OAKLAND, Calif. -- An attorney for Barry Bonds said he won't acknowledge that Bonds used steroids and neither will Bonds.

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The San Francisco Giants star testified a year ago before a grand jury that has indicted four people in an alleged steroid distribution ring. Some of his testimony has been printed by the San Francisco Chronicle.

One of those indicted is Bonds' friend and trainer, Greg Anderson. Bonds' Attorney Michael Rains said Anderson gave Bonds flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis in 2003, but that Anderson did not give Bonds anything illegal. Rains also said that even if substances Anderson gave Bonds were steroids, they were not banned by baseball at the time and that Bonds believed they were natural.

The attorney said the leak of grand jury testimony is an attempt to smear his client. Grand jury transcripts are sealed and the Chronicle hasn't said who showed them the documents.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported Saturday that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said that if Major League Baseball doesn't crack down on steroid use, he will seek a new law to impose drug testing on professional athletes.

With Congress threatening action, the newspaper also said that baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, in a conference call with team owners, said that baseball needs to enact a tougher steroid policy. He plans to have a new policy ready when baseball team owners meet in January.

In addition to the Bonds controversy, earlier this week the the San Francisco Chronicle reported New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi claimed in his grand jury testimony that he took a human growth hormone in 2003 and also used steroids for at least three seasons. The Chronicle reported that Giambi testified in December 2003 that he obtained several different steroids from Anderson.

According to the newspaper report, Bonds was confronted by federal prosecutors with documents that he used steroids and human growth hormones from 2001-2003. It was during the 2001 season that Bonds smashed the single- season home run mark with 73. During that three-year period, he belted 164 homers. Bonds has 703 career homers, 11 shy of Babe Ruth for second on the all- time list and 52 short of Hank Aaron's all-time mark.

This past February, Anderson was indicted on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to distribute steroids in relation to the BALCO case. His home was raided in September 2003 and federal investigators seized documents and suspected anabolic steroids. According to the Chronicle, court records show one of the documents showed Bonds was using banned drugs.

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In testimony cited by the Chronicle, two prosecutors presented Bonds with documents that detailed his use of undetectable steroids known as "the cream" and "the clear." In testimony reported in Thursday's newspaper, Giambi admitted to using the same substances, both of which are undetectable steroids. According to Friday's edition, Bonds was presented with documents dated from 2001-2003 that showed he also used human growth hormone (hGH), Depo- Testosterone, insulin and Clomid, which is a drug for female infertility and can be used to enhance the effect of testosterone.

According to the newspaper, prosecutors told the grand jury among the documents were a lab test result that could pin Bonds to steroid use and apparently schedules of drug usage with billing information.

The Chronicle reports Bonds said he had no knowledge of the drug calendars and other records that indicated he used performance-enhancing substances. In the transcript, Bonds said he never paid Anderson for steroids and "never knowingly used them." In the testimony Bonds said he paid Anderson $15,000 in 2003 for weight training.

The newspaper reports Bonds, now 40-years-old, said he started using the cream and the clear substances to battle arthritis around a time when his father, former major leaguer Bobby Bonds, passed away on Aug. 23, 2003.

Ueberroth: Steroid Users Are Cheaters

The head of the U.S. Olympic Committee told NBC he considers anyone who uses steroids a cheater.

And Peter Ueberroth said there's "no room on the podium anymore" for anybody who's going to cheat.

His comments come after the top executive of a nutritional supplements lab told ABC that he watched track star Marion Jones inject herself with human growth hormones.

However, Ueberroth said he doesn't know if baseball slugger Barry Bonds used the performance-enhancing drugs.

Ueberroth, who once served as baseball's commissioner, said if Bonds did he has tainted the records he has set and the sport itself.