4.25.2004

MORE ON THE BALCO INVESTIGATION
The circumstantial evidence against Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield and Jason Giambi just a little more troubling for the three baseball sluggers. It has been reported that Victor Conte has admitted to supplying 27 different athletes with performance enhancing drugs.

This is from the ESPN.com article...
"According to the Mercury News, Conte, in the report by IRS agent Jeff Novitzky and co-signed by San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force officer Jon Columbet, is quoted as saying:

Bonds' trainer, Greg Anderson, brought Bonds and several other baseball players to BALCO to obtain drugs at the beginning of the 2003 season. The steroids were the allegedly giving to Bonds in exchange for his endorsement of Conte's legal supplement, ZMA -- a zinc- and magnesium-based, legal nutritional product."


As Barry Bonds continues to dominate on the baseball field it becomes more and more evident that this BALCO investigation and the steroid scandal surrounding Major League Baseball will not just go away. As Bonds closes in on Babe Ruth and when he eventually passes Hank Aaron to possess the most prestigious career record in all of sports, it will be completely tainted because of Bonds' association with BALCO. No matter whether or not he is innocent, it won't matter, because there is always going to be the cloud of the BALCO investigation surrounding him and his legacy.

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