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	Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) is a controversial sports nutrition center in Burlingame, California, USA.
		It has also been alleged that BALCO was responsible for the first production of the designer drug THG.
		The investigation involved charges of drug distribution directed to BALCO's founder Victor Conte, vice president James Valente, trainer Greg Anderson and track coach Remi Korchemny.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Bay_Area_Laboratory_Co-operative (207 words)

	CBC Sports: More revelations in doping scandal to come
		Victor Conte, founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative.
		Conte is the owner of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) in Oakland.
		Conte and others involved with the BALCO were arrested after the September, 2003 raid by U.S. federal authorities.
	www.cbc.ca /story/sports/national/2004/10/05/Sports/balco041005.html (488 words)

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		Once an obscure laboratory in Burlingame, it seemed that in an instant the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative — commonly known as BALCO — was thrust into the eye of the steroids-in-sports storm, sucking up the reputations of sports stars like a gigantic twister.
		While the players from BALCO admitted in court that they gave steroids to athletes, no names were mentioned.
		And you had his co-stars, BALCO vice president James Valente and Greg Anderson, longtime friend and trainer for Bonds.
	www.insidebayarea.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2888573 (652 words)

	Benito Santiago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2003, Santiago was named by FBI investigators as one of the athletes alleged to have received anabolic steroids, via the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative.
		In 2004, Santiago, again a free agent, signed with the Kansas City Royals and had his season cut short after sustaining injuries that sent him to the disabled list.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benito_Santiago (539 words)

	MISC-Athletes-Steroids, 7th Writethru Bgt
		Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative founder Victor Conte arrives at a Federal Courthouse in San Francisco, Friday.
		Conte, who founded the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, was charged with conspiring to distribute performance-enhancing drugs to more than 30 unidentified baseball, football and track and field stars.
		BALCO vice president James Valente pleaded guilty to one count of distributing illegal steroids and is expected to receive two years' probation.
	www.cp.org /premium/Online/Member/Sports/050715/s0715149A.html (1060 words)

	BBC SPORT Athletics Man at the heart of the THG scandal
		Victor Conte is founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (Balco), the San Francisco-based company which the United States Anti-Doping Agency says developed the banned steroid THG (tetrahydrogestrinone).
		Balco's offices in Burlingame, California, have been raided by officials from the US Anti-Doping Agency, the Internal Revenue Service, the Food and Drug Administration and the San Mateo County narcotics taskforce.
		ZMA is an acronym drawn from the zinc and magnesium included in one of Balco's nutritional supplements.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/3207793.stm (538 words)

	ABC News: BALCO Founder May Face Additional Charges
		BALCO founder Victor Conte and Valente dropped their challenge last week, contesting the legality of the police raid of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
		Those new counts are not expected to be levied against the other three defendants Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative vice president James Valente, Barry Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, or track coach Remi Korchemny.
		SAN FRANCISCO Jun 7, 2005 (AP)— BALCO founder Victor Conte could face additional charges in connection to the Bay Area sports doping ring, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
	abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=828799&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (425 words)

	Bonds denies track star's testimony
		Conte is a former San Francisco Bay Area rock musician, who played guitar in local bands such as Oakland's Tower of Power.
		BALCO was a blood-testing lab that analyzed the blood of professional athletes to give them advice on how to enhance performances.
		It has been previously reported, though, that Conte has been trying to plea-bargain with the U.S. Justice Dept. and has even sent a letter to President Bush, seeking his intervention in creating a plea-bargaining arrangement in return for testimony about the athletes he treated.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/content/printer_friendly/mlb/y2004/m06/d24/c779131.jsp (715 words)

	BALCO Boss and Bonds' Trainer Sentenced to Prison - Sports
		Conte, who created the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative and was the chief distributor of the drugs, was sentenced to four months in prison and four months of house arrest last Tuesday after negotiating a plea bargain with federal prosecutors.
		BALCO founder Victor Conte along with Greg Anderson, trainer for San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds, were sentenced to prison for their part in a scandal to distribute undetectable performance enhancing drugs to pro athletes last week.
		In addition, Vice President of BALCO, James Valente was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of steroid distribution.
	www.thehilltoponline.com /news/2005/10/26/Sports/Balco.Boss.And.Bonds.Trainer.Sentenced.To.Prison-1033992.shtml (675 words)

	ESPN.com: GEN - Several Raiders subpoenaed in THG probe
		The company at the center of the investigation is the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO, which was raided by the Internal Revenue Service and local drug agents in September.
		Running back Tyrone Wheatley also said he was subpoenaed in the case involving the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO.
		An attorney for BALCO founder Victor Conte has confirmed his client is the target of the grand jury probe.
	espn.go.com /gen/news/2003/1021/1643138.html (1532 words)

	Victor Conte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victor Conte is the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), a controversial sports nutrition center in California, which the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) says developed the banned steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG).
		After entering guilty pleas in July 2005 to one count of conspiracy to distribute steroids and a second count of laundering a portion of a check, he was sentenced in October to spend four months in prison and another four on house arrest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Conte (248 words)

	Athletes reportedly subpoenaed
		VICTOR CONTE, WHOSE Burlingame-based Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative was raided in early September by agents of the Internal Revenue Service and a San Mateo County narcotics task force, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press he was told by athletes that 40 of them have been called to testify starting next week.
		BALCO analyzes blood and urine from athletes, then prescribes a regimen of supplements to compensate for various vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
		The founder of a laboratory that provides nutritional supplements to some of America’s top sports stars said Friday that dozens of Olympic and professional athletes have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury probing the lab.
	www.msnbc.com /news/981352.asp?0cv=CB10 (566 words)

	CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports: BALCO Defendants To Begin Prison, Chemist In Court
		Patrick Arnold, 39, of Champaign, Ill., is accused of conspiring with Victor Conte, founder of Burlingame’s Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative or BALCO, to give illegal performance-enhancing steroids to professional athletes.
		CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports: BALCO Defendants To Begin Prison, Chemist In Court
		BALCO Defendants To Begin Prison, Chemist In Court
	cbs5.com /topstories/local_story_334150605.html (258 words)

	Drugs in Sport: News Archive December 2004
		The lawyer for the triple Olympic champion Marion Jones has challenged the founder of the Balco laboratory, Victor Conte, to take a lie detector test after he said he had seen her taking performance-enhancing drugs [Independent, UK]
		In one corner of California, prosecutors in the Balco investigation are trying to blow the lid off the biggest steroids scandal in US history.
		With a few hours to go before Athens was due to welcome the Olympic Games back home after an absence of 108 years organising officials were getting frantic: the star of the show Kostas Kederis had still not shown up and urgent telephone calls were being made in an effort to track him down.
	www.drugsinsport.net /archives/archive-dec04.htm (1167 words)

	storydownload.asp?ID=17073
		The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO, of San Francisco is under investigation for its role in the distribution of a previously undetectable performance-enhancing drug called THG.
		The only reason sports officials are now aware of THG is because a track and field coach anonymously sent a syringe full of the substance to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
		Dozens of athletes will testify before a grand jury about their knowledge of BALCO and THG, including baseball sluggers Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi.
	www.bpnews.net /storydownload.asp?ID=17073 (552 words)

	deseretnews.com Sports briefs
		HEARING POSTPONED: A federal judge postponed a hearing on Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative founder Victor Conte's allegations that federal agents illegally searched his office and wrongly obtained statements from him and another executive.
		Conte is accused of steroid-conspiracy charges for allegedly distributing illegal steroids that eventually made their way to as many as 30 baseball, football and track and field stars.
		Also indicted last year were Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds' weight trainer; James Valente, BALCO vice president; and Remy Korechemny, a track coach.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600116490,00.html (528 words)

	SportingNews.com Fantasy Source - Baseball : BALCO steroids case continues Friday
		The rickety wooden "Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative" sign in front also has been covered with white paint.
		Since their indictments Feb. 12, the men -- BALCO founder Victor Conte, BALCO vice president James Valente, track coach Remi Korchemny and Greg Anderson, the personal trainer for San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds -- have tried to maintain a low profile.
		All four defendants in the BALCO case have pleaded innocent to the charges included in the 42-count indictment, and have been free pending Friday's bail hearing -- at which they will have to prove they can post bond.
	fantasy.sportingnews.com /baseball/articles/20040227/527544.html (515 words)

	Jamaica Talk - Jamaican Forums - Doping scandal in athletics
		Conte, founder of the California-based Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, which is facing federal charges for distributing steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs to athletes, says he supplied Jones with a variety of illegal drugs from August 2000 through September 2001.
		The founder of BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative) says that he gave Marion Jones performance enhancing drugs.
		He claims to have supplied her with a substance called "the clear," EPO, human growth hormone, and insulin.
	www.everytingjamaican.com /jamaicatalk/showthread.php?p=85031#post85031 (2158 words)

	Baseball players' tests show steroid use / Dozens of positives to bring continued checks, new penalties
		The news of baseball's steroid-testing plans comes amid an international doping scandal involving a nutritional supplement laboratory in Burlingame, Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), which listed Giants slugger Barry Bonds as a client.
		BALCO is considered a source of the previously undetectable steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), which will be newly included on the list of banned steroids for which players will be tested next season.
		Conte is not related to Victor Conte, BALCO's owner.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/14/MNG0V31U7Q1.DTL (1220 words)

	Report: Athletes received steroids
		Conte is the founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the supplements firm at the center of the steroids scandal, as well as a sister company -- Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning, or SNAC -- that markets the legal zinc-magnesium supplement ZMA.
		The San Francisco Chronicle reported Conte, who faces federal charges for his alleged distribution of steroids to pro athletes, told federal investigators that Jones and Montgomery received the drugs in exchange for endorsements of his ZMA nutritional supplement.
		Conte and the other three men indicted in the BALCO case have pleaded innocent.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/content/printer_friendly/mlb/y2004/m04/d25/c729417.jsp (368 words)

	ABC Sport - Athletics - Jones's lawyer asks USADA for her testimony in BALCO affair
		A lawyer representing Marion Jones has urged the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) to obtain her testimony given in front of a federal grand jury in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) doping affair.
		Jones has been linked to the BALCO steroid distribution scandal and the previously undetectable steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) but has continually denied she has taken improper drugs.
		In return Conte, who is one of four men connected with BALCO charged with distributing illegal performance enhancing drugs including THG, would avoid jail time.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200406/s1133455.htm (460 words)

	Giambis, Sheffield, Robbins appear before BALCO grand jury - CBS SportsLine.com
		An appearance before the grand jury, or being subpoenaed to testify, does not mean an athlete is a target of the investigation -- which is focusing on possible drug and tax violations by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
		Romanowski and Robbins were among four Raiders notified by the NFL last month that they failed tests for THG, a source close to the investigation has told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
		The only two people identified so far as targets of the federal grand jury are BALCO founder Victor Conte and Greg Anderson, a personal trainer for Bonds and other athletes.
	www.sportsline.com /general/story/6914910 (624 words)

	New York Daily News - Yankees - Sheff used steroid
		Gary Sheffield admitted to unwittingly using steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative in testimony before a federal grand jury last year, according to a report in the Oct. 11 issue of Sports Illustrated, which hits newsstands tomorrow.
		After training with Bonds and using BALCO supplements, including legal vitamins, Sheffield struggled in 2002, hitting 25 homers with 84 RBI, his lowest total in either category over the last six years.
		Sheffield told the magazine that he was shocked that the infamous "cream," which he believed was "like a cortisone to heal" his surgically repaired knee, was actually a designer steroid from BALCO.
	www.nydailynews.com /sports/baseball/yankees/story/238863p-204986c.html (299 words)

	printstory.asp?ID=68598
		The newspaper's report Thursday includes direct quotes from Montgomery's testimony to the federal grand jury that investigated the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
		SAN FRANCISCO - Tim Montgomery testified last year that he used human growth hormone and an undetectable steroid, and that the man at the center of a Bay Area steroid scandal told him he supplied Barry Bonds with performance-enhancing drugs, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
		Montgomery, Michelle Collins, Alvin Harrison and Chryste Gaines have been accused by USADA of steroid use.
	www.katu.com /printstory.asp?ID=68598 (722 words)

	Tetrahydrogestrinone - TheBestLinks.com - THG, Anabolic steroid, United States Anti-Doping Agency, Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, ...
		The USADA identified the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, an American nutritional supplement company, as the source of THG.
		The same coach subsequently provided the USADA with a syringe containing THG, which the USADA then used to develop a test for the substance.
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	www.thebestlinks.com /THG.html (158 words)

	Scientists find new designer steroid
		The founder and owner of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, who allegedly distributed the first designer anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone or THG, had claimed a new drug was already in production.
		DMT appears to be a new generation of steroid from THG, the muscle-building compound discovered in 2003 that sparked a federal inquiry in the United States into the Balco Laboratory, the suspected source of the drug.
		Wada and professor Christiane Ayotte, the head of the Wada-accredited laboratory in Montreal, worked with Canadian customs scientists who had seized it at the border with the United States last July to determine that it was a new form of performance-enhancing steroid.
	www.ergogenics.org /dmt.html (1486 words)

	KTVU.com - Balco - Chambers Loses Medal; Two U.S. Athletes Suspended
		Anderson and the three other men charged with distributing steroids such as THG to top athletes -- Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative founder Victor Conte, BALCO vice president James Valente and track coach Remi Korchemny -- all have pleaded innocent.
		Chambers claims he got the steroid from nutritional supplements provided by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
		Meanwhile, two U.S. hammer throwers who also tested positive last summer for THG had their appeals rejected by the international track and field governing body and were suspended from worldwide competition for two years.
	www.ktvu.com /balco/3252254/detail.html (676 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Drugs in sport - World's fastest couple face drugs ban despite no positive test
		IT has become crystal clear this week that the story of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) and its role in the supply and administration of illegal drugs to some of the world’s top athletes has some considerable distance to run.
		The athletes being targeted by USADA are all linked to BALCO, and some of the main evidence is from laboratory owner Victor Conte, one of four men indicted on charges of supplying banned drugs to athletes.
		Jones and Montgomery, the world’s fastest couple, are the highest profile athletes implicated in the BALCO scandal, and Jones has been the most vociferous in protesting her innocence.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1041&id=615162004 (1117 words)

	CBS News BALCO Founder Gets Eight Months October 18, 2005 20:30:05
		Conte started the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, which court records show counted dozens of prominent athletes among its clients, including major league baseball's Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi, and Olympic track champion Marion Jones.
		Last month, the authorities raided a laboratory in Champaign, Ill., headed by Patrick Arnold, who's known for introducing the steroid precursor androstenedione to the U.S. Andro came to public attention in 1998 when St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire said he used it when breaking baseball's home run record.
		James Valente, BALCO's vice president, was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to reduced charges of steroid distribution.
	www.cbsnews.com /track/rss/stories/2005/10/18/sportsline/main952939.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=U.S._952939 (436 words)

	NBC11.com - News - Conte Goes To Bat For Barry Bonds
		Victor Conte, president of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO, spoke outside a federal courtroom in San Francisco after a hearing on a case in which Conte and three other men are accused of providing illegal steroids to professional athletes.
		Conte was indicted by a federal grand jury in February along with laboratory Vice President James Valente, track coach Remi Korchemny, and personal trainer Greg Anderson, whose clients include Bonds.
		SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- The owner of a Burlingame nutritional laboratory emphatically denied Friday that he ever gave illegal anabolic steroids or performance-enhancing drugs to San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds.
	www.nbc11.com /news/3462571/detail.html (459 words)

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