Barry Bonds

The clock is ticking for the baseball Hall of Fame, about 11 months remaining now before the storm. The deepest class of players in decades will become eligible for Cooperstown, and this could get ugly. It won’t be pretty for newly-eligible candidates like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa, all connected to steroids, the [...] Why Barry Bonds Should Play In 2012 is a post by the Best Sports Blogs at BallHyped.com. View and VoteRead Full Story

Barry Bonds has federal approval to pickup a "dangerous weapon" -- namely, a baseball bat -- thanks to a new court order. Bonds is appealing his sentence for felony obstruction of justice -- but for now he's free on a few conditions ... one of which is he cannot possess any "firearm, ammunition, destructive device, or other dangerous weapon." Barry must want to take some batting practice -- because according to docs filed yesterday ... a federal judge has approved his request to make an...Read Full Story

( http://www.balltribe.com ) — The clock is ticking for the baseball Hall of Fame, about 11 months remaining now before the storm. The deepest class of players in decades will become eligible for Cooperstown, and this could get ugly. It won’t be pretty for newly-eligible candidates like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa, all connected to steroids, the rally killer among the electorate Baseball Writers Association of America. And it doesn’t bode well, either, for...Read Full Story

SAN FRANCISCO ( TMZ ) — Former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds now has federal approval to pickup a “dangerous weapon,” namely, a baseball bat, thanks to a new court order. Bonds is appealing his sentence for felony obstruction of justice, but for now he remains free on a few conditions — one of which is that he cannot possess any “firearm, ammunition, destructive device, or other dangerous weapon.” A federal judge this week approved his request to make an exception to the...Read Full Story

Another round in the court is about to proceed to toss out Barry Bonds’ conviction in his obstruction of justice verdict. An appeal was officially submitted in a US Court of Appeals after Bonds was sentenced to spend 30 days in home confinement with location monitoring. He was also obliged by the court to pay $4,000 fine plus 250 hours of community service. Although he was given a lighter sentence for giving an evasive response before a federal grand jury, Bonds camp would like the verdict...Read Full Story