...sentencing.Bonds is the last ? and highest-profile ? defendant in the government's investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO, a steroids distribution ring.Illston said she was compelled to give Bonds a sentence similar...

...some athletes that they had taken PEDs.The most famous of these investigations involved the notorious Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, a steroids ring operating just outside San Francisco. And while the sentences were relatively light, the...

...a sprawling sports doping investigation that shut down a steroids distribution ring headquartered at the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, better known as BALCO.Bonds was initially charged in 2007 and only went to trial after years of delays...

...banned as prejudicial.Bonds was among the biggest stars convicted as a result of an investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) steroids ring, a probe headed by federal agent Jeff Novitzky. Novitzky also is at the forefront...

...government in an effort to seize data as to which it lacked probable cause," wrote Chief Judge Alex Kozinski. Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative founder Victor Conte has long been critical of the actions of the government, especially then lead investigator...

...federal court, allege Stubblefield lied to an IRS agent when he said he had not used steroids linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative and denied receiving performance enhancers. The plea deal calls for the 37-year-old Stubblefield to...

...the elite level of sport." Conte, who pleaded guilty to operating a steroids distribution ring at the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, said in an e-mail that he plans to meet with Dick Pound in New York on Wednesday. Conte was released...

...seen these documents," Barry Bonds said. He was testifying before a federal grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO, and had just been shown what prosecutors say was a positive steroid test conducted on a player...

...professional sports. Home run king Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants also has been linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, and was one of more than two dozen athletes who testified before a federal grand jury in 2003. The International...

...A federal grand jury is investigating whether Bonds perjured himself when he testified in 2003 in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid distribution case that he hadn't knowingly taken any performance-enhancing drugs. He begins...