The News Review:
- … Unseals Barry Bonds’ 2003 Testimony About Steroid Use…
- WICB renews tie-up with Ten Sports
- Thursday’s Sports Transactions
- Second Missouri Southern athlete diagnosed with meningitis – College…
- Arnold Sports Festival: Q&A with Derek Poundstone
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
… Unseals Barry Bonds’ 2003 Testimony About Steroid Use…
FOXNews – Feb 29, 2008
Bonds is charged with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction for allegedly lying 19 different times during his December 2003 testimony to a grand jury investigating steroid use in professional sports. The indictment, unsealed in November, cites snippets of testimony where Bonds denies ever ingesting steroids or human growth hormone. It quotes Bonds denying his personal trainer Greg Anderson ever injected him with steroids, which prosecutors allege is a lie. During his grand jury appearance, prosecutors also presented Bonds with a drug test showing a positive steroids result for a player they called “Barry B. ” Bonds said he never before saw those results.
WICB renews tie-up with Ten Sports
Economic Times – Feb 29, 2008
Ten Sports has the
broadcast rights to the Middle-East and South-East Asia and will also distribute
the events worldwide, with the exception of the UK, Ireland and Caribbean, where
Sky Sports has the rights. Market sources told ET that the deal was struck for
$60 million. WICB president Julian R Hunte said: ?The deal
with Ten Sports will give us financial resources we need to support our
strategic plan, the main goal of which is to take West Indies cricket to the
pinnacle of world cricket by 2012. The platform on which we will build the
future is cricket development at all levels and in all the countries of the
Caribbean.
Thursday’s Sports Transactions
USA Today – Feb 29, 2008
OAKLAND ATHLETICS-Agreed to terms with LHP Jerry Blevins, RHP Andrew Brown, LHP Dana Eveland, C Kurt Suzuki, INF Daric Barton, OF Jack Cust and OF Ryan Sweeney on one-year contracts. SEATTLE MARINERS-Agreed to terms with RHP Cha Seung Baek, RHP Anderson Garcia, RHP Sean Green, RHP Jon Huber, RHP Mark Lowe, RHP Joe Woerman, LHP Eric O’Flaherty, LHP Ryan Feierabend, LHP Cesar Jimenez, LHP Ryan Rowland-Smith, IF Yung Chi Chen, IF Bryan LaHair, OF Wladimir Balentien, OF Charlton Jimerson, C Jamie Burke, C Jeff Clement and C Rob Johnson on one-year contracts. National LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES-Agreed to terms with RHP Manny Corpas on a four-year contract. LOS ANGELES DODGERS-Agreed to terms with RHP Chad Billingley, OF Andre Ethier, C Russell Martin, 1B James Loney, LHP Hong-Chih Kuo and 3B Andy LaRoche on one-year contracts.
Second Missouri Southern athlete diagnosed with meningitis – College…
ESPN – Feb 29, 2008
– A second baseball player is being treated for the same meningitis believed to have killed a teammate at Missouri Southern, but officials say nobody else had reported symptoms as of Friday. The second player was not identified by university officials, citing medical privacy laws. Health officials in Joplin, where the university is located, said the young man was responding well to medical treatment. The player was among a group of 15 to 20 people at increased risk of infection because of their association with Danny Sickles, the Missouri Southern pitcher who died Saturday at his off-campus apartment. An autopsy found that Sickles, 20, died of bacterial meningitis.
Arnold Sports Festival: Q&A with Derek Poundstone
Columbus Dispatch – Feb 29, 2008
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The Arnold Sports Festival returns to Columbus this weekend, with some 17,000 competitorstaking part in events ranging from table tennis to arm wrestling. Each day, The Dispatch catches up with a participant. DEREK POUNDSTONEAge: 26Size: 6 feet 1, 310 poundsHometown: Waterbury, Conn. Residence: Waterbury, Conn. Occupation: Police officerAchievements: Won the 2007 America’s Strongest Man national championship in NorthCarolina.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Feb 29, 2008
18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver circled the variable- banked, 1. 5-mile speedway in 29.
