SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds will remain free while he appeals his conviction for giving misleading testimony before a grand jury. SEE ALSO: Man Steals His Date’s Car A federal judge handed Bonds a sentence of 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service on Friday – then […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The largest federal criminal investigation into sports doping began more than nine years ago with a tax agent digging through the trash of the now notorious Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. Barring an appeal, the government’s work comes to an anti-climactic end Friday when Barry Bonds – the probe’s highest-profile catch – […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Bonds’ lawyers asked a federal judge Tuesday to follow a federal probation officer’s recommendation and give Major League Baseball’s career home run leader probation when he’s sentenced for obstruction of justice this month. SEE ALSO: All Eight Sandusky Accusers To Testify Bonds, 47, was convicted in April of obstructing a grand […]
In a Black Planet/NewsOne poll conducted after the guilty verdict was handed down in the Barry Bonds trial, 84 percent of respondents unanimously believe that the former Giants star knowingly took steroids during his career. Sixteen percent of respondents polled believe Barry never took performance enhancing drugs. The poll, which had 325 respondents, was surprising […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds was found guilty of obstruction of justice but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury in 2003 when he specifically denied that he knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone. Following a 12-day trial and almost […]
A writer for the New York Times, William C. Rhoden, has an article in which he compares baseball player, Barry Bonds to boxer, Jack Johnson for the animosity both received by the white American public. RELATED: Beyonce hires 200 African dancers for new video In 1913, the government hid behind the Mann Act to prosecute […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Kimberly Bell, her voice cracking, looked out at the court room and talked about the final stretch of her nine-year relationship with Barry Bonds. The greatest hitter of his era threatened “to cut my head off and leave me in a ditch,” she said. “More than once.” She said Bonds told her […]
Earlier today, Barry Bonds’ former personal trainer Greg Anderson was found in contempt of court for refusing to testify in Bonds perjury trial. For almost seven years, Anderson has refused to speak about his time training the Giants Hall of Famer. What’s even more shocking is the amount of jail time he’s put himself through […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Major League Baseball’s home-run king Barry Bonds begins his perjury trial today, eight years after testifying to a grand jury that he never knowingly took steroids or human growth hormone. NBC reports: The actual trial may not start for a week, but Monday the lawyers in the case will begin jury selection. […]
San Francisco — Federal prosecutors have cut the number of felony charges Barry Bonds faces from 11 to five. In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors filed their third revised indictment against Bonds, who is scheduled to stand trial March 21. In the new indictment, they reduced from nine to three the number of charges alleging […]
