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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2009
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Former San Francisco Giants baseball player Barry Bonds arrives at the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Calif., in June 2008. The government's case against Bonds includes several positive drug test results that prosecutors say belong to the former slugger. That evidence was part of hundreds of pages of court filings by prosecutors and Bonds' attorneys that a federal judge opened today.
Bonds faces more scrutiny
Transcript of steroid conversation could become evidence in trial
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SAN FRANCISCO Prosecutors in Barry Bonds' trial intend to introduce notes seized from Greg Anderson's house and a clubhouse tape recording of the personal trainer discussing injections in an effort to get around his likely refusal to testify against the home-run king.
Among hundreds of pages of documents opened Wednesday was a transcript of a taped conversation between Anderson, Bonds' personal trainer and then personal assistant, Steve Hoskins, discussing injecting the slugger, plus a list of current and former major leaguers, including lason Giambi, who are
scheduled to testify for the government at Bonds' upcoming trial.
Among the evidence was a positive test for amphetamines in 2006 in a urine sample Bonds gave to Major League Baseball.
"See, the stuff that I have...we created it...You can get it anywhere else."
Bonds' attorneys
want all that evidence suppressed, and U.S. District Judge Susan Illston is to rule today. Anderson, jailed several times for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury, appears to be at the heart of the government's case.
Hoskins, Bonds' childhood friend and personal assistant, tape recorded a 2003 conversation at the Pac Bell clubhouse with Anderson in which injections are discussed.
Anderson: "No, what happens is, they put too much in one area, and what it does, it'll, it'll actually ball up and puddle. And what happens is, it actually will eat away and make an indentation. And it's a cyst. It makes a big (expletive) cyst. And you have to drain it. Oh yeah, it gnarly ... Hi Benito ... oh it's gnarly."
GREG ANDERSON Bonds' personal trainer
Hoskins: "He said his (expletive) went ... that's why he has to, he had to switch off of one cheek to the other. Is that why Barry's didn't do it in one spot, and you didn't just let him do it one time?"
Anderson: "Oh no. I never. I never just go there. I move it all over the place."
The former San Francisco Giants star is charged with lying to a grand jury in 2003 when he said he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Federal prosecutors allege that Bonds knowingly used steroids, including a once undetectable designer drug.
Bonds' lawyers moved to suppress 24 drug tests from 2000-06; more than two dozen drug calendars; BALCO log sheets; handwritten notes; opinion evidence on steroids, human growth hormone, THG, EPO and Clomid; witness descriptions of Bonds" physical, behavioral and emotional characteristics" — including acne on
His trial is scheduled to start March 2.
his back, testicle shrinkage, head size, hat size, hand size, foot size and sexual behavior — recorded conversations that didn't include Bonds; and voice mails allegedly left by Bonds on the answering machine of former girlfriend Kimberly Bell.
According to records prosecutors took from BALCO, Bonds tested positive on three separate occasions in 2000 and 2001 for the steroid methenelone in urine samples; he also tested positive two of those three times for the steroid dandrolone. Prosecutors want to use those test results to show Bonds lied when he told a grand jury in December 2003 that he never knowingly used steroids.
In addition, a government-retained scientist, Dr. Don Catlin, said he found evidence that Bonds used the designer steroid THG upon retesting a urine sample Bonds supplied as part of baseball's anonymous survey drug testing
in 2003, when the designer drug was not yet detectable. Federal investigators seized them in 2004 from the private laboratory used by Major League Baseball before they could be destroyed, which the players were promised.
Catlin said the sample also tested positive for Clomid and foreign testosterone.
Included in the evidence was a letter from baseball independent drug administrator Bryan Smith that Bonds tested positive for an amphetamine during a drug test on July 7, 2006. There also was a letter from baseball commissioner Bud Selig to Bonds that Aug. 1 informing him of the positive test and telling him that he will be subject to six more tests over a one-year period.
The government said the Giants had Bonds give blood samples to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center and to Chandler Regional lab, and the government obtained those test results. The government said liver enzymes and cholesterol levels in those results were indicative of steroid use.
Anderson also worked with those players and maintained so-called doping calendars for them. Prosecutors allege that Anderson maintained a similar 'calendar for Bonds.
The court documents also showed the prosecutors' plan on calling to the witness stand Jason Giambi and his brother and former major leaguer Jeremy Giambi. The government also plans to call Bobby Estalella, Marvin Barnard and Benito Santiago, all former teammates of Bonds'.
Documents taken from Anderson's house detail steroid distribution from Anderson to Bonds from 2000-03, according to a government brief. And Anderson also discusses steroids with Hoskins
during that March 2003 clubhouse chat.
Court papers stated that Hoskins recorded the conversation on his own initiative with no government prompting. And federal prosecutors said that Hoskins will be a key witness at the trial.
According to Hoskins, the following excerpt took place between himself and Anderson in approximately March of 2003 at Pac Bell Park near the defendant's locker.
Hoskins: "Right."
Anderson: "... everything that I've been doing at this point, it's all undetectable.
Anderson: "See, the stuff that I have .. we created it. And you can't, you can't buy it anywhere. You can't get it anywhere else. But, you can take it the day of and pee ."
Hoskins: "Isn't that the same (expletive) that Marion Jones and them were using?"
Anderson: "Yeah same stuff, the same stuff that worked at the Olympics."
Anderson: "And it come up with nothing."
Hoskins: "Uh-huh."
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Anderson: "So that's why I know it works. So that's why I'm not even trippin', so that's cool."
Hoskins: "Right, right."
Hoskins: "Every week. Right, right."
Anderson: "And they test them every (expletive) week"
Bonds' attorneys argue "there is simply no portion of what Anderson states in reply to Hoskins' questioning that unambiguously refers to Mr. Bonds."
NFL
Chiefs' Johnson wants out
Star running back upset with team
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs running back Larry Johnson, fresh off a problem-plagued season, said he wants to leave Kansas City.
Speaking Wednesday morning on 610 Sports Radio, Johnson said he thinks it's time for him and the Chiefs to "break ties."
Chiefs spokesman Bob Moore said there was nothing that came out of the interview that hadn't been talked about before. Johnson, who has spent his six-year career in Kansas City, said in December that he felt he had no future with the Chiefs.
Kansas City Chiefs' Larry Johnson stands on the sideline during a Chiefs game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Oct. 7, 2007 in Kansas City, Mo. Johnson recently said he wanted to leave the team.
"They can go on and find what they want. And I can try to go on and rebuild my career and find what I want." Johnson said.
"Larry Johnson is a member of the Kansas City Chiefs under contract with the Kansas City Chiefs," Moore said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday night. "Nothing said about this matter has changed that fact in any way."
During the past season, Johnson was benched for three games for violating team rules and suspended by the league for a fourth game for violating NFL player conduct rules. He also faces a March trial date on charges that he pushed one woman at a bar and spit drinks at another woman.
any younger and the team is getting a lot younger, so I'm not sure I fit in the scheme of things."
Johnson also expressed concern about his role as the Chiefs are overhauled after going 2-23 in their last 25 games.
"I'd rather just, you know, play somewhere else, because like I said, you know this is a rebuilding team, you know, and I don't really think I belong in this rebuilding team," Johnson said.
"This is the way the league works, you know. I've done what I've done for Kansas City, and I'm not getting
Johnson said Wednesday he was told he would get most the carries when he signed a long-term, $45 million deal with the Chiefs before the 2007 season. But he said he was unhappy with his diminished role in the shotgun offense.
Johnson is from State College, Pa., and said football there at Penn State. He said he would prefer to play somewhere on the East Coast so he could be closer to his family.
But hed also like to play for Dallas, he said, noting that his mother is a Cowboys fan.
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