May 21, 2013

EUR Sports Bits: Barry Bonds Plaque Stolen – Mike Brown to Coach Cavs

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*It looks like somebody ether loves Barry Bonds and desperately wants a memento of him or somebody hates him and wants to be negative by stealing the commemorative plaque honoring the home run king’s record 756th clout from AT&T Park. According to ESPN, San Francisco Giants spokeswoman Staci Slaughter said Tuesday night that the reigning [...]




EUR Sports Bits: Ndamukong Suh, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa & LeBron James

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*For kicking an opponent on Sunday, Ndamukong Suh was fined $30,000 by the NFL on Wednesday.  However, the Detroit Lions defensive tackle says he didn’t kick Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub on purpose. Suh says that’s why he doesn’t need to apogize to Schaub. *Look who’s on the baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the [...]




Barry Bonds’ House Arrest Sentence Delayed Pending Appeal

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*Barry Bonds will remain free while he appeals his conviction for giving misleading testimony before a grand jury, reports ESPN. Bonds was sentenced in federal court Friday to 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service — then the judge delayed the sentence pending an appeal likely to [...]




Photos: Johnny Gill Joined by Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant at GRAMMY Museum

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*Recently at LA Live, in downtown Los Angeles, the GRAMMY Museum hosted “The Drop: Johnny Gill.” The artist sat down with Vice President of the GRAMMY Foundation Scott Goldman to discuss his career along with the upcoming release of his first album in 16 years, Still Winning, which will be released on October 11. Jimmy [...]




Audio: Mario Lopez Introduces Celebs to their ‘H8Rs’

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*This week, CW will debut its new series that boasts of bringing celebrities face to face with their haters. [Scroll down for the trailer.] Hosted by Mario Lopez, “H8R,” premiering at 8 p.m. on Wednesday (Sept. 14), features Snooki from “The Jersey Shore” and Jake Pavelka from “The Bachelor” in the first episode — each [...]




Barry Bonds’ Conviction Stands

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*He tried to fight it, but the judgment is just going to have to stick. Barry Bonds attempted to get his conviction on obstruction of justice overturned, but the judge just wasn’t hearing it. According to CNN, San Francisco Judge Susan Illston issued a 20-page order denying a new trial. In 2003, the slugger got [...]




Barry Bonds to Pay College Tuition for Injured Giants Fan’s Kids

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*Barry Bonds is reportedly paying for critically injured Giants fan Bryan Stow to send his children to college, according to a lawyer for the family. Los Angeles police have arrested one of two men accused of viciously attacking Stow after opening day at Dodgers’ Stadium. Last month Bonds visited Stow in L.A. during treatment for [...]




Barry Bonds Found Guilty of Obstruction

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*Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice Wednesday but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using steroids and human growth hormone. The verdict, following a 12-day trial and almost four full days of deliberation, was [...]




Barry Bonds Trial: Jury in Day Three of Deliberations

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*The jurors charged with deciding the Barry Bonds perjury case will try again to reach a verdict during a third day of deliberations. The jury of eight women and four men failed Monday for the second day in a row to reach a verdict. The jury deliberated all day Friday as well, according to Reuters. [...]




Bonds Trial: Defense Calls No Witnesses; Closing Arguments Begin

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*After more than two weeks of testimony from more than two dozen prosecution witnesses, defense lawyers for Barry Bonds did not put on a single witness Wednesday, setting up today’s presentation of losing arguments. Bonds is charged with three counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. He told a grand [...]




Bonds Trial: Ex-Mistress Describes Shrinking Testicles, Verbal Abuse

Kimberly Bell, a former mistress of San Francisco Giant slugger Barry Bonds, leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, California March 28, 2011.Bell said in court on Monday that the baseball star's testicles changed shape and he often became enraged with her, which prosecutors say is evidence that Bond used steroids.

*Barry Bonds’ former mistress Kimberly Bell was called to the stand of his perjury trial on Monday, offering explicit testimony about her relationship with the baseball player and the various physical and psychological changes she witnessed in him – which she attributes to the use of steroids. Bell testified that Bonds blamed a 1999 elbow [...]




ESPN, Your Place for Barry Bonds Trial Coverage

Former Major League Baseball player Barry Bonds (L) and his former trainer Greg Anderson arrives for an arraignment hearing on March 1, 2011 in San Francisco

*ESPN has announced it will provide coverage across all platforms of the perjury trial of home-run champion Barry Bonds starting Monday in San Francisco. Among those contributing to the network’s coverage will be investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada, credited with exposing the BALCO steroid scandal while writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, and T.J. Quinn, who [...]




Barry Bonds Perjury Trial Gets Ugly Before it even Starts

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*On Thursday a federal judge refused to allow the jury at Barry Bonds’ perjury trial to listen to angry voicemails he left with his mistress during a stormy nine-year relationship. Prosecutors wanted to introduce the voicemails to show that Bonds was experiencing so-called “roid rage” when he left the messages demanding to know the whereabouts [...]




Barry Bonds’ Charges Reduced

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*Federal prosecutors have cut the number of felony charges Barry Bonds faces from 11 to five. In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors filed their third revised indictment against Bonds, who is scheduled to stand trial March 21. In the new indictment, they reduced from nine to three the number of charges alleging Bonds lied under [...]




Shane Mosley’s Lawsuit against BALCO Founder Dismissed

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*A $12 million defamation lawsuit filed against BALCO founder Victor Conte by boxer “Sugar” Shane Mosley has been dismissed, reports the New York Daily News. According to documents filed on Friday in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the case was “voluntarily dismissed with prejudice and without costs, disbursements or attorney’s fees to any [...]