Rays/MLB

BALCO reporters must give names

By TIMES WIRES
Published August 16, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge told two San Francisco Chronicle reporters they must comply with a subpoena and tell a grand jury who leaked them secret testimony of Barry Bonds and other athletes in the government's steroid probe.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White means Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada must appear before a grand jury investigating the leak unless a higher court blocks the ruling. The pair have said they would not testify and would go to jail rather than reveal their source or sources.

The reporters published a series of articles and a book based partly on transcripts of testimony by Bonds, Jason Giambi and others who testified in the grand jury investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. BALCO was exposed as a steroid ring that netted five convictions.

BRAVES: Andruw Jones was scratched from the lineup because of a left knee injury. The team said Jones has patellar tendinitis in his left knee and listed him as day to day.

METS: Pedro Martinez was examined in New York one day after a strained right calf forced him out of his start against Philadelphia following the worst first inning of his career. "He said he felt sore, but he didn't seem alarmed by it," manager Willie Randolph said. "I'm not concerned at all. It's nothing to get excited about."

YANKEES: The team can break ground today for its new ballpark next to Yankee Stadium after a state judge struck down an environmental challenge to the construction, saying trees don't have legal protection.

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