MORE ON: Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds’ former girlfriend testified Monday that the Giants star confessed to her in 1999 that he was using steroids. Kimberly Bell, a former graphic artist from San Jose who says she dated Bonds from 1994 to 2003, told the jury that Bonds blamed an elbow injury on his use of banned... + read more

Claiming Barry Bonds’ steroid use was “out of hand,” the slugger’s former business manager said today he made a secret recording in the Giants’ clubhouse as part of a campaign to dissuade Bonds from using banned drugs. Steve Hoskins, a boyhood friend of Bonds who... + read more

The federal drug agent who spearheaded the BALCO steroids case accused Barry Bonds yesterday of thwarting his investigation by giving grand jury testimony that was “inconsistent with the facts.” Jeff Novitzky, the government’s point man on a series of high-profile probes into... + read more

A jury of eight women and four men was selected Monday to hear the perjury trial of Barry Bonds, former San Francisco Giants slugger and baseball’s reigning home run champion. Federal judge Susan Illston spent only one day to choose the jury that will weigh the evidence against Bonds,... + read more

As the federal trial gets under way, a jury will be asked to decide whether Barry Bonds set his home-run record while on steroids. + read more

During the nine years when Kimberly Bell was Barry Bonds’ girlfriend, she had an old-style answering machine with cassette tapes. When a tape was full, she would throw it in a drawer and put in another one. And so, in 2005, when she was subpoenaed by the federal grand jury that was... + read more