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).

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, …

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, …

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 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, …

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.

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), …

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.

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, …

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.

Steven Roy Howe (March 10 1958 - April 28 2006) was an American left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees. Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Howe was a two-time All-Big Ten selection at the University of Michigan. He made his Major League debut at the age of 22 in 1980 and would eventually become the National League Rookie of the Year that year, …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, …

Andreea Mădălina Răducan is a gymnast from Bârlad, Romania. She competed in artistic gymnastics at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, winning gold in the team event and silver on the vault.

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.

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.

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, …

Johann Mühlegg is a German-born top level cross-country skier who has competed in international competitions first representing Germany and then Spain, after becoming a Spanish citizen in 1999. He was excluded and disqualified from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City due to doping. Mühlegg participated for Germany in the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics, though he began having trouble with the country's ski federation in 1993.

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.

Carlton Dotson is a former American college basketball player who is currently serving a 35-year prison term for murdering Patrick Dennehy, one of his teammates.

Willie McKay is a Scottish football agent based in Monaco. He is the agent of many top-level footballers, mainly based in England and France - specifically the Premier League. Some of his clients include Joey Barton, Henri Camara, Scott Brown, Jean-Joël Perrier-Doumbé, Tyrone Mears and Pascal Chimbonda.

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

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".

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

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, …

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.

John A. Spano, Jr. (born May 31, 1964) is a businessman and swindler who briefly bought control of the NHL's New York Islanders before it emerged that he was a fraud.

Jean-Jacques Eydelie (born 3 February 1966) is a French former footballer most noted for his role in the Marseille match-fixing scandal of 1993. A midfielder, Eydelie began his career with Nantes, before joining Marseille in 1992. His first season at Marseille was a success, with the club finishing top of the league, and winning the Champions League, but shortly after the match (in which Eydelie appeared as a substitute), …

John R.P. Gordon is a former Scottish football referee. Gordon was selected to officiate at the 1978 FIFA World Cup but was suspended later that year by the Scottish FA for improper behaviour. He, along with assistants Rollo Kyle and David McCartney, admitted to receiving gifts from A.C. Milan prior to handling their 1978 UEFA Cup clash with Levski Sofia. The Italians won the match Gordon refereed, the home leg of a second round tie, 3-0.

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