Barry Bonds’ sample from 2003 tests positive for PEDs

The giant head never gave it away for us. Never. His cap size has increased, even as he lost hair.

A urine sample that Barry Bonds provided as part of the anonymous testing that baseball conducted in 2003 has tested positive for performance-enhancing substances, according to people familiar with the matter. Although the sample did not test positive under baseball’s program, it was retested by federal authorities after they seized it in a 2004 raid, and it may now become a key factor in Bonds’s perjury trial, the people said. Bonds’s trial is scheduled to begin March 2. He faces charges that he lied when he said he had never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs during testimony before a federal grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative. – From NY Times

A urine sample that Barry Bonds submitted as part of Major League Baseball’s anonymous testing program in 2003 has come back positive for PEDs, according to a New York Times report. Bonds provided samples that did not test positive under that program, but the samples were re-examined by federal authorities after they were seized in a 2004 raid, The Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. – From ESPN

A federal judge plans to unseal on Wednesday hundreds of pages of court documents at the heart of the government’s case against Barry Bonds for allegedly lying to a grand jury about steroid use. Among those documents will be several positive drug test results that prosecutors say belong to Bonds. One is a urine sample submitted by Bonds during baseball’s anonymous testing program in 2003, according to a New York Times report. – From SFgate.com