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		What to expect in Bell and Hoskins testimonies By Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin November 23, 2007

	Barry Bonds ex-girlfriend Kimberly Bell's testimony in 2005, in front of the grand jury panel will be just the tip of the iceberg as Bell told the panel, that during her relationship with the ex-Giant, said that he told her that he used steroids. She once took Bonds to an Emergency Room because Bonds had injected his scrotum with HGH and his scrotum inflated to the size of a coke can. Doctors had to drain fluid from Bonds who had to play Game Five of the World Series the next day in 2002, as Bonds’ trainer Greg Anderson told this to his old cellmate Marlon Leftwich. Leftwich revealed this information in a interview he did with SF Weekly, on what Anderson told him about Bonds. Anderson was released from jail the same day of the Bonds indictment on November 15th. Bell who posed nude this month for Playboy and did an interview is scheduled to testify for the prosecution in the Bonds BALCO/steroids trial starting December 7th. Meanwhile Bonds ex-business manager Steve Hoskins also has been named to testify in the trial. Hoskins was responsible for screening Bonds media requests for interviews when Hoskins worked for Bonds. Hoskins when Bonds manager turned down dozens of members of the media for interview requests including Sportstalk radio. Hoskins was fired eventually by Bonds ending their friendship when Bonds reported Hoskins to the FBI for forging his signatures on memorabilia contracts and selling fake signatures with Bonds name on it at memorabilia shows. Bonds accused Hoskins of stealing from him. The Feds turned it around and did not prosecute Hoskins for fraud and Hoskins said he would be willing to testify against Bonds. Bonds had told him that he was using steroids to get that edge in the game. Hoskins also had said that Bonds told him "the dumb fans would never know the difference sign them all like me" regarding the memorabilia when the two worked together Bonds attorney Michael Rains says that Bell and Hoskins are out on an ax grinding mission and that he will demonstrate that both are hell bent on revenge. Hoskins because Bonds fired him and called the FBI on him and Bell who was trying to get hush money out of Bonds regarding her knowledge of his steroid use and the amounts of cash Bonds was giving Bell. Bell mentioned that Bonds once told her that he was envious of Mark McGwire who had set the season home run record in 2000 breaking Roger Maris' old record of 61 and setting the mark at 70. Bell said after that Babo was on a mission and increased his steroid dosage and in 2001 hit a record 73 home runs breaking McGwire's record the next season. The Government although they never put tax evasion in the indictment charges against Bonds, is expected to present tax evasion charges at trial as Bell also disclosed that she received $80,000 cash unreported from Hoskins who got it from Bonds. The money was to go towards the house in Arizona that Bonds helped her buy before 2003. The Bonds trial is scheduled to begin on December 7th and Hoskins and Bell are scheduled to testify at trial shortly after the trial begins. The case looks like it's headed for live TV. Court TV has said that they are close to getting the Federal Court's permission to televise the trial on live TV. Bonds attorney Rains said he is trying to stop the telecast that it would not allow his client to get a fair trial due to all the publicity. Marion Jones update: Friday it was reported that the price tag of returning all the medals and money that track runner Marion Jones earned since September 2000. Jones who earned two gold , two bronze, and one silver medals and $700,000. Jones has reportedly returned the medals to the Olympic commission but says she's broke and can not return the $700,000. Jones was suspended by the IAAF until October 7, 2009. At that time Jones can file for re-reinstatement and then she would have to wait until one year later for approval. It's very unlikely that Jones will return as she has emphasized that she is retired from track. Jones’ records has been removed from all Olympic records. Jones had admitted using the clear and was immediately suspended by the Olympic commission. Moreover IAAF President Lamaine Dick called Jones, "one of the biggest frauds in sporting history." Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin co-host Sportstalk on 1690 KFSG Sacramento. quote source: sportingnewsradio.com