Bonds to learn fate

Home run king Barry Bonds may be confined to his Beverly Hills home, imprisoned for 15 months or simply placed on probation after he is sentenced today for giving evasive testimony to a federal grand jury probing sports doping. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who presided over Bonds’ perjury trial earlier this year, has sentenced other athletes convicted of lying during the probe to probation and home confinement. Distributors of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs served three to four months in prison for those crimes. Federal sentencing guidelines recommend 15 to 21 months in prison for obstruction, but probation officials have said Bonds’ offense warrants much less, including no jail time. – Los Angeles Times