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.

From Reuters.com:

“I was picking Greg’s brain as to what kind of training Barry was doing, was he lifting weights, what was he doing in the gym,” Giambi said. “Barry was a great athlete. I just wanted to continue my career so I wanted to get information from him.”

He said that Anderson subsequently sent him packages containing steroids he called “the clear and the cream,” explaining that the cream was testosterone, and the clear was epitestosterone. The package included a syringe with injectable steroids, which Giambi said he used.

Giambi said Anderson told him Major League Baseball tests were designed to detect the ratio of these two hormones and by raising the levels of both, he could increase their testosterone level without testing positive for illegal steroids.

Bonds has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to a grand jury about whether he knowingly used the same substances. His case is the latest in a years-long U.S. investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports.

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.

From Reuters.com:

Bonds faces up to a decade in prison on each charge in the case, one of the last strands of a national probe into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports.

He is expected to receive a much lighter sentence if convicted, but the jury which now begins deliberations also will be passing judgment on his professional reputation.

Defense attorneys said tainted witnesses ranged from Bonds’ former girlfriend, who discussed changes in the baseball star’s anatomy, to a childhood friend turned business associate who taped conversations about Bonds, attorneys said.

“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.

From NYTimes.com:

While the jurors may not have known it, that information, however intimate it became, is key to the case. It laid the foundation for future testimony regarding the physical changes some witnesses have said they noticed in Bonds as a result of his steroid use.

Bonds is charged with four counts of lying to a grand jury in 2003 when he said he never knowingly used steroids, and one count of obstruction of justice.

Jeffrey Nedrow, an assistant United States attorney, asked Bowers, the chief science director of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, how steroid use could affect a man’s testicles.

“It’s been well documented that you could have testicular atrophy,” Bowers said, before putting it simply. “They will shrink.”

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.

From Slam.canoe.ca:

Bonds, 46, who has pleaded not guilty to lying about use of performance-enhancing drugs, dressed in a dark suit with a light blue shirt and matching tie and conferred amicably with his team of five attorneys before the trial got under way.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew A. Parrella began by detailing a U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), whose head pleaded guilty to providing illegal performance enhancing drugs to professional athletes.

The Bonds case is one of the last strands in a lengthy investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Doping revelations tarnished the reputation of baseball, known as America’s national pastime.

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.

From Articles.sfgate.com:

Over the last few years, federal law enforcement has taken steps to crack down on the illegal use of and trafficking in performance enhancing drugs. As a result, a number of high profile athletes, including baseball’s Roger Clemens and cycling’s Lance Armstrong, are now ensnared in ongoing investigations. As these cases come to closure, there is an important opportunity to help educate our nation’s young people that using these drugs is illegal, cheating and sometimes even deadly.

Courts and prosecutors have the ability to fashion penalties to aid the victims of offenses and prevent future harms. For example, the penalties imposed in the tobacco settlements have funded anti-smoking campaigns. In the case of steroids and other performance-enhancing drug use, the real victims are our children. A 2008 study of students in 12 states determined that about 50 percent of students in grades 8 through 12 who admitted to using these drugs said that the behaviors of professional athletes influenced his or her decision to use. The impact is serious.

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).

From NYdailynews.com:

“Greg has been advised of various options,” Paula Canny, one of Anderson’s lawyers, told the Daily News this past week. “I’m not going to say what Greg and I have talked about, but given his past conduct, it’s pretty easy to predict – based on past behavior – what his future conduct is going to be.”

If indeed Anderson is marched off to prison, it will be the fourth time he has been put behind bars in the past six years – he was jailed once for steroid distribution and twice for his refusal to testify against Bonds. Anderson’s determination has substantially damaged the government’s case against Bonds, and has been a great personal cost as well as Anderson’s young son grew while he was in jail. And Anderson’s personal training career has gone off the rails.

“None of us are the same,” says Canny, who is close to Anderson. “If you would have said in 2003 or 2002, nine years later we’d still be dealing with this, I don’t think anybody would have ever thought that.”

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.

From NYtimes.com:

“The defendant had immunity,” Parrella said, growing increasingly animated during his 50-minute opening statement. “All he had to do was tell the truth. That’s all he had to do, was tell the truth. But he couldn’t do it. And the evidence will show that he planned not to do it.”

Bonds, charged with four counts of lying to a grand jury in 2003 and one count of obstruction of justice in connection with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative investigation, testified to the grand jury that he assumed he was receiving flaxseed oil and arthritis cream from his former trainer Greg Anderson. He never knew that Anderson was actually giving him steroids, the defense contends.

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

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For Darren Campbell, Britain’s highest-ranked sprinter at one time, a court appearance in San Francisco of Dwain Chambers‘ coach Remi Korchemny on charges of distributing performance enhancing drugs added further to his suspicion that his rival had not acted alone.

“Whether he knew [he was taking drugs] or not, I never believed Dwain was solely accountable. I like Dwain, but I’m upset with the whole thing . . . it’s just dirty,” the silver medalist in the 200 meters in Sydney.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Korchemny’s alleged involvement, with three other men, in what amounts to a conspiracy to provide banned substances and to deliberately circumnavigate the drug-testing programme is a severe setback in Chambers’ efforts to avoid a two-year banas a result of his positive test for the designer anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG).

There is no doubt, though, that the announcement on Thursday by John Ashcroft, the Attorney General of the United States, that criminal charges had been brought against Korchemny, Greg Anderson, a personal trainer of the baseball star Barry Bonds, and two executives of the California-based Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (Balco) – the founder and owner Victor Conte and vice-president Jim Valente – was a watershed in the fight against doping. All have pleaded not guilty.

“Who’d have thought six months ago that you would see the Attorney General of the United States waving a 42-count indictment?” said Dick Pound, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Ex-President George Bush said, “The use of performance- enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football and other sports is dangerous, and it sends the wrong message: that there are shortcuts to accomplishment and that performance is more important than character.”

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Police officers and corrections officers, who received anabolic steroids from Jersey City physician Joseph Colao, have been named in at least five lawsuits alleging brutality or violations of civil rights.

Other officers, accused of obtaining steroids from the doctor, were fired, suspended or arrested for allegedly engaging in bad conduct on or off the job.

From NJ.com:

In August 2007, Jersey City resident Mathias Bolton called police to report a possible break-in at his apartment building. Bolton, 37, claims the first officer on the scene, Victor Vargas, mistook him for a burglar and, in a rage fueled by steroids, repeatedly punched him, threw him against the wall, dragged him from the building’s vestibule and pushed him down a flight of stairs to the sidewalk.

Other officers, among them Michael Stise, continued to beat Bolton as he lay on the ground, the suit states. The officers charged Bolton with resisting arrest and aggravated assault on a police officer. The counts were later dropped.

Court documents filed in the case show Vargas, 33, and Stise, 30, were taking anabolic steroids and human growth hormone prescribed by Colao. The officers deny in legal papers doing anything wrong, saying they identified themselves and repeatedly ordered Bolton to stop resisting.

The lawyers of Vargas and Stise wrote, “Given the broad hostility to athletes who abuse steroids — Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Manny (Ramirez) are widely hated — a jury that hears steroid evidence could readily misfire.”

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The founder of BALCO, Victor Conte, who has been convicted in a steroid distribution scheme, is reported to have said that baseball star Barry Bonds knew he was taking designer steroids.

An ESPN website report, citing an unnamed source close to Conte speaking to ESPN magazine, said Bonds took a major interest in the composition of the substances he used to bulk his frame.

From Foxsports.com.au:

The source said Conte told him Bonds sought BALCO’s services to “get jacked” and knew exactly what he was taking.

Bonds has denied knowingly taking steroids even though his trainer, Greg Anderson, joined Conte and two other men in being convicted in the BALCO steroid probe.

Conte has said he had no dealings with BALCO baseball clients and denied the source’s story to ESPN on Friday.

Bonds testified to a grand jury in 2004 that he did not think items he received from Anderson were steroids, even though prosecutors believe they were, according to testimony uncovered by the San Francisco Chronicle.

The report said Patrick Arnold, who pleaded guilty in April to distributing steroids, made a similar admission.

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