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The Giants' Rich Aurilia, left, and Barry Bonds congratulated each other after they each scored on a double by Edgardo Alfonzo in the fourthinning during game two of the National League Division Series at Pacific Bell Park on Wednesday, October 1, 2003.
The Associated Press
Barry Bonds walked silently through the San Francisco Giants' bustling clubhouse. Asked about a report that he had received steroids and human growth hormone from a nutritional supplements lab implicated in a drug-distribution ring, Bonds softly replied: "Get out of my locker."
Bonds,others handed steroids
mylocker Similar scenes were repeated yesterday at other major league teams' sites. From Florida to Arizona, the focus at spring training was on steroids again.
Citing information it said was given to federal investigators, the San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday that Bonds was given the substances by his personal trainer who got them from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
Trainer Greg Anderson gave the players the drugs from BALCO, according to information given to the government and shared with the newspaper. The report did not say how federal investigators received the information.
According to the newspaper, investigators also were told that steroids were given to New York Yankees stars Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, three other major leaguers and one NFL player.
received the information Bonds, Giambi and Sheffield have repeatedly denied using
steroids, and last week Bonds said baseball could "test me every day if they choose to."
day if they choose to test all testified last year before the grand jury that indicted Anderson and three others in the alleged steroid-distribution ring.
THG, one of the steroids in the investigation, was not made illegal until recent months, and while the possession and sale of human growth hormone without a prescription is a crime, its personal use is not.
some uses. "We are very distressed about any situation that calls into play the integrity of our players," said Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer.
At the Yankees' spring training camp, Giambi and Sheffield wouldn't directly address the report.
report.
"Speculation doesn't bother me. It's as simple as that," Sheffield said. "I deal with it. You know I don't like dealing with issues. You know I don't like dealing with controversy. Nobody likes to do that."
The Chronicle reported that two of Bonds' former teammates Marvin Benard of the White Sox and Benito Santiago of the Royals and former Oakland Athletics infielder Randy Velarde also received performance-enhancing drugs as did linebacker Bill Romanowski, who was released by the Raiders.
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