Major League Baseball’s all-time home run leader is facing serious legal trouble.
Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants has been indicted on federal “perjury and obstruction of justice charges.” The charges are the result of a four-year investigation into whether or not Bonds lied under oath to a grand jury.
ESPN has pre-empted Pardon the Interruption to cover the Bonds indictment. The network is using two of its newest acquisitions to cover the story. ESPN had Mark Fainaru-Wada, the former San Francisco Chronicle writer who is also one of the writers of the Bonds book Game of Shadows, on as a guest during a special edition of SportsCenter. ESPNews, meanwhile, had TJ Quinn, formerly of the New York Daily News, on in an interview with anchor David Lloyd. Both Fainaru-Wada and Quinn were credited as ESPN investigative reporters. Just this week, ESPN hired Fainaru-Wada and Quinn to join ESPN’s investigative team.
Both were scheduled to begin working at ESPN on November 26.
Of the cable networks currently covering the Bonds indictment, FOX News Channel is far and away the leader; CNN and MSNBC are staying with coverage of the Democratic Debate tonight in Las Vegas. FNC, while not devoting blanket coverage to the situation, has touched on it several times during the past half-hour.
