BALCO scandal

The BALCO Scandal is a scandal involving the use of banned, performance enhancing substances by professional athletes.The Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative was a San francisco Bay area business accused of supplying steriods to Major league baseball players. The incident surrounds a 2002 US Federal government investigation of the laboratory.

BALCO was started by Victor Conte as a sport supplement company. Conte used his knowledge of nutrition, largely self taught, to devise a system of testing athletes for mineral deficiencies in order to maintain a perfect balance of minerals in the body. BALCO did not achieve professional success until the summer of 1996 with the addition of NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski to its clients. From there Conte began acquiring additional high-profile athletes with his special concoction of undetectable drugs, manufactured by Illinois chemist Patrick Arnold and distributed by personal trainer Greg anderson.

 Conte, Arnold and Anderson continued selling these substances undetected from 1988 until 2002 when the official federal investigation of BALCO began. Parallel with this investigation, the USADA began its own covert investigation of Conte and his operation. In the summer of 2003 USADA investigators received a syringe with trace amounts of a mysterious substance. The anonymous tipster was Trevor graham sprint coach to Marion Jones  and Tim Montegomery. Threw these investigations they found a substance named THG which was an anabolic steriod they test 550 athletes and 20 tested postive for this substance that were assiocated with the BALCO company. The investigation has brought down many for athletes know most notably Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi Marion Jones and Bill Romanowski and is still an on going investigation.

Mark McGwire

Mark McGwire nicknamed "Big Mac", is a formerMajor League Baseball player who played his major league career with theOakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. He is now the batting coach fo the St. Louis Cardinals. In 1987, he broke the single-season home run record for rookies, with 49. In 1998 McGwire and Sammy Sosa achieved national fame for their home run-hitting. That year McGwire hit 70 home runs breaking the major league record at the time.

In 2010, after accepting the position of Cardinals hitting coach, McGwire admitted to using steroids during his playing career. Many of McGwire's accomplishments, exspecially 1998 season in which he broke Roger Maris' single season home run record, came under suspicion during Major League Baseball's steriod scandal in the 1990s.
 
Mcgwire once said "I wish I had never touched steroids. It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era."

Barry Bonds

Barry bonds played for the San Francisco Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates and was one of the biggest sluggers in the Major Leagues. He played from 1986 to 2007 and it now the Major League leading home run hitter ever with 762 home runs.

In 2007 Bonds was indictd on charges of perjury and obstrution of justice for allegedly lieing to a grand jury during the governments investagation of the BALCO scandal but he tesified that he never knowingly took steriords.


But did Bonds use steriods?
And how dont you know you are taking steriods?
Should Hank Arron still have the title of having the most home runs ever in a career?

roger clemens

Roger Clemens, nicknamed "Rocket" was born August 4, 1962 and played 23 seasons as a major league pitcher for the boston red sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros and the New York Yankees. He is now in supreme court for the use of HGH an anabolic steroid.

He currently is being arraigned for lieing in supreme court. He is facing six felony counts involving perjury, false statements and obstruction of Congress. Which he pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Do you think he used the steriods and if so why wouldnt he admitt to using them so he wouldnt be facing these charges.