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Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa are listed on the baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the first time, setting up an election sure to become a referendum on the Steroids Era.

Barry Bonds. Guilty on a technicality. At least that's how much of the public sees it. It's all that came out of a seven-year investigation into baseball's home run king. Lance Armstrong. Not even prosecuted. A two-year, multi-continent investigation brought to a close this year with no charges filed. Now Roger Clemens. Acquitted on all counts. A five-year investigation ended with the top pitcher of his generation celebrating with family hugs inside the courtroom.

Barry Bonds was sentenced to two years of probation and 30 days of house arrest for obstruction of justice in a probe that looked at athletes' illegal steroid use.

A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday denied Barry Bonds’s request to drop his obstruction of justice conviction, upholding that jury verdict and also rejecting Bonds’s request for a new trial on that charge.

A U.S. jury convicted Barry Bonds on Wednesday of one count of obstructing justice but deadlocked on three other charges of whether baseball's home run king lied to a grand jury investigating the use of steroids in sports.

A federal prosecutor told jurors in the Barry Bonds perjury trial Thursday that the former San Francisco Giants slugger "was given every opportunity to tell the truth" when he denied that he knowingly using steroids but lied to protect a "powerful secret."

Barry Bonds' defense rested Wednesday without calling a single witness in the federal perjury trial.

Legal analysts say the testimony of former Bonds aide Kathy Hoskins, who testified she saw the slugger's personal trainer inject him in the navel, may be a key point in the trial.

Two people who were once close to Barry Bonds have now laid out a similar story and timeline for his alleged use of steroids.

A star government witness in the Barry Bonds perjury trial took the stand Wednesday morning and testified that the slugger ordered him in 1999 to research the effects of a steroid....