It's appears Barry Bonds' long-running criminal case may not go to trial until next year. The legal team for Major League Baseball's home run king, the government lawyers prosecuting him and the judge overseeing the 3-year-old case were unable to set a definitive ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez hit his 599th career home run on Thursday, driving an 0-2 pitch from Kansas City Royals reliever Robinson Tejeda over the right field wall in the seventh inning. A-Rod, as he is known, is trying to become the seventh player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 home runs and ...

Sometime over the next few games or perhaps the next few weeks, Alex Rodriguez will find a pitch he likes and make baseball history. His name will go up among the greats of the game. His accomplishment, though, will always stand alone. Yes, six others are ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court agreed on Friday to throw out key government evidence prosecutors say linked baseball home-run king Barry Bonds to steroid use, dealing a setback to a long-simmering case. The ruling opened the way to a trial over whether Bonds lied about using steroids, but the government now must decide whether to continue with ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home run record holder Barry Bonds should be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame despite suspicions he used performance enhancing drugs, according to a poll of Major League Baseball players. An anonymous player poll conducted by ESPN the Magazine during spring training in March showed 67 percent felt the former San Francisco Giants slugger deserves ...

Home run king Barry Bonds said he is "proud" of slugger Mark McGwire for returning to baseball as the St. Louis Cardinals' hitting coach and for admitting his use of performance-enhancing drugs. "I have a really good friendship with Mark McGwire. I'm proud of him," Bonds said ...

Hank Aaron watches games these days and is perplexed as batter after batter tries to jack pitches out of the ballpark, obsessed with the long ball that made Hammerin' Hank famous. "I don't think they understand the role of what they need to be doing," Aaron said Thursday ...

Barry Bonds is scheduled to return to AT&T Park in April when the San Francisco Giants honor the 10th anniversary of their 2000 NL West championship team. The Giants announced Wednesday that Bonds is one of several players scheduled to take part in ...

Court records show Barry Bonds' wife of 12 years has filed for divorce in Los Angeles. Liz Watson filed to end the couple's marriage on Thursday. She cited irreconcilable differences, and documents state the couple have already reached a settlement agreement. Details of the agreement were not ...

A San Francisco-area supplement manufacturer has agreed to plead guilty to unlawfully distributing products laced with designer steroids as the result of an investigation led by the agent who spearheaded the BALCO probe. As part of the plea bargain, agreed to Wednesday, the company known as American Cellular Labs will ...