Bonds 'knew he was on drugs'
 
September 17, 2006

VICTOR Conte, the BALCO founder convicted in a steroid distribution scheme, is reported to have told an associate that baseball star Barry Bonds knew he was taking designer steroids.

Citing an unnamed source close to Conte speaking to ESPN managzine, an ESPN website report said Bonds took a major interest in the composition of the substances he used to bulk his frame and smash record numbers of home runs.

The source said Conte told him Bonds sought BALCO's services to "get jacked" and knew exactly what he was taking.

Bonds has denied knowingly taking steroids even though his trainer, Greg Anderson, joined Conte and two other men in being convicted in the BALCO steroid probe.