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Bonds appears before grand jury over steroids BY ROB GLOSTER THE ASSOCIATED DRESS SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds appeared before a grand jury focusing on possible tax and drug violations by a California lab that supplied nutritional supple ments to some of the nation’s top athletes. The six-time National League MVP entered the grand jury room Thursday accompanied by attor •ney Mike Rains. Bonds ha£ attributed his mus cular development over the years to intense weight training, prop er diet and a regimen of nutri tional supplements. He repeated ly has denied using steroids and argues that his evolution as a home-run hitter has been steady. Grand jurors were now able to ask the San Francisco Giants’ slugger under oath whether his growth has been entirely natural. The panel is looking into possible violations by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BAL CO. Athletes who already have ap peared before the grand jury in clude track star Marion Jones and her boyfriend, 100-meter world record-holder Tim Montgomery, four Oakland Raiders and Olympic champion swimmer Amy Van Dyken. An appearance before the grand jury, or being subpoenaed to tes tify, does not mean an athlete is a target of the probe. Two people have been named so far as targets of the grand jury — BALCO founder Victor Conte and Greg Anderson, Bonds’ per sonal trainer. Bonds, 39, became a BALCO client just before his record-set ting 2001 season and has praised Conte for giving him a personal ized nutritional program. Anderson’s home was raided by the Internal Revenue Service and a drug task force Sept. 5, two days after a similar raid at BALCO. Bonds weighed 185 pounds as a rookie in 1986 and now is a mus cle-bound 230. He holds the season record for home runs and is gain ing on Hank Aaron’s career mark. “Go look at the back of my bub blegum card,” he said after win ning a third-straight MVP award last month. “My numbers are con sistent.” Except for 1989, Bonds has hit at least 24 homers in each of his 17 full seasons. The only dramatic jump came in 2001, when his record 73 homers marked the only time he topped 50. On the other hand, four of Bonds’ five biggest homer totals came in the last four seasons — all after his 35th birthday. Bonds has praised Conte for giving him a personalized nutri tional program. Bonds posed with Conte and Anderson for this past June’s issue of Muscle & Fitness magazine and heaped praise on both. “I visit BALCO every three to six months. They check my blood to make sure my levels are where they should be. Maybe I need'to eat more broccoli than I normally do. Maybe my zinc and magne sium intakes need to increase,” Bonds told the magazine. “Victor will call me to make sure I’m taking my supplements, and my trainer Greg will sit near my locker and stare at me if I don’t begin working out right away. I have these guys pushing me.” Bonds brought Anderson, a childhood friend, on a major league tour of Japan after the 2002 season, when the trainer met play ers such as Jason Giambi — who also has been subpoenaed to testi fy before the grand jury. Anderson’s attorney. Bill Rapoport, said computer files and other things “that were not paper” were among items taken in the raid. But Rapoport said he does not know specifically what was taken and said Anderson’s only connection to BALCO was when he purchased vitamins from Conte to give to athletes he trained. Tournament CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 comeback . from the Thunderbirds. On average, Southern Utah has entered half time a few points down but has an improved offense and defense in the second half. Tennessee State (0-3) will face off against tournament host New • Mexico (4-1) in the other game in the shoot-out, with the victor play ing the winner of the USC Southem Utah game for the cham pionship, while the losers of the two games will play in a consola tion game. TSU, which has never played USC, has had a slow start this sea son, losing games to Wright State, Birmingham Southern and UNC Asheville: TSU’s first-year head coach, Sharon Allen, previously was in volved in the SEC as an assistant coach with Mississippi State, helping to lead the Bulldogs to their best record in school histo ry. The New Mexico Lobos have en joyed a better early season, beat ing Southern Cal, Cal State Fullerton, Youngstown State and Texas Southern while only losing to Villanova. The Lobos haven’t been impressive offensively this season, scoring less than 60 points “Honestly, I didn’t even know that tonight’s game gave me 100 wins at South Carolina.” SUSAN WALVIUS use HEAD COACH in three of their five games. Forward Lindsay Arndt, an Albuquerque native, leads the team in scoring with just 12.2 points per game, but also leads the team with 7.6 rebounds per game. USC and Southern Utah tip off at The Pit at 10 p.m. on Saturday. Carolina will play either Tennessee State or New Mexico on Sunday before heading to North Carolina to play Charlotte on Dec. 14. The Gamecocks play another five games during the break but only have one home game, a Dec. 18 matchup with Louisiana Lafayette. Carolina will play North Carolina at Myrtle Beach on Dec. 20, at Seton Hall On Dec. 30 and at Minnesota on Jan. 3 and will open SEC play at Alabama on Jan. 11. The Minnesota game will be nationally broadcast on CBS. The first game of the spring semester will be against national power Tennessee at 7 p.m. on Jan. 15. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Chemistry CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 no one’s seen since the days of Larry Davis, Melvin Watson and B.J. Mckie. So, if you’re going to be in town at anytime over Christmas break, take the time to watch this team. N.C. State is scheduled to • come to town on Dec. 20 and will bring with it a host of talented players. Julius Hodge is about as versa tile as they come, and Scooter Sherrill is an offensive machine. It’ll be a good test for Carolina and a chance to witness one of the ACC’s best, something that can’t be said about Clemson. The annual war with Florida will unfortunately take place be fore classes are set to come back, but don’t let that deter you from coming back early to pull against the hated Gators. And when school gets going in the spring, there’ll be a full slate of SEC home games that will in clude Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama. What this Gamecock team is not showing that other teams in the past have is the ability to play to its competition. This team is beating all the programs that it should, so it might have a chance at stiffer competition when the SEC season rolls around. Finally, I want to commend Odom on the way he’s handled this team so far. Being a part of the media, I’ve had the chance to be behind the scenes and see the chemistry of this young team. While they still have a long way Powe,| to go, players such as Boynton and Powell are proving their worth in more ways than a stat book can show. Tarence Kinsey is becoming a scoring talent, and the younger players are finding a way to fit it. If Odom can find ways to get these guys to believe in im provement, the SEC Tournament might not be the only postseason the Gamecocks experience. I’m not saying a trip to the NCAAs is in the future, but for a team selected last in the SEC in the preseason, anything above that is a step in.the right direc tion. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com IN THE TIME IT TAKES TO FIND THE CAMPUS BOOKSTORE you COULD SAVE UP TO 15% ON CAR INSURANCE. Low down-payment & convenient payment plans. Round-the-clock claim service. GEICO CALL OR VISIT US FOR A FREE RATE QUOTE. 7402 B Garners Ferry Road (1 mile' past VA to Sumter Behind Rushs) 803-783-1551 Gowwwt (iKfityttt (nswoftcf Co. • 5CIC9 Sewtot insurance Co. * SltCO indemnity Co. • SCK3 Csiuolty Co, * Cotemai County Kutuol int. Co, &ctca, wost»n|too. oc mu s ho< saco BRIEFLY Summers and White receive recognition USC running back Demetris Summers and offensive lineman Chris White were named to The •Sporting News’ SEC All Freshman Team on Thursday. Summers rushed for 638 yards this season, including back-to-back performances against the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Tennessee. In the UAB game, Summers ran for 161 yards and three touchdowns, and he put 158 yards on the Volunteers the next week. In addition to his carries, Summers had 12 receptions this year for 146 yards and two touch downs. The Lexington native also ended the season with 920 all-purpose yards. White missed the 2002 season ^^vith a neck injury, but came back this season to play in all 12 games and started in the final six games. Tanner named USA Coach of the Year USC head baseball coach Ray Tanner was named the 2003 USA Baseball Coach of the Year on Wednesday by USA Baseball and the United States Olympic Committee. Tanner was head coach of the 2003 USA Baseball National Team, which compiled a 27-2 record this year and won the sil ver medal at the 2003 Pan-Am Games in the Dominican Republic. The National Team had its ^Rest winning percentage in the history of the team while under Tanner. Team USA started the year on a 25-0 tear, sweeping a five-game series with Japan in the process. Texas pitcher Huston Street was named 2003 USA Baseball Athlete of the Year after post ing a 0.00 ERA in 14 games and a 3-2 extra-inning win over Mexico. Under Tanner, Carolina base ball has spent the past four years with the second-highest winning percentage of .any school in the nation. The Gamecocks will start the 2004 season Feb. 7 at Wofford and will have their home open er Feb. 13 against Charleston Southern. USC’s Kite to tee off with dad in tourney USC golfer David Kite will tee off this weekend with his father and PGA Tour golfer, Tom Kite, in the annual Office Depot Father/Son Challenge in Champions Gate, Fla. This will mark the fifth straight time the father and son duo has played in the tourna ment, placing eighth out of 19 teams last year. 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