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Posts tagged: Steroids

Bonds Given 30 Days Of House Arrest

Former baseball player Barry Bonds leaves federal court after being sentenced for obstructing justice in a government steroids investigation on Friday in San Francisco. A federal judge handed Bonds a sentence of 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service, but delayed the sentence pending an appeal likely to take a year or more. Story here. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Question: Has Barry Bonds home run records been tarnished/enhanced by the relative slap on the wrist he received after years of being pursued by government investigators & prosecutors?

In The News: A-Roid Admits Drug Use

 In this video frame grab, Alex Rodriguez is interviewed by ESPN’s Peter Gammons today. Rodriguez admitted during the interview that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001-03, saying he did so because of the pressures of being baseball’s highest-paid player. Story here. (AP Photo/ESPN)

Question: Does this change you opinion of Alex Rodriguez?

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.

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