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  • Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Bartolo Colon, a former Cy Young Award winner, was suspended for 50 games on Aug. 22, after testing positive for testosterone. Colon joined San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera on the suspended list for the rest of the regular season. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Jose Luis Villegas)
  • Melky Cabrera was suspended on Aug. 15, 2012, for 50 games following a positive test for testosterone, (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
  • SF Giants Guillermo Mota was suspended on May 7, 2012, for 100 games.
  • Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using steroids and human growth hormone.
  • Roger Clemens was indicted in August 2010 for allegedly making false statements about his use of performance-enhancing drugs to Congress during his February 2008 hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The charges include one count of obstruction of Congress, three counts of making false statements and two counts of perjury. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 30 years. Clemens is the second player to be indicted for perjury.
  • In leaked grand jury testimony, Bobby Estalella admitted to using undetectable BALCO drugs and HGH provided by Greg Anderson. Estalella was originally on the prosecution's witness list in the Bonds trial but was removed. He had been expected to testify his former teammate had admitted using performance-enhancing drugs.
  • In a 2002 Sports Illustrated interview, Ken Caminiti admitted to using steroids, beginning in 1996 while he was recovering from a shoulder injury. He was the first star to admit to steroid use. Caminiti estimated that half of players were using performance-enhancing drugs.
  • Brothers Jeremy and Jason Giambi testified before the grand jury, admitting to using undetectable BALCO drugs and injectable testosterone provided by Greg Anderson. Both said they were drawn to Anderson because of Bonds' success. Their testimony also was leaked.
  • Jose Canseco has admitted to experimenting with performance-enhancing drugs for years. In his first book,
  • Gary Sheffield testified before the grand jury that he had used the undetectable BALCO steroids and some
  • John Rocker received two prescriptions for Somatropin in 2003 from Applied Pharmacy Services. The Mobile, Ala., pharmacy had been raided as part of a grand jury investigation into the sale of drugs, including steroids and growth hormones over the Internet. Rocker admitted that he had used HGH but denied receiving drugs from the pharmacy.
  • During congressional hearings in 2005, Mark McGwire refused to
  • In 2009, the New York Times reported Sammy Sosa was among the 104 players to test positive for a performance-enhancing drug during MLB's 2003 anonymous survey testing. Lawyers with knowledge of the results did not know which drug Sosa tested postive for, but if it was a banned substance, he, too, could face perjury charges. In 2005, he testified before a congressional committee that he
  • Manny Ramirez tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance and, instead of serving a 100-game suspension for a second violation of MLB's drug policy, chose to retire. Ramirez sat out 50 games ban in 2009 after testing positive for human chorionic gonadotropin, a banned female fertility drug often used to help mask steroid use. The New York Times also reported that he tested positive for performance-enhancing substances during MLB's anonymous survey testing in 2003.
  • Reports say Alex Rodriguez tested positive for an anabolic steroid and testosterone in 2003. He admitted using a
 

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