Barry Bonds tested positive for steroids four times from 2000 to 2003

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Documents: Bonds tested positive for steroids four times from 2000 to 2003
[SIZE=-1]San Jose Mercury News[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The highlights of the government's evidence include the following:[/SIZE]

• [SIZE=-1]Of the three positive tests in 2000 and 2001, at least two were for injectable drugs, despite Bonds' testimony that he had not been injected with any steroids by Anderson, and that he generally disliked needles. The drugs were methenelone and nandrolone, the latter an anabolic steroid popular with bodybuilders. Bonds had previously been linked publicly only to the "cream" and the "clear," two Balco steroids administered on the skin and orally. The government obtained the test results from a Southern California lab, Quest Diagnostics, as well as through documents seized from Balco.[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]Evidence Bonds tested positive again in 2003, when all the league's players were tested for steroids under a confidential program administered by Major League Baseball to determine the scope of the steroids problem in the sport. The government's seizure of those test results has produced a legal showdown over privacy rights that is now pending in a federal appeals court.[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]A profanity-laced tape-recorded conversation in March 2003 in the Giants locker room between Anderson and Steve Hoskins, a former associate of Bonds who later had a falling out with the slugger. In that conversation, Anderson appears to be discussing helping administer steroids to Bonds, and ways of avoiding baseball's drug-testing program.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]While Anderson doesn't directly say he gave Bonds steroids, the discussion centers on Hoskins' questions about how the injections are given to Bonds. "Is that why Barry didn't do it in one spot, and you didn't just let him do it one time?'' Hoskins asks at one point.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]"Oh no. I never just go there. I move it all over the place," Anderson replied.[/SIZE]
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• [SIZE=-1]Prosecution plans to call other baseball players, including Jason and Jeremy Giambi, as well as former Giants Bobby Estalella, Marvin Benard and Benito Santiago, as witnesses against Bonds, describing them as "all athletes who obtained steroids from Anderson." The government also plans to call Kimberly Bell, Bonds' former mistress, although at this point does not intend to introduce phone calls she recorded where the superstar had angry outbursts she attributed to steroid use[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]Balco Vice President James Valente, who is expected to verify doping calendars showing Bonds' steroid use and testify that Anderson told him he was giving Bonds steroids and had his urine samples sent off to labs for testing. Asked in May 2006 by prosecutors why he put "Barry B.'' on samples, Valente told a grand jury: "Cause Greg gave it to me and told me,'' a transcript shows....[/SIZE]

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