AP: Barry Bonds failed drug test report was a typo
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Just as the chorus of ‘I told you so’s’ resounded throughout newsrooms and sports bars around the country - the AP reports that a presumed failed drug test by slugger Barry Bonds was a typo.
A typo in court papers regarding Barry Bonds filed late Thursday by federal prosecutors touched off a brief tempest over the mistaken belief that he failed a drug test in November 2001, one month after breaking the home run record.
In fact, the government meant to reference a previously reported November 2000 failed drug test, U.S. attorney spokesman Josh Eaton said. That drug test was included in the indictment unsealed last year, when prosecutors said the test was for a player they called “Barry B.”
The mistake prompted at least one erroneous report that was quickly posted to Web sites around the country.
The filing amounted to federal prosecutors defending their questioning of Bonds before a grand jury, and urging a judge to keep the slugger’s perjury prosecution on track.
Bonds had argued that the questions posed to him by prosecutors were ambiguous and confusing. He demanded that the five-count indictment charging him with lying to a grand jury be tossed out. Bonds has pleaded not guilty. (Source)
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folks always have to try to tear a black man down!
i’m not so sure if this is just a race thing. i saw them tear the clemmons down yesterday. they grilled the sh*t out of him…and his testimony wasn’t that great. the test don’t lie.
I love and support our athletes–I’m a baseball, basketball and (sometimey) football fan. However, wrong is wrong and a coverup is just that.
I had my suspicions confirmed recently when a White, ex-pro pitcher admitted that he was coached by the league’s higher-ups on how to pass his doping tests after testing positive for drugs. I think this is the case with Bonds.
Baseball, just like some other sports know that breaking records bring excitement and new business to the game; they will cover up just about any negative aspect, given the chance. When it’s all said and done, green is the only color they see–Barry could have been orange and they’d still try keep this from the public. They have better tests in private homes than leagues because some leagues want to turn a blind eye to doping.
I’m sorry, but Barry went from looking average (with and average size head) to looking like that juiced-up Thing from Batman…the one that hung out with Poison Ivy. Forget his new body, how does anyone explain his new king-sized, fat head–a tell-tale sign of steroids?
I don’t think this is a case of Barry being torn down. I think the truth is bursting at the seams and we’re not ready to acknowledge it. I don’t care about what anyone says, I’m still recognizing Henry “Hank” Aaron as the record holder.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to get a new identity.
I agree that wrong is wrong and IF he was using steroids he needs to be punished for that, but I am blown at the fact that my tax dollars are going towards sorting out who cheated in a freaking baseball game!!! I could care less!!!
I am single with no children. Do you know what that means? That means they tax the hell out of me!!! How about use my money to improve the public education system in our country. Or to provide healthcare to broke people like me who can’t afford to buy it, because we’re paying for everyone else’s children to have it!!
whew sorry y’all I had to get that off my chest right quick!! ;O)
No problem, you’re entitled. ;^)
Folks, if we are going to get the people who have used drugs during SPORTS, we might as well shut them all down and put everyone in Jail!