'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Denny Hamlin has targeted the April 27 race at his home track in Richmond for his potential return from a back injury.
A lawyer for Barry Bonds urged a federal appeals court on Wednesday to toss out the slugger's obstruction of justice conviction, saying a rambling answer he gave while testifying before a grand jury was not a crime.
Antron Brown started his week at Miramar College in San Diego, where he used his own experiences in urging students not to set limits on what they can accomplish.
Melky Cabrera's 50-game suspension comes just as reliever Guillermo Mota is nearing his return to the Giants from a 100-game performance-enhancing drug penalty of his own.
Transformable robots and weight-distribution rucksacks are among the cutting-edge products on display at a London showcase for defense science and technology.
The largest federal criminal investigation into sports doping began more than nine years ago with a tax agent digging through the trash of the now notorious Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. Barring an appeal, the government's work comes to an anti-climactic end Friday when Barry Bonds _ the probe's highest-profile catch _ is sentenced for obstruction of justice.
Federal prosecutors dropped all the remaining charges against Barry Bonds on Wednesday, days after a judge upheld the slugger's conviction on an obstruction of justice count.
Barry Bonds' obstruction of justice conviction has been upheld by a federal judge, who denied the home run king's motion for a new trial or acquittal on the charge.
Barry Bonds' obstruction of justice conviction was upheld Friday by a federal judge, who denied the former baseball star's motion for a new trial or acquittal on the charge.
Barry Bonds' obstruction of justice conviction was upheld Friday by a federal judge, who denied the former baseball star's motion for a new trial or acquittal on the charge.
The Barry Bonds trial may have had a strange ending, but his lawyers still face a tough fight in clearing the slugger's name.
Barry Bonds was convicted Wednesday on a single count of obstruction of justice. Here is what that means.
Barry Bonds stepped outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building for the first time as a convicted felon, and a school bus went by. The home-run king flashed a victory sign with two fingers.
In the end, jurors agreed Barry Bonds was evasive when he went before a grand jury more than seven years ago.
Baseball never went after Barry Bonds, despite a failed steroid test and circumstantial evidence that fans in the outfield bleachers could see every time he went to the plate.
"It seems like the races where there is more pressure are hugely important to us, and it seems to be those are the ones that we are able to capitalize on," said Anderson. "I don't have the answer to why, but apparently there's always something left in our minds that we can find to add a little more focus."
"I wish I could explain the success we've had there," he said. "It's so much of a challenge for a driver. It offers like 15 new ways for a driver to look like an idiot out there _ for a driver to fail. We're going to have to have our cars at top song. You've got to have a fast race car, otherwise you can't win these days. The competition in this class is, right now, tougher than it's ever been. There's not a standout favorite anymore."
