Bonds among baseball players receiving steroids: report

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — San Francisco Giants superstar Barry Bonds reportedly is among the prominent Major League Baseball players to receive steroids from a nutritional supplement lab at the center of a federal probe.

Citing information given to federal investigators, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on its website that Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield of the New York Yankees also received illegal performance-enhancing drugs from BALCO Laboratories.

The newspaper reported that the drugs were obtained through Greg Anderson, Bonds' personal trainer who is among four men charged with taking part in a steroid distribution ring that provided substances to professional athletes.

BALCO founder Victor Conte, lab vice president James Valente and athletics coach Remi Korchemny also have been charged in the case. All four have pleaded not guilty.

Bonds, Giambi and Sheffield were among those to testify last year before a grand jury hearing the case.

The Chronicle also reported ...