Federal prosecutors still care deeply about steroids, and lying about their use to Congress as the aborted Roger Clemens trial shows.

The shredded reputation of Clemens remains in limbo after last week’s mistrial in the perjury case against one of baseball’s all-time greats.

“I think there’s certainly some performance-enhancing drug fatigue,” said Charles Yesalis, a professor at Penn State and longtime outspoken critic of PED abuse.

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Reds Minor League catcher Jose Raga was recently placed under suspension after he tested positive for a banned steroid.

A catcher with Cincinnati’s Venezuelan Summer League affiliate tested positive for Stanozolol, a performance-enhancing substance, in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

Raga has received a 50-game suspension, according to the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball.

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In the perjury trial of Barry Bonds, the former baseball player and the home run King, prosecutors finished their closing argument by painting him as a slippery superstar.

Prosecutors remarked that the ex-baseball player lied to hide his use of performance enhancing drugs.

“All he had to do was tell the truth,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nedrow said before a packed courtroom. “He chose not to tell the truth and that’s why he’s here.”

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Testifying at home run king Barry Bonds‘ perjury trial, baseball star Jason Giambi said that he used illegal anabolic steroids that were obtained from the personal trainer of Bonds.

Giambi, who was the American League Most Valuable Player in 2000, described how he initiated the use of steroids after meeting trainer Greg Anderson at an all-star baseball game in Japan.

Giambi said he used the drugs for a few months before abandoning them.

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Defense attorneys said on Thursday in closing arguments at the trial of Barry Bonds that the perjury case against the home run king is built on testimony from his enemies.

Bonds was painted by the prosecutors earlier as a slippery superstar who lied to hide his use of performance enhancing drugs while he closed in on the all-time home run record of baseball.

“This prosecution in its zeal to go after Barry Bonds will forgive anybody anything including perjury and mortgage fraud if that person is willing to say something bad about Barry Bonds,” Bonds attorney Cristina Arguedas said.

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The jurors at the Barry Bonds perjury trial received a science lesson with Larry Bowers — a government witness and an antidoping expert — acting as their professor.

They learned about the different categories of steroids, of which anabolic steroids are one.

The jurors also heard as to how those steroids are administered.

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Barry Bonds, the baseball home run king, used steroids from a lab that was able to attract other athletes because of his involvement.

This revelation was made by a federal prosecutor during the perjury trial of Bonds.

Parrella promised to offer eyewitnesses who saw Anderson injecting Bonds, and evidence of anabolic steroids that were found in the home of Anderson and premises of BALCO.

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Giants’ slugger Barry Bonds will go to trial for perjury and obstruction of justice in conjunction in March 2011 with his alleged use of performance enhancing drugs.

If he is found guilty, the punishment should fit the crime.

About 1 million high school students admit to knowingly using anabolic steroids as per federal surveys.

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The former trainer of Barry Bonds, Greg Anderson, could face jail time again as perjury trial of his childhood friend and former client, Barry Bonds, finally gets underway.

Anderson is expected to appear in Judge Susan Illston’s U.S. District Court for answering questions about whether he will testify about his relationship with Bonds and whether he supplied the home run king with designer steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO).

Anderson will appear on whatever dates he is subpoenaed, but he will almost certainly refuse to answer prosecutors’ questions, according to his attorney.

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A federal prosecutor opened the government’s case 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.”

Matthew Parrella, an assistant United States attorney, told the jury in Bonds’s perjury trial that the government would prove Bonds lied to a federal grand jury in 2003.

Bonds said in 2003 that he never knowingly took steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.

Tags: Barry Bonds, Greg Anderson, Performance enhancing drugs, steroids

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