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March 02, 2004
Balco Breaks Bigger
The Balco steriods story has just broken bigger, with the San Francisco Chronicle reporting that Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield, Marvin Bernard, Benito Santiago and Bill Romanowski all apparently having received steroids through Bonds' longtime friend and personal trainer, Greg Anderson. Anderson allegedly obtained a so-called designer steroid known as "the clear" and a testosterone-based steroid known as "the cream" from BALCO and supplied the substances to all six baseball players, the government was told. In addition, Bonds was said to have received human growth hormone, a powerful substance that legally cannot be distributed without a prescription, investigators were told. But what's different this time, is the tenor of the denials coming from a number of the athletes involved with the accusations: Sheffield's attorney Paula Canny said, "Gary Sheffield has never knowingly ingested a steroid ... and Gary Sheffield has never knowingly applied an anabolic steroid cream to his body." That's a significant change, and one that I've written about before. Stay tuned. UPDATE: Jason Scavone sees some humor in all this, and he's right. Dave Pinto wants more proof. ANOTHER UPDATE: Drudge is fronting the Chronicle piece. ESPN.com's Daily Quickie points out the non-denial, denial line that Shefflield and Santiago are are hewing to. Hold on tight.
Eric
06:58 AM
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