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NEW YORK (SI.com) -- Beginning in 1998 with injections in his buttocks of Winstrol, a powerful steroid, Barry Bonds took a wide array of performance-enhancing drugs over at least five seasons...*SNIP* ...By 2001, when Bonds broke Mark McGwire's single-season home-run record (70) by belting 73, Bonds was using two designer steroids referred to as the Cream and the Clear, as well as insulin, human growth hormone, testosterone decanoate (a fast-acting steroid known as Mexican beans) and trenbolone, a steroid created to improve the muscle quality of cattle. BALCO tracked Bonds' usage with doping calendars and folders -- detailing drugs, quantities,...

WASHINGTON -- Rafael Palmeiro gave his first public explanation of his failed drug test Wednesday, on the eve of a congressional report on whether the former Baltimore Orioles slugger lied under oath when he denied using steroids. In a statement released by his lawyer, Palmeiro acknowledged several facts of his case that already had been reported, including that the anabolic steroid stanozolol was found in his system in May, and that he had raised the possibility that a shot of vitamin B12 he took in April "might have been the cause." "I have never intentionally taken steroids," Palmeiro said in...

Rafael Palmeiro vowed to tell his side of the story after he was suspended for steroid use in August. He said he did not knowingly inject steroids into his body. No, no, no. Never. Ever. And oh how he wanted to make that clear to the public and the perjury-minded members of Congress. But now we know better. We know Palmeiro believes he tested positive because of a dose of B-12 vitamin supplied by teammate Miguel Tejada. At least that was his theory during his grievance hearing. It could have been the B-12. Yep. Or maybe someone stuck something in...

Rafael Palmeiro's baseball season is over, the Baltimore Orioles told him Friday, the result of a positive test for steroids that severely tainted his remarkable career and proved to be too big a distraction for his teammates to ignore. "He won't be dressing for the rest of the year," Orioles executive vice president Jim Beattie said. "We felt it wouldn't be appropriate for the organization." The abrupt end to Palmeiro's season came one day after it was learned that he cited a vitamin he received from teammate Miguel Tejada as possibly causing the positive steroid test. The Orioles said Major...

Rafael Palmeiro told baseball's arbitration panel that a vitamin he received from Baltimore Orioles teammate Miguel Tejada might have caused his positive test for steroid use. Palmeiro testified that he received B-12 from Tejada, a person familiar with the grievance hearing said Thursday on condition of anonymity because the proceedings were secret. "Right now I'm in shock," Tejada, a former American League MVP, said after Baltimore lost to the Yankees on Thursday night. "I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life." Palmeiro's lawyers, Mayer, Brown, Rowe...

Washington Nationals manager Frank Robinson wants Rafael Palmeiro's hitting statistics wiped out because the Baltimore Orioles first baseman failed a drugs test. "He was found to have used steroids and he served a 10-day suspension," Robinson told MLB.com. Palmeiro was suspended on August 1 after a positive test for a steroid. He told a U.S. congressional committee in March that he had never used steroids. Robinson, a former Baltimore player, manager and club official, also said baseball should not be required to research when a player started using steroids and then remove records for certain seasons. "Where do you go...

Rafael Palmeiro: He’ll have more than 3,000 hits and 500 homers yet he’s never started an All-Star Game and some – stunningly – question his Hall of Fame credentials.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Rafael Palmeiro believes he "soon" will be able to explain himself and tell people why he tested positive for steroids. "My day will come when I can say what happened. As of right now, I can't say anything. Hopefully soon," Palmeiro said Monday, a day after the embattled Baltimore slugger returned to the lineup following a 10-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball's steroid policy. He wasn't in the Orioles' starting lineup when the club began a three-game series against the Oakland Athletics. On Sunday, Palmeiro went 0-for-4 with a walk in his return at Camden Yards...

HUNT VALLEY, Md. -- Calling steroid use "cheating" and a "black cloud" hanging over Major League Baseball, former Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken said he was dismayed Rafael Palmeiro tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance and was suspended. Speaking Tuesday at a media event for next month's Constellation Energy Classic, the Champions Tour golf event for which he is honorary chairman, Ripken said he was "shocked, surprised, just like everyone else. I hope there's a reason or an explanation." Ripken, who played with Palmeiro from 1994 to 1998, said he was in the Bahamas when he learned his former teammate...

Rafael Palmeiro, the Baltimore Orioles star, told Congress that he had absolutely, positively never used steroids, but then he failed a urine test. So last week, he repeated his never-ever statement but inserted a new word: He never intentionally used them. He said: "I am sure you will ask how I tested positively for a banned substance. As I look back, I don't have a specific answer to give. I wasn't able to explain how the banned substance entered my body."

It is now becomes ever clearer the 20th century's last decade could go down in history as the Decade of Illusion. There was the tech bubble whose detumescence was predicted by some of the same engineering geniuses who had created the technological marvels it was based on -- for instance, Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and a major force in creating the Internet. He predicted the bubble's burst almost to the day. Another illusion of the 1990s was that, with the fall of communism, barbarism vanished. The world would be safe. Our military budget could be trimmed. All we needed...

Posted on Thu, Aug. 04, 2005 R E L A T E D C O N T E N T Rafael Palmeiro in his Texas Rangers uniform in 2003. JEFFERY WASHINGTON, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Rafael Palmeiro in his Texas Rangers uniform in 2003. Bush's loyalty raises doubts about his political judgment By William Douglas Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent wasn't surprised this week when President Bush supported embattled Baltimore Orioles slugger Rafael Palmeiro after he tested positive for steroids by saying the star first baseman was a trusted friend. When Bush owned the...

US President George W. Bush has defended his longtime friend Rafael Palmeiro -- the professional ballplayer suspended this week for using performance-enhancing drugs -- saying he is convinced by Palmeiro's assertions that he never intentionally used steroids. "Rafael Palmeiro is a friend. He testified in public and I believe him," Bush said in an interview published Tuesday in several Texas newspapers. "He's the kind of person that's going to stand up in front of the klieg lights and say he didn't use steroids, and I believe him. Still do," the US president said. Bush's friendship with Palmeiro dates back to...

Perjury will be explored. U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, a Republican from Virginia, told The Associated Press his House committee will investigate whether baseball slugger Rafael Palmeiro committed perjury when he told Congress earlier this year that he never took steroids. The House Government Reform Committee wants the documents that explain the positive drug test that has put the Baltimore Orioles first baseman on ice for 10 days. Palmeiro has pledged his full cooperation to Congress, and has agreed to release details of the test. That would include the results, dates of the tests and other relevant facts. Palmeiro's the highest-profile...

Rick Sutcliffe, the star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in the late 1980s, recalls the day that teammate Rafael Palmeiro, a first baseman-outfielder, was on his way out of Chicago. "It was (general manager) Jim Frey and (manager) Don Zimmer who both said, 'This guy will never hit for power,' " Sutcliffe recalled. "I remember a situation where there was a man at first and nobody out. Zimmer's big deal was to pull the ball as a lefthanded hitter. A base hit to right and you go first to third. A base hit to left, you only go first to...

White House, Palmeiro Deny Canseco's Steroid Allegations Ex-Slugger's Book Reportedly Said Bush Must Have Known About Steroids WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 7) - President Bush was not aware of any steroid use by Texas Rangers players while he was a team executive, the White House said Monday. In his upcoming book, Jose Canseco said he introduced Rafael Palmeiro, Ivan Rodriguez and Juan Gonzalez to steroids after being traded to Texas in 1992, the New York Daily News reported. Canseco said Bush, the Rangers' managing partner at the time, must have known about the drugs. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said...

So future Hall of Famer Rafael Palmeiro is guilty of steroids abuse after all. Steroids? Palmeiro? Who could have possibly imagined that? You may recall that Palmeiro became indignant when career knucklehead Jose Canseco implicated him with his tell-all book. He insisted he never juiced up. He positioned himself as an anti-steroids zealot. While Mark McGwire was damning himself with those mish-mash answers before Congress, Palmeiro was emphatic in his testimony on Capitol Hill. ... While the hapless McGwire came off like a fool, Palmeiro presented himself as a hero. But a lot of us never bought into his act....