Game of shadows : Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the steroids scandal that rocked professional sports /

This audio has all the information anyone needs to understand doping, including the use of steroids, in track and field athletics and among professional U.S. athletes. This is a story of big ambitions, big egos, big bucks, and big sleaze, told in gym rat/locker room adult vernacular. San Francisco Chronicle reporters Fainaru-Wada and Williams pre-sent convincing evidence that doping is widespread among Olympic athletes and marquee players from major league baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL) and that BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative) was a major player in the development of undetectable steroids for performance enhancement. There are really very few "good guys" in this story: even the authors' employer was among the San Francisco-area newspapers that published secret grand jury testimony in order to expose steroid use in MLB. Also, it becomes obvious that kids die emulating their MLB and NFL heroes. To truly understand why Barry Bond's personal trainer, Greg Anderson, was recently imprisoned for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury, get this audio. Read by Scott Brick, Game of Shadows is highly recommended.-Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.