Report: Bonds failed amphetamine test
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NEW YORK (AP) - Barry Bonds failed a test for amphetamines last season and originally blamed it on a teammate, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
When first informed of the positive test, Bonds attributed it to a substance he had taken from teammate Mark Sweeney's locker, the New York City newspaper said, citing several unnamed sources.
"I have no comment on that," Bonds' agent Jeff Borris told the Daily News on Wednesday night.
"Mark was made aware of the fact that his name had been brought up," Sweeney's agent Barry Axelrod told the Daily News. "But he did not give Barry Bonds anything, and there was nothing he could have given Barry Bonds."
Bonds, who always has maintained he never has tested positive for illegal drug use, already is under investigation for lying about steroid use.
A federal grand jury is investigating whether the 42-year-old Bonds perjured himself when he testified in 2003 in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid distribution case that he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. The San Francisco Giants slugger told a 2003 federal grand jury that he believed his trainer Greg Anderson had provided him flaxseed oil and arthritic balm, not steroids.
Under baseball's amphetamines policy, which went into effect last season, players are not publicly identified for a first positive test. A second positive test for amphetamines results in a 25-game suspension. The first failed steroids test costs a player 50 games.
The Giants still are working to finalize complicated language in the slugger's US$16 million, one-year contract for next season - a process that has lasted almost a month since he agreed to the deal Dec. 7 on the last day of baseball's winter meetings.
The language still being negotiated concerns the left fielder's compliance with team rules, as well as what would happen if he were to be indicted or have other legal troubles.
Borris has declined to comment on the negotiations. He didn't immediately return a message from the AP on Wednesday night.
The 42-year-old Bonds is set to begin his 15th season with the Giants only 22 home runs shy of surpassing Hank Aaron's career record of 755.
Bonds, considered healthy again following off-season surgery on his troublesome left elbow, has spent 14 of his 21 big league seasons with San Francisco and helped the Giants draw three million fans in all seven seasons at their waterfront ballpark.
After missing all but 14 games in 2005 following three operations on his right knee, Bonds batted .270 with 26 homers and 77 RBIs in 367 at-bats in 2006. He passed Babe Ruth to move into second place on the career home run list May 28.
When first informed of the positive test, Bonds attributed it to a substance he had taken from teammate Mark Sweeney's locker, the New York City newspaper said, citing several unnamed sources.
"I have no comment on that," Bonds' agent Jeff Borris told the Daily News on Wednesday night.
"Mark was made aware of the fact that his name had been brought up," Sweeney's agent Barry Axelrod told the Daily News. "But he did not give Barry Bonds anything, and there was nothing he could have given Barry Bonds."
Bonds, who always has maintained he never has tested positive for illegal drug use, already is under investigation for lying about steroid use.
A federal grand jury is investigating whether the 42-year-old Bonds perjured himself when he testified in 2003 in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid distribution case that he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. The San Francisco Giants slugger told a 2003 federal grand jury that he believed his trainer Greg Anderson had provided him flaxseed oil and arthritic balm, not steroids.
Under baseball's amphetamines policy, which went into effect last season, players are not publicly identified for a first positive test. A second positive test for amphetamines results in a 25-game suspension. The first failed steroids test costs a player 50 games.
The Giants still are working to finalize complicated language in the slugger's US$16 million, one-year contract for next season - a process that has lasted almost a month since he agreed to the deal Dec. 7 on the last day of baseball's winter meetings.
The language still being negotiated concerns the left fielder's compliance with team rules, as well as what would happen if he were to be indicted or have other legal troubles.
Borris has declined to comment on the negotiations. He didn't immediately return a message from the AP on Wednesday night.
The 42-year-old Bonds is set to begin his 15th season with the Giants only 22 home runs shy of surpassing Hank Aaron's career record of 755.
Bonds, considered healthy again following off-season surgery on his troublesome left elbow, has spent 14 of his 21 big league seasons with San Francisco and helped the Giants draw three million fans in all seven seasons at their waterfront ballpark.
After missing all but 14 games in 2005 following three operations on his right knee, Bonds batted .270 with 26 homers and 77 RBIs in 367 at-bats in 2006. He passed Babe Ruth to move into second place on the career home run list May 28.
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A sad story of the honest, hard working, little guy getting brought down.
Barry will still be one of the best evar.
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that is freaking hilarious
<< <i>Hey, I think that kid goes to Oprah's new school! >>
He's a cantidate since she "Has no concern for the white people of that nation"
Didn't another Bonds Thread get pulled last year because that card was posted?
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Remember these Chuck Norris Facts
1. When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the Earth down
2. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, Chuck Norris can actually roundhouse kick you yesterday
3. There are no such things as lesbians, just women who have not yet met Chuck Norris
I implore all of you, my fellow collectors and reasonable, upstanding human beings...
PLEASE....PLEASE....PLEASE....can we organize an official Barry Bonds baseball card bonfire ??
I will even organize this and set the fire myself.
Send me your Bonds cards, I will add all of mine, including the several 86 topps traded, make a nice stack and set fire to them for the world to see our expression of outrage over this waste of humanity and disgrace to the great game of baseball.
This is NOT a joke. I am dead serious and saying this in a moment of clarity. Anyone who is interested feel free to contact me.
Upon receipt of any and all Bonds cards, photos, or anything else representing this tool they will be torched, with the moment captured on film for all to view.
-- Yogi Berra
stevek think about this for a second........
the governer of california took way more roids then barry mark etc.. so did stallone they are both 60. many others that wrestled are pushing 60 that all were on roids.
mantle died at 63. no roids according to old timers. so this liver failure on roids could be the same as alcohol.
and arnold has a bio book on bodybuilding explaining how he took 8 pills of d ball etc.. in 1 gulp. he started back when he was 16 i believe. been 15 years since i read the book. alzado death had more to do then just roids.
<< <i>Hope Barry has enjoyed all this because one day he's going to go the same route as Lyle Alzado. Barry's liver is probably equivalent to a 100 year old and some of his other internal organs probably about the same.
stevek think about this for a second........
the governer of california took way more roids then barry mark etc.. so did stallone they are both 60. many others that wrestled are pushing 60 that all were on roids.
mantle died at 63. no roids according to old timers. so this liver failure on roids could be the same as alcohol.
and arnold has a bio book on bodybuilding explaining how he took 8 pills of d ball etc.. in 1 gulp. he started back when he was 16 i believe. been 15 years since i read the book. alzado death had more to do then just roids. >>
Pasted from a website:
Alzado, Lyle Martin b. 1949. d. 1992.
Football player. He played for the Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns and the LA Raiders. Lyle, a true defensive standout for the Broncos, was the first Yankton College (South Dakota) player ever drafted by the NFL and was a two-time all conference pick. From those humble beginnings, his combination of quickness and strength, provided Lyle with the pass-rushing skills to start with the Broncos in 1971.
His 4.75 40-yard dash time, coupled with his tremendous strength - Lyle once had 27 wins as an amateur boxer - ranked Lyle as one of pro football's top pass rushers. His status as a premier defensive lineman was also enhanced by his versatility - he played both end and tackle in the front four with All-pro status. Lyle Alzado was 42 when he died of brain cancer. An American football SuperBowl hero with the Los Angeles Raiders in the 1984, Alzado owned a restaurant in West Hollywood and had embarked on a career as a movie actor when he died in 1992 after going public. "I started taking anabolic steroids in 1969 and never stopped," he admitted during his pain-racked final days. "It was addicting, mentally addicting. Now I'm sick, and I'm scared. Ninety per cent of the athletes I know are on the stuff. We're not born to be 300lbs or jump 30ft. But all the time I was taking steroids, I knew they were making me play better. I became very violent on the field and off it. I did things only crazy people do. Once a guy sideswiped my car and I beat the hell out of him. Now look at me. My hair's gone, I wobble when I walk and have to hold on to someone for support, and I have trouble remembering things. My last wish? That no one else ever dies this way."
Riverview Cemetery, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Cause of Death: Brain cancer brought on by excessive steroid use.
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<< <i>Hope Barry has enjoyed all this because one day he's going to go the same route as Lyle Alzado. Barry's liver is probably equivalent to a 100 year old and some of his other internal organs probably about the same.
stevek think about this for a second........
the governer of california took way more roids then barry mark etc.. so did stallone they are both 60. many others that wrestled are pushing 60 that all were on roids.
mantle died at 63. no roids according to old timers. so this liver failure on roids could be the same as alcohol.
and arnold has a bio book on bodybuilding explaining how he took 8 pills of d ball etc.. in 1 gulp. he started back when he was 16 i believe. been 15 years since i read the book. alzado death had more to do then just roids. >>
Also - there's a professional wrestling website somewhere that someone here had once posted a link to...which detailed the deaths of professional wrestlers, and a number of them have died in middle age with their deaths attributed to using steroids.
There's always exceptions out there. George Burns smoked a lot and lived to a ripe old age. No question steroids can and do kill - that is a medical fact.
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This is another statement that makes me wonder how anyone could think canseco was the first to do roids in baseball. been around long before the 80's. players in 60's were trying it im sure.
ps. im posting under this name now.
<< <i>ps. im posting under this name now. >>
kuhlmann? Why?
All of these contracts shouldn't be guaranteed for reasons like this. Make these guys have a stake in the matter.
Makes you wonder what they found when they went in Bond's home...or if he knew they were coming.
<< <i>"I started taking anabolic steroids in 1969 and never stopped,"
This is another statement that makes me wonder how anyone could think canseco was the first to do roids in baseball. been around long before the 80's. players in 60's were trying it im sure.
ps. im posting under this name now. >>
Welcome aboard!
Great to see from your sigline that you are loyal, devoted Philadelphia Eagles Football Team fan!
Yea...why the switch?
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