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Barry Bonds used to be the object of admiration and accolades, but not now. Bonds is now in legal quagmire, facing possible jail time because of his alleged steroid use.  In 2003 when the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative was exposed, Barry Bonds was one of the famous athletes who got dragged down by what many view as the biggest steroid scandal of the sporting world.

During Bonds’ grand jury testimony in December 2003, Bonds said he was given a clear substance and a cream, which according to him he did not know as steroids. According to Bonds, the steroids were given to him by Greg Anderson, his trainer since 2000, stating that Anderson told him they were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis. "The cream" is actually a testosterone-based ointment that is used to mask the use of anabolic steroids, in Bonds’ case it was ‘the clear’, a.k.a. tetrahydrogestrinone or THG. Bonds also denied that Anderson had injected him with steroids.

When Bonds’ 2003 grand jury testimony was unsealed early this year, among the information contained in the 149-page court transcript was evidence of Bonds’ additional positive steroid test other than the one which had been previously reported in November 2000.