Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24 1964 in Riverside, California) is a Major League Baseball player with the San Francisco Giants. He is the son of former Major League All-Star Bobby Bonds, cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, and the godson of Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Bonds holds the single season major league records for home runs (73), on base percentage (.609), slugging percentage (.863), and walks (232).

Marion Jones (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American athlete of half Belizean and half African American descent. She is the winner of five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She holds dual citizenship from the USA and Belize (her mother's home country).

Jason Gilbert Giambi (born January 8, 1971) is a Major League Baseball Player and designated hitter for the New York Yankees. He was the American League MVP in 2000 with the Oakland Athletics, and is a 5-time All-Star who has led the American League in walks 4 times, in on base percentage 3 times, in doubles and in slugging percentage once each, and won the Silver Slugger award twice. He attended Long Beach State.

Samuel "Sammy" Peralta Sosa is a right fielder for the Texas Rangers of the American League. His Major League career began when he broke in with the Texas Rangers in 1989. In the intervening years, he has played for the Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles. He ended the 2005 season with 588 career home runs, placing him fifth on the all-time home run list. Sosa sat out the 2006 season; in early 2007, however, …

George Michael Steinbrenner III (born July 4, 1930 in Rocky River, Ohio), often known as "The Boss", is an American businessman and the principal owner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries have made him one of the sport's more controversial figures, …

Victor Conte is the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), a controversial sports nutrition center in Burlingame, California, which the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) says developed the banned steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) with the help of bodybuilding chemist Patrick Arnold. Pursuant to a plea bargain struck with prosecutors, …

Rafael Palmeiro Corrales (born September 24, 1964 in Havana, Cuba) is a Major League Baseball player with a career spanning 20 years, 1986 to 2005. Though technically not retired, Palmeiro has not played since 2005. Palmeiro was an All-American at Mississippi State University before being drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1985. His major league debut came on September 8, 1986 with the Cubs. He played three seasons with the Cubs (1986-1988), …

George Howard Brett (born May 15, 1953 in Glen Dale, West Virginia) is a former Major League Baseball player for the Kansas City Royals. He is considered one of the greatest third basemen in Major League Baseball history.

Danny Almonte Rojas (born April 7 1987 in Moca, Dominican Republic) is a former Little League baseball pitcher, the subject of a media circus in 2001. Considered a phenomenon as he led his Bronx, New York team into the playoffs, Almonte was revealed to have actually been born in 1987 instead of 1989, two years too old to play Little League baseball, even as his team, the Rolando Paulino All Stars, won third place in the Little League World Series.

John Loy Rocker (born October 17 1974) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played 3 1/2 seasons with the Atlanta Braves. He is a native of Macon, Georgia. John is single and currently resides in Atlanta.

Clem Smith Haskins (born August 11, 1943 in Campbellsville, Kentucky) is a former professional basketball player who later served 13 years (1986-1999) as head coach of the University of Minnesota's men's basketball team. The son of sharecroppers, Haskins was a star at Taylor County High School in rural Kentucky. He wanted to play for Adolph Rupp at the University of Kentucky, but Rupp ignored him, allegedly because Haskins was black, …

George O'Leary (born August 17, 1946 in Central Islip, New York) is the head football coach for the University of Central Florida. Before that, he served as the head coach at Georgia Tech and was briefly an assistant coach for the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL.

Gene Francis Haas (born November, 1952) is founder, president, and sole stockholder of Haas Automation (one of the world's leading CNC machine tool manufacturers). Additionally, he is the owner of a NASCAR team; Haas CNC Racing.

Jason Alan Grimsley (born August 7, 1967 in Cleveland, Texas) was best known as a professional relief pitcher. He made his Major League Baseball debut on September 8, 1989 and pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Anaheim Angels, New York Yankees, Kansas City Royals, Baltimore Orioles, and most recently, the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Mike Price (born 1946) is an American football coach, currently the head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He formerly coached at Washington State University, Weber State University, and the University of Alabama, where he was fired before coaching a game.

Dr Eufemiano Fuentes, is a Spanish sports doctor. He is best known because he is at the centre of the Operación Puerto doping case. He was arrested in May 2006 together with the hematologist Merino Batres.<sup&gt;</sup> The scandal that grew from the arrests implicated well-known cyclists and include former Tour de France favorites Jan Ullrich, Ivan Basso, Francisco Mancebo and large parts of the Comunitat Valenciana and former Liberty Seguros cycling squads.

Bobby Estalella [es-tah-LAY-yah], born Robert M. Estalella on August 23, 1974 in Hialeah, Florida, is a Major League Baseball catcher. He should not be confused with his grandfather, also named Bobby Estalella, an outfielder who played in the majors between 1935 and 1949. In nine seasons, Estalella has played for the Philadelphia Phillies (1996-99), San Francisco Giants (2000-01), New York Yankees (2001), Colorado Rockies (2002-03), …

Wayne Carey (born May 27, 1971), is regarded as one of the greatest Australian rules football players of all time. His nicknames include "The King", or "Duck" due to his walking style, caused by one leg being longer than the other. Carey grew up in Wagga Wagga, a city in southern New South Wales regarded as the frontier dividing "Aussie rules" territory with that of rugby league. Carey played for North Adelaide in the SANFL, …

Hal Clay Mumme (b. March 29, 1952 in San Antonio, Texas) is the current head football coach at New Mexico State University.

Trevis Smith (born September 8, 1976) was a professional football linebacker who played seven years with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Smith was formerly a linebacker for the University of Alabama. On October 28th, 2005 he was charged with aggravated sexual assault in Surrey, BC for knowingly exposing a women to the HIV virus by having unprotected sex with them and not revealing his condition.

Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookie. He was born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos in Steubenville, Ohio.

Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE (born 4 October, 1931) is a retired cricketer. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, he was classified as 'coloured' under the apartheid regime, and hence barred from first-class cricket. He captained South Africa's national non-white cricket team, and also played football for the non-white national side. With the support of John Arlott, he emigrated to England in 1960, where he played first in the Central Lancashire League, for Middleton, …

Shane Hmiel (born May 15, 1980 in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina) is a former NASCAR driver who drove the #32 WinFuel / TrimSpa Chevrolet for Braun Racing until he was banned for life after failing a third drug test. He is the son of NASCAR crew chief Steve Hmiel.

Carlos "Panama" Lewis is a well-known and highly controversial boxing trainer who achieved his greatest notoriety in the 1980s. Lewis was a trainer for several highly-rated boxers in the early 1980s, the most noted of which was light-welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. The most notorious incident in Lewis's career took place on June 16, 1983. A fighter he was training, Luis Resto, was fighting the favored Billy Collins, Jr. Before the fight, …

Albert Means was a high school football star and later a college football player. Means became well known because of the rulebreaking that surrounded his recruitment by college programs. Means was a standout defensive tackle at Trezevant High School in Memphis, Tennessee. As a high school senior in 1999-2000 he was Tennessee's Mr. Football, a high school All American and was one of the most highly regarded football players in the nation.

Sally Robbins (born July 15 1981) is an Australian rower, who was a member of Australia's 2004 Summer Olympics Women's Eight Rowing crew. In the final the team were well-placed for Bronze when 500 meters from the finish, she appeared to collapse and laid back on teammate Julia Wilson's lap. Robbins was publicly humiliated in the Australian media as "Lay-down Sally" and called "un-Australian".

James "Jim" Farry is the former Chief Executive of the Scottish Football Association. He was sacked in 1999 for Gross Misconduct after deliberately delaying Celtic footballer Jorge Cadete's registration. Fergus McCann, acting in his capacity as Celtic Managing Director, complained to the SFA that Jim Farry had wilfully delayed the registration of Jorge Cadete, leaving him unable to play for Celtic during a run of vital matches.

Tates Locke is an American professional basketball coach. Locke coached the Buffalo Braves for half a season in 1976-77, before being replaced by Bob MacKinnon. Prior to his Buffalo experience, Locke coached for West Point, where he hired a young assistant coach named Bobby Knight. Knight would later replace Locke when Locke left West Point. After West Point, Locke moved onto Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Fatemeh Karimkhani (a.k.a. Angela Harkness, born in 1976, in Tehran, Iran) is a convicted scam artist. Her biggest scheme was the infamous Angela's Motorsports NASCAR team in 2003. Angela Harkness was sentenced to 40 months in prison on May 25, 2007.

Larry Krueger is a sports radio talk show host. He currently hosts Sports Overnight America on the Sports Byline USA Network with Chris Townsend.