Word: sluggers
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INDICTED. GREG ANDERSON, 37, trainer for San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds; REMI KORCHEMNY, 71, prominent track coach; and JAMES VALENTE, 49, and VICTOR CONTE JR., 53, executives of a nutritional-supplements supplier; on 42 counts, including conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering, in what federal prosecutors allege was an elaborate scheme to provide performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball, football and track-and-field athletes; in San Francisco...
After the Sox signed Curt Schilling, the Yanks helped themselves more with four signings—the most prominent of which being slugger Gary Sheffield—addressing their needs and setting up deals to come...
...boxing ring, five seconds can be an eternity, as Alex "the Slugger" Wade learned when Vince "Dynamite" Dickson landed a punch square in his face at the beginning of the second round. Blood trickled from Wade's mouth, and he swayed from side to side. The crowd of 800 at London's York Hall - the spiritual home of British boxing - held its breath. But Wade returned with a flurry of punches, and finished with his pride intact. Despite his tough-guy nickname, Wade, a 37-year-old father of two, is not a professional boxer - he's a lawyer...
...wanted by the FBI for a series of bank heists staged across the American West in the mid-1990s. U.S. officials say Guthrie and Pritchert--a former college baseball star who turned to crime after he felt he had been eclipsed by his teammate and future big-league slugger Barry Bonds--spent much of the $500,000 they allegedly had stolen on day trading and traveling the world. The couple moved to Cape Town three years ago, where Guthrie got a job as a nightclub manager...
DIED. BOBBY BONDS, 57, three-time All-Star, three-time Gold Glove--winning outfielder and father of San Francisco Giants slugger Barry; of lung cancer and a brain tumor; in San Francisco. The elder Bonds, whose pro career lasted from 1968 to 1981, had a rare combination of speed and power, attributes for which his son is also celebrated...