Fast Break
Bonds trial
Feds will show steroid use
Federal prosecutors say they will prove personal trainer Greg Anderson supplied Barry Bonds with the steroids that led to a positive test in November 2000, the off-season before the slugger hit a record 73 home runs.
In a court filing Wednesday, prosecutors say they have two documents showing Bonds tested positive for anabolic steroids in 2000 and that Anderson supplied the drugs.
Bonds has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of making false declarations to a grand jury and one count of obstruction.
NFL
Lions fire Millen
Matt Millen’s highly criticized and unproductive tenure with the Detroit Lions has ended.
Lions owner and chairman William Clay Ford announced that Millen has been relieved of his duties as president and chief executive officer, which he held since January 2001.
“I appreciate Matt’s efforts,” Ford said. “Matt worked tirelessly during his tenure to win, and he would be the first one to tell you that you have to win in this league.”
Science
Athletes will donate brains
Six retired NFL players are among a dozen athletes who agreed to donate their brains to study the long-term effects of concussions, The New York Times reported on its Web site Tuesday night.
Former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson, one of the players who committed to the donation, hopes Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy can help clear up the debate.
“I shouldn’t have to prove to anybody that there’s something wrong with me,” Johnson told the newspaper.
The 35-year-old’s neurologist has pointed to Johnson’s multiple concussions between 2002-05 as a cause of his permanent and degenerative problems with memory and depression.
Among the living athletes, most with a history of concussions, who have agreed to donate their brains for examination after their deaths are former NFL players Frank Wycheck, Isaiah Kacyvenski and Ben Lynch. Also participating are Noah Welch, who played hockey for the Florida Panthers last season, and Cindy Parlow, a former member of the U.S. national soccer team.