Barry Bonds, who wrung a confession from Olympic sprinter Marion Jones, who dug through garbage at the Bay Area Laboratory Co - Operative for evidence that it supplied steroids. Novitzky is a bloodhound, he won't let go, this time, Armstrong
jury investigating his use of the ''cream'' and the ''clear.'' It's a good time to declare the Bay Area Laboratory Co - Operative case officially closed. An even better time to declare the steroid era in baseball finally over. If only
with seven major awards, one mistrial and no guilty verdict assured of sticking. Victor Conte, whose Bay Area Laboratory Co - Operative sparked the government investigations of drugs and athletes, has had enough. ''It's a huge waste
causes. Bonds is the last - and highest-profile - defendant in the government's investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co - Operative , or BALCO, a steroids distribution ring. The ex-slugger has long denied knowingly using performance-enhancing
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
government's investigation of BALCO, by testifying that he never knowingly took any illegal substances. The Bay Area Laboratory Co - Operative (BALCO) marketed tetrahydrogestrinone ("The Clear"), a then-undetected, performance-enhancing
those caught following an investigation, started in 2003 and led by federal agent Jeff Novitzky, into the Bay Area Laboratory Co - Operative . Novitzky's investigation included sorting through trash at the BALCO offices to uncover evidence of
The prosecutors were investigating whether 10 players had testified accurately in a case against the Bay Area Laboratory Co - Operative (Balco). During a 2004 raid of the company that oversaw drug tests for those players, the prosecutors
players. Prosecutors initially obtained warrants for only the test results of 10 players as part of the Bay Area Laboratory Co - Operative investigation. Kozinski's majority opinion contained a major change in Fourth Amendment law, ruling
obstruction of justice charges for allegedly lying to a grand jury investigating distribution of steroids by the Bay Area Laboratory Co - Operative . "But that was because he was on the Giants and it wasn't our guy," Klein said. "When there's