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'The dog ate my homework'.


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 his grand-jury testimony, Barry Bonds Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24 1964 in Riverside, California) is a left fielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He is the son of former major league All-Star Bobby Bonds, the godson of Hall of Famer Willie Mays, and a distant cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie  of the San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California that currently play in the National League West Division. New York Giants history
Early days and the John McGraw era
, the slugger with 703 home runs and a brazenly bulky body, did not know that the substances he acknowledged using were illegal, steroids obtained by his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, from the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative [BALCO] in California. With art the evidence that the sight of his upper body has supplied in recent years, it's ludicrous for him to have told a grand jury that he thought the substances that Anderson gave him were flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm balm, name for any balsam resin and for several plants, e.g., the bee balm.
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 for arthritis. To obtain that oil and balm, art that Bonds or Anderson had to do was stop by a health store and purchase them off the shelf. Bonds's ignorance of their true identity is more childish than a youngster's excuse that "the dog ate my homework."
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Title Annotation:Opinion
Author:Anderson, Dave
Publication:New York Times Upfront
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 24, 2005
Words:140
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