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BARRY BONDS needs only seven more home runs to surpass Babe Ruth's career total of 714. But this season the San Francisco Giant will bat to some boos, since a new book detailing the surly slugger's alleged steroid abuse is scheduled to hit stores in time for opening day. In Game of Shadows, two San Francisco Chronicle reporters write that Bonds, 41, first tried performance-enhancing drugs in 1998 out of jealousy toward heavier hitters Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Bonds has denied knowingly using steroids, and his lawyer questions the book's credibility. But baseball commissioner...
...degree cold last week. “The dirt was like playing in a sandbox. [This weekend] we were getting sunburned, but we were all loving it.”The Gators once again played without 2005 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Player of the Year Matt LaPorta, a slugger who has missed time since straining an oblique muscle in February. The sputtering Florida lineup, which had been partly responsible for the team’s freefall from No. 1 in the Baseball America national rankings last month, flexed its muscles against the Crimson’s pitching, rapping out 38 hits...
...major reason for Florida’s recent slide has been injury trouble. All-America slugger Matt LaPorta, the Division I home run leader a season ago, has been sidelined for the past several weeks and a number of other key players are also on the shelf...
...rookie year of eligibility. But "Stretch" always started fast. The San Francisco Giant first baseman was a Rookie of the Year in 1959. Second in this year's voting, four votes below the 319 needed, was Billy Williams, hard-hitting outfielder for the Chicago Cubs. But Yankee Slugger Roger Maris, whose 61 homers in 1961 broke Babe Ruth's immortal record, died last month while ballots were being cast and came in fifth with...
Times columnist Maureen Dowd excoriated Summers in four separate columns between January and March, at one point comparing him to steroid-popping slugger Jose Canseco. “The ‘different socialization’ Dr. Summers talks about may be getting worse, thanks to goofballs like him,” Dowd wrote in that column. “How did he get to be head of Harvard anyway...