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Barry Bonds Skirts Jail

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:07:57 CST

Barry Bonds will remain free and unpunished while he appeals his conviction for giving misleading testimony before a grand jury. A federal judge handed Bonds a sentence of 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation, and 250 hours of community service today—then delayed the sentence pending an...

Barry Bonds Convicted of Obstructing Justice

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:00:03 CDT

Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice today, but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using steroids and human growth hormone. Following a 12-day trial and almost four full days...

Bonds' Son: The Bigger Hat Was Mine

Polly Davis Doig — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:39:05 CDT

Nikolai Bonds scrutinizes every nuance of dad Barry Bonds' perjury trial from afar: He winces over the ex-mistress's allegations and watches old friends turn on his dad, but for him, the trial's outcome was settled in 2003. "Did you?" he asked the Giants slugger about rumors of steroid use. The...

Ex-Mistress: Bonds Blamed 'Roids for Injury

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:20:10 CDT

Barry Bonds' ex-mistress took the stand in his perjury trial today, testifying that the ex-slugger blamed steroids for a 1999 elbow injury, and that his head got bigger—literally—and testicles got smaller over the course of their nine-year relationship. Kimberly Bell, who maintained the relationship even after he told...

Barry Bonds' Friend: I Saw Trainer With Syringe

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:10:54 CDT

A key government witness in the Barry Bonds perjury trial testified today that he saw the home run king's personal trainer leave Bonds' spring training bedroom with a syringe in 2000. Steve Hoskins said that when he saw Bonds and his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, coming out of the master...

Barry Bonds' Perjury Trial Begins

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:09:00 CDT

Home-run king Barry Bonds goes on trial today in San Francisco on charges that he lied to a federal grand jury investigating doping in professional sports. The former San Francisco Giants star could get five years or more in federal prison if convicted of the charges, reports the Wall Street...

Worst Sports Excesses of the Decade

John Johnson — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:30:00 CST

American sports culture descended into sheer decadence this decade, and no single incident sums it better than Pacman Jones' "making it rain" with cash in a Vegas strip club in 2007, writes Clay Travis for Fanhouse. The chaos that ensued after he tossed around the money—reportedly about $100,000—...

Bonds Done Playing: Agent

Kevin Spak — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:11:41 CST

Barry Bonds will almost certainly never play again, his agent said today, finally admitting what had seemed a fait accompli. “If there was any chance he'd be back in a major-league uniform, it would have happened by now,” Jeff Borris tells the San Francisco Chronicle . “When 2008 came around, I...

Bonds' Wife Takes Him Back

Kevin Spak — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:20:00 CDT

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.