he is enjoying “having a... More »

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Barry Bonds • joint custody • baseball • celebrity divorces • separation • Elizabeth Watson Bonds

(Newser) - The perjury trial of baseball’s home-run king won’t begin Monday as scheduled, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, with federal prosecutors today delaying—perhaps by months—the start so they can appeal a ruling that excluded what they view as key evidence against Barry Bonds. Reports of positive steroids... More »

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steroids • Barry Bonds • perjury • obstruction of justice • Greg Anderson • Susan Illston

Interview

 Aaron: Let Bonds Keep Record 


Feb 14, 09 12:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Maybe you think Bud Selig ought to void Barry Bonds’ chemically-bolstered home run record, but Hank Aaron does not. “I just don’t see how you really can do a thing like that,” the former, and just maybe future, home-run king told Terence Moore of the Atlanta ... More »

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Barry Bonds • Hank Aaron • baseball • home run record • interview

Witness Says She Saw Bonds Being Injected

Family friend, ex-Giant catcher to testify at slugger's perjury trial

Feb 14, 09 4:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Prosecutors say they have a witness who saw Barry Bonds being injected by his trainer, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Kathy Hoskins, a personal assistant and friend of Bonds' since childhood, is expected to be a key witness at the slugger's perjury trial along with former Giants teammate Bobby Estalella,... More »

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steroids • MLB • San Francisco Giants • Barry Bonds • perjury • BALCO • Greg Anderson • steroid use

OPINION

 Expose the Users 
 to Clear the Clean 

'Real victims' of performance drugs are those left behind

Feb 10, 09 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - The steroids-in-baseball "shame game" shouldn’t be limited to A-Rod and Barry Bonds, writes Mike Wise in the Washington Post. To keep mum on the others who cheated the game is to ignore the "real victims": The regular players who "chose correctly between right and wrong" ... More »

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steroids • MLB • Barry Bonds • Alex Rodriguez • drug test • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs • minor league baseball

(Newser) - Federal prosecutors say they've got the goods on Barry Bonds, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Laying out evidence before his perjury and obstruction trial next month, prosecutors say they can prove the slugger used a designer steroid known as "the clear" in 2003 along with a female fertility drug... More »

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OPINION

McGwire Hall Snub Bodes
Ill for Bonds, Clemens

Could Bonds, Clemens face exclusion?

Jan 13, 09 4:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Mark McGwire's awful showing in Hall of Fame voting—he got only 21.9% of votes this year, which is actually worse than last year and way below the required 75%—is a good sign that that fellow steroid pals Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds face long odds when they... More »

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Barry Bonds • Roger Clemens • Cooperstown • Hall of Fame • Baseball Hall of Fame • Mark McGwire • baseball

(AP) - Federal prosecutors say they will prove personal trainer Greg Anderson supplied Barry Bonds with the steroids that led to a positive test in November 2000, the offseason before the slugger hit a record 73 home runs. In a court filing today, prosecutors say they have two documents showing that Bonds... More »

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Barry Bonds • anabolic steroids • baseball

In Pursuit of Bonds, Feds Put Screws on Trainer's Family

Anderson long mum in baseball steroids case

Aug 29, 08 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Federal authorities are still trying to get Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds’ former personal trainer, to testify about the baseball star’s steroid use, the New York Times reports, and may prosecute his wife and mother-in-law on tax charges to coerce him. “I have never heard anything like this,”... More »

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steroids • Barry Bonds • anabolic steroids • tax evasion • BALCO • Greg Anderson • baseball • federal prosecution

Yankees Float Possibility
of Bonds in Pinstripes

Team officials discussed him at recent meeting

Jul 24, 08 9:28 PM CDT
(AP) - Barry Bonds in pinstripes? Hank Steinbrenner confirmed today that team officials are at least talking about acquiring baseball's home-run king, though he wouldn't say just how serious those talks are. Given how late it is in the season, the prospects are unlikely, the AP reports. The slugger, who turned 44... More »

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MLB • Barry Bonds • New York Yankees • Hank Steinbrenner • baseball

GLOSSIES

 Baseball's All-Miscreant Team 

A-Rod makes Radar's list, of course; Bonds, Giambi, Lo Duca join him

Jul 15, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - With baseball's All-Stars set to take the field at Yankee Stadium, Radar uses the occasion (and the fact that one is the tabloids' current fixation) to name its All-Morally Inept Team:
  • C: Paul Lo Duca, then with the Mets, got the full New York treatment in 2006, when his
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Barry Bonds • Brett Myers • Alex Rodriguez • Jason Giambi • Yankee Stadium • Miguel Tejada • Jeff Kent • Milton Bradley • Paul LoDuca • Shawn Chacon • Elijah Dukes • MLB All-Star Game

MLB's Next Crackdown May Be Maple Bats

Harder wood splits easily, sending shrapnel into stands

Jun 3, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barry Bonds may soon be the face of another Major League Baseball investigation: into the dangers of maple bats. The slugger's choice of wood has a growing following among players, but incidents of flying shards injuring fans and coaches have sparked a movement to ban the bats, USA Today reports.... More »

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MLB • Barry Bonds • injury • baseball • baseball bat • Chad Gaudin • maple bats

BALCO Jury Convicts Track's Graham of Lying

Coach of Marion Jones found to deceive feds on ties to steroid dealer

May 29, 08 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - A San Francisco jury convicted track coach Trevor Graham today of lying to federal investigators when he told them he had ended his contacts with a steroids dealer, the Chronicle reports. Jurors deadlocked on two other counts against the former coach of Olympians Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery; he faces... More »

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steroids • Barry Bonds • track and field • Marion Jones • BALCO • Trevor Graham • Tim Montgomery • drugs in sports

OPINION

How TV, Money Robbed Sports Fans—and Journos

Playing field used to be level enough for writers to give true portraits

May 23, 08 6:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The days when journalists could get to know professional athletes well enough to write the kinds of profiles that would give fans true insight are long gone, Pat Jordan laments on Slate, with television and the accompanying big money the main culprits. Where Jordan once spent days with Catfish Hunter,... More »

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television • Barry Bonds • Josh Beckett • Alex Rodriguez • celebrity • sports journalism • Pat Jordan • Catfish Hunter

Bonds Hit
With New Indictment

Revised charges are essentially the same: He lied about steroids

May 13, 08 9:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The feds filed a new indictment against Barry Bonds today, charging him with 14 counts of perjury for allegedly lying when he told a grand jury that he never used performance-enhancing drugs and one count of obstructing the government's investigation, ESPN reports. The charges are essentially the same ones lodged... More »

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steroids • San Francisco • San Francisco Giants • Barry Bonds • perjury • obstruction of justice • BALCO • federal indictment

 Bonds Ball Fetches $376K 

Colorado fan who caught No. 762 will pocket the amount

Apr 12, 08 10:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The last baseball Barry Bonds hit out of the park sold for $376,612 today, the winning bid coming from an anonymous buyer. There were a total of 13 bids on the baseball, caught by Jameson Sutton Sept. 5 at Coors Field in Colorado. Home run ball No. 762 is... More »

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MLB • San Francisco Giants • Barry Bonds • Coors Field • Jameson Sutton • David Kohler

Giants Fall in Post-Bonds Home Opener

Veteran Maddux gets win for Padres, as Gonzalez homers

Apr 7, 08 11:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Greg Maddux earned his 348th career win, Adrian Gonzalez went 4-for-5 with a homer and four runs, and the San Diego Padres spoiled the San Francisco Giants' first home opener since cutting ties with Barry Bonds by winning 8-4 Monday. The Giants celebrated the 50th anniversary of their move from... More »

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 Who Will Sign Bonds, When? 

ESPN writer Jayson Stark explores the slugger's '08 prospects

Apr 4, 08 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Opening Day has come and gone and Barry Bonds remains without a baseball home. But the home-run king isn't likely to stay on the sidelines for an entire season. Three MLB executives speculate—albeit anonymously—to Jayson Stark of ESPN about why he hasn't been signed. First, to get Bonds... More »

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steroids • MLB • Barry Bonds • perjury • baseball • Mitchell Report

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