BALCO Defendants Seek to Have Steroid Case Dropped
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Defendants at the center of the BALCO steroid scandal asked a court to drop charges against them on Friday, claiming misconduct by prosecutors in a case that has tarnished some of the top names in sport.
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Barry Bonds' personal trainer may go back to jail for refusing again to testify about his acquaintances before a grand jury. What he told federal prosecutors, however, has dragged Tom Brady's name into the BALCO case.
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Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters are appealing a judge's order to tell a federal grand jury who leaked them secret testimony from Barry Bonds and other elite athletes ensnared in the government's steroid probe.
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The head of Balco, a US lab accused of supplying steroids to sport stars, asks a court to drop all charges.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - A California athletics coach who pleaded guilty in the BALCO doping scandal on Monday became the first coach to be disciplined by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), officials said.
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Major League Baseball's union is fighting to keep secret up to 23 players named as customers by an admitted steroids dealer, according to recent court filings.
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BOSTON -- Charges will be dropped against two former New York Yankees ballplayers who allegedly assaulted a Fenway Park groundskeeper in a bullpen fight during one of last year&#39;s American League Championship Series games between New York and Boston.
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A federal judge said on Thursday   the two journalists who refused to reveal their source in the   BALCO steroids scandal should go to prison, but he did not   implement his decision pending an appeal of the case.
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Olympic athletics champion Marion Jones filed a defamation lawsuit yesterday against BALCO head Victor Conte, who told a US television audience that he gave her steroids and watched her inject herself with them.
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The federal judge presiding over the Balco steroids distribution case ruled Tuesday that three of the four defendants could try to convince her that statements
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Two years in prison is not enough punishment for the defense lawyer who leaked Barry Bonds' testimony from a grand jury investigating steroids in pro sports, a federal judge ruled on Thursday in rejecting a plea deal in the case.
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THE BALCO Labs executive director accused of steroid distribution has asked a US federal court to drop charges against him because of procedural errors made at the time of his arrest.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - Don Catlin, head of the  Los Angeles laboratory which identified a test for the designer  steroid THG, believes the BALCO scandal has ultimately helped  the war on drugs in sport.
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Two former New York Yankees players who allegedly assaulted a Fenway Park groundskeeper during the 2003 American League Championship series could have charges against them dropped if they perform community service and possibly undergo counseling.
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Lawyers for Michael Jackson have asked a judge to dismiss the child molestation charges against him, claiming that prosecutors were improperly trying to &#39;shock and intimidate&#39; the pop star when they raided his Neverland Valley Ranch two weeks ago.
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On Thursday, the very same edition of the San Francisco Chronicle that disclosed secret grand jury testimony on steroid use by burly Yankees slugger Jason Giambi also carried another BALCO story
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Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters will avoid jail time under a plea agreement by a criminal defense lawyer who admitted leaking them secret grand jury documents from the BALCO steroids investigation.