Willie Mays has repeatedly called for Barry Bonds' induction into the baseball Hall of Fame. Now, the home run king is effectively shut out from inclusion in what many consider to be baseball's greatest honor.
Everyone knows that asking an older woman about her age is something you should avoid, but yesterday a young girl had the courage to ask First Lady Michelle Obama. During the White House’s Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, a child in the audience questioned FLOTUS about her age. “How old are you?” […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds will remain free while he appeals his conviction for giving misleading testimony before a grand jury. SEE ALSO: Man Steals His Date’s Car A federal judge handed Bonds a sentence of 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service on Friday – then […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds lives on a two-acre estate in Beverly Hills in a house with six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The largest federal criminal investigation into sports doping began more than nine years ago with a tax agent digging through the trash of the now notorious Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. Barring an appeal, the government’s work comes to an anti-climactic end Friday when Barry Bonds – the probe’s highest-profile catch – […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Bonds’ lawyers asked a federal judge Tuesday to follow a federal probation officer’s recommendation and give Major League Baseball’s career home run leader probation when he’s sentenced for obstruction of justice this month. SEE ALSO: All Eight Sandusky Accusers To Testify Bonds, 47, was convicted in April of obstructing a grand […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds wants another turn at bat in the federal case against him in San Francisco. The slugger’s attorneys filed a motion Wednesday asking a judge to change Bonds’ obstruction of justice conviction to an acquittal or schedule a new trial. He was convicted of obstructing a grand jury’s steroids investigation by […]
SAN FRANCISCO-Barry Bonds says he will pay for the college tuition of Bryan Stow’s children after Stow, a San Fancisco Giants fan, was given brain damage by a brutal beating he received at Dodgers Stadium by an L.A. Dodgers fan. Stow is a single father with two children in grade school. RELATED STORIES Barry Bonds […]
In a Black Planet/NewsOne poll conducted after the guilty verdict was handed down in the Barry Bonds trial, 84 percent of respondents unanimously believe that the former Giants star knowingly took steroids during his career. Sixteen percent of respondents polled believe Barry never took performance enhancing drugs. The poll, which had 325 respondents, was surprising […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds was found guilty of obstruction of justice but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury in 2003 when he specifically denied that he knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone. Following a 12-day trial and almost […]
A writer for the New York Times, William C. Rhoden, has an article in which he compares baseball player, Barry Bonds to boxer, Jack Johnson for the animosity both received by the white American public. RELATED: Beyonce hires 200 African dancers for new video In 1913, the government hid behind the Mann Act to prosecute […]
SAN FRANCISCO — One of the five charges in Barry Bonds’ perjury trial has been dropped and the defense has rested without calling a single witness.
