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2B – Daily News – Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Feds say lost recording of Bonds’ doctor reappears SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors in the federal case against Barry Bonds say a key witness has rediscovered the tape of a secretly recorded 15-minute con- versation with the slug- ger’s doctor, sparking a fight between the govern- ment and defense lawyers over whether the new material can be included at a trial years in the mak- ing. On a day when there was no testimony because a juror was ill, the gov- ernment said Monday that former Bonds busi- ness partner Steve Hoskins found a cassette recording of his conversa- tion with Dr. Arthur Ting. Prosecutors, hoping to counter Ting’s testimony last week that he never discussed Bonds’ alleged steroid use with Hoskins — who insisted they had — said both men might be recalled to the witness stand. ‘‘Mostly, I could hear Mr. Hoskins. I could hear very little of what Dr. Ting said,’’ U.S. District Judge Susan Illston told lawyers late Monday. She added that that from what she could discern, the new recording was ‘‘almost entirely inadmis- sible or irrelevant.’’ The trial began March 21, and prosecutors had planned to rest their case Monday with Dr. Don Catlin, former head of the UCLA Olympic Analyti- cal Laboratory. But they now plan to call three lab workers, raising the gov- ernment’s witness total to 25. That, plus the new GIANTS (Continued from page 1B) just means a lot to do it that day and know that I’m going to have peo- ple there watching me that are supporting me no matter what.’’ Forget any kind of a routine before his first start with the Padres, though. ‘‘I’ve got kids. I don’t really have a routine anymore,’’ he said. Harang is looking to bounce back after strug- gling the last three years, including going 6-7 with a 5.32 ERA in 2010, when he was both- ered by back spasms. Black recalls Harang smiling when told of Tuesday’s assignment. ‘‘But then the smile sort of went away real quick because still, ultimately, you know what your job is, and that’s to perform and pitch well. But I’m happy for him.’’ Black said it made sense for Harang to pitch Tuesday. ‘‘I know that opening days are filled with a lot of emotion,’’ Black said. ‘‘A lot of players can handle it differently. I know that Aaron has pitched opening days MLS WESTERN CONFERENCE WL T Pts GF GA Colorado 3 0 0 9 8 2 Galaxy 2 1 1 7 4 5 Salt Lake 2 0 0 6 5 1 Vancouver 1 1 1 4 7 6 QUAKES 11 1 4 4 3 Seattle 0 2 2 2 3 5 Chivas USA 0 2 1 1 3 5 Portland 0 2 1 1 2 6 FC Dallas 0 2 1 1 1 5 EASTERN CONFERENCE WL T Pts GF GA Philadelphia 2 1 0 6 2 1 N. England 1 0 2 5 4 3 New York 1 0 2 5 2 1 Chicago 1 0 1 4 4 3 Kansas City 1 1 1 4 8 8 Toronto FC 1 1 1 4 5 5 Columbus 1 1 1 4 3 3 D.C. 1 2 0 3 5 7 Houston 0 1 2 2 2 3 ————————————————— Saturday’s results San Jose 2, Seattle FC 2, tie Los Angeles 1, Philadelphia 0 New England 1, Portland 1, tie New York 1, Houston 1, tie Toronto FC 1, Chivas USA 1, tie Vancouver 3, Sporting Kansas City 3, tie Sunday’s result Colorado 4, D.C. United 1 evidence, makes it likely the case won’t go to the jury before next week. Hoskins, the govern- ment’s second witness, testified he recorded a conversation with Ting discussing Bonds and steroids in 2003 or 2004, after federal agents raided the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO). BALCO was found to be the center of a steroids distribution ring, of which Bonds’ personal trainer was a part. Ting testified last week that he had only one, general conversation with Hoskins about steroids and he denied Hoskins’ testimony that the two had as many as 50 discussions about Bonds and performance-enhanc- ing drugs. Assistant U.S. Attor- ney Matthew Parrella said federal agent Jeff Novitzky picked up the recording from Hoskins’ house at 10 p.m. Sunday night but that Hoskins did not know whether the Olympus recorder he turned over at the same time was the machine used to tape the conversa- tion. Novitzky then made a digital recording of the tape, which the govern- ment said was originally made at Ting’s office in Fremont. The tape and recorder are being taken to the office of a defense expert on Tuesday morning. While preliminary tran- scripts of the recording were made by the prose- cution and the defense, they were not released Monday. before when he was with Cincinnati, so it’s new to him to pitch in a game that’s filled with pageantry and fanfare and high emotion.’’ Seeing the Giants again surely will remind the Padres of how close they came to a playoff spot last year. Although they over- achieved by winning 90 games, the Padres fal- tered down the stretch and were eliminated from playoff contention with a loss at San Fran- cisco on the season’s last day. ‘‘It was a great pen- nant race,’’ Black said. ‘‘It was a great, exciting season. There’s a part of me that thinks that them getting through us at the end set them up for that run in October. We don’t know if it could have been us. But we can play with them. We proved it. We played with them all through the year. They beat us at the end and continued on that MLB West Division Texas American League WL Pct GB Seattle 2 2 .500 2 A’s Angels 1 3 .250 3 East Division WL Pct GB Baltimore 4 0 1.000— New York 3 1 .750 1 Toronto 2 1 .667 1.5 Boston 0 3 .000 3.5 Tampa Bay 0 3 .000 3.5 Central Division WL Pct GB Kansas City 3 1 .750 — Chicago 2 1 .667 .5 Cleveland 1 2 .333 1.5 Detroit 1 3 .250 2 Minnesota 1 3 .250 2 ————————————————— Monday’s results Baltimore 5, Detroit 1 New York 4, Minnesota 3 Texas 6, Seattle 4 Today’s games Oakland (Braden 0-0) at Toronto (J.Reyes 0-0),4:07 p.m.,CSNC Los Angeles (Weaver 1-0) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 0-0), 3:40 p.m. Boston (Beckett 0-0) at Cleveland (Tomlin 0-0), 4:05 p.m. Minnesota (Duensing 0-0) at New York (Sabathia 0-0), 4:05 p.m., MLBN Seattle (Pineda 0-0) at Texas (Ogando 0-0), 5:05 p.m. Chicago (Floyd 0-0) at Kansas City (Hochevar 0-1), 5:10 p.m. Wednesday’s games Oakland at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Los Angeles at Tampa Bay, 10:10 a.m. Seattle at Texas, 11:05 a.m. Chicago at Kansas City, 11:10 a.m. Boston at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m. Detroit at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Minnesota at New York, 4:05 p.m. 4 0 1.000— 12 .333 2.5 Illston said the con- tents of the tape were not very substantive, and that ‘‘almost all of this is peo- ple’s comments being dri- ven by what is said to be newspaper articles and news reports’’ from around the time of the BALCO raid. ‘‘This will never come said into evidence,’’ Bonds’ lead lawyer, Allen Ruby. Parrella said the gov- ernment wanted to use the tape to establish a conversation about steroids happened, ‘‘not the accuracy of the state- ments within it.’’ Defense lawyer Cristi- na Arguedas said the recording had been sub- ject to a grand jury sub- poena in 2005 and ques- tioned why it hadn’t been turned over to the defense until now. Arguedas and prosecu- tors already were clash- ing over the prosecution’s failure to disclose notes of a 2006 interview with Ting, two days before his grand jury testimony. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nedrow main- tained last week the meet- ing wasn’t substantive, but the defense gave the court a statement from Matthew Jacobs, a former lawyer for Ting, stating the session ‘‘was substan- tive and lasted approxi- mately three hours.’’ Illston wanted to know ‘‘why a report wasn’t generated?’’ Nedrow maintained it would be duplicative to take notes of meetings prior to testi- mony. Bonds, baseball’s sea- momentum into the playoffs and into the World Series. It just goes to show what can happen in a playoff situ- ation.’’ The Padres went 12-6 against the Giants last year. San Diego cruised to an NL-best 76-49 record on Aug. 25, good for a 6 1/2-game lead in the NL West. But the Padres lost their next 10 games to see their lead shrink to just one game, and then won only 14 more games the rest of the way. ‘‘They’re a very good team. They’re world champions,’’ Black said. ‘‘And like us, we’re not going to sneak up on anybody this year either, from what we did last year. But the Giants aren’t going to sneak up on anybody, either. They’ve got a good MLB West Division National League WL Pct GB Dodgers 3 1 .750 — Padres 2 1 .667 .5 Colorado 1 1 .500 1 Arizona 1 2 .333 1.5 GIANTS 13 .250 2 East Division WL Pct GB Philadelphia 3 0 1.000— Atlanta 3 1 .750 .5 New York 2 1 .667 1 Florida 1 2 .333 2 Washington 1 2 .333 2 Central Division WL Pct GB Cincinnati 3 0 1.000— Pittsburgh 3 1 .750 .5 Chicago 2 2 .500 1.5 St. Louis 1 3 .250 2.5 Houston 0 3 .000 3 Milwaukee 0 4 .000 3.5 ————————————————— Monday’s results Atlanta 2, Milwaukee 1 Chicago 4, Arizona 1 Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 3 Today’s games San Francisco (Bumgarner 0-0) at San Diego (Harang 0-0),3:35 p.m.,CSNB Arizona (Enright 0-0) at Chicago (Cashner 0-0), 11:20 a.m. New York (C.Young 0-0) at Philadelphia (Hamels 0-0), 4:05 p.m. Houston (Happ 0-0) at Cincinnati (Leake 0-0), 4:10 p.m. Washington (Marquis 0-0) at Florida (A.Sanchez 0-0), 4:10 p.m. Atlanta (D.Lowe 1-0) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 0-0), 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (J.McDonald 0-0) at St. Louis (McClellan 0-0), 5:15 p.m. Los Angeles (Kershaw 1-0) at Colorado (Chacin 0-0), 5:40 p.m. Wednesday’s games San Francisco at San Diego, 3:35 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 10:45 a.m. Arizona at Chicago, 11:20 a.m. Los Angeles at Colorado, 12:10 p.m. New York at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. Houston at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Washington at Florida, 4:10 p.m. Atlanta at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. son and career home run leader, is charged with four counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice for telling a grand jury in 2003 that he never knowingly used perfor- mance-enhancing drugs and received injections only from physicians. The eighth day of tes- timony was postponed because juror No. 66 — names won’t be revealed until the day after a ver- dict — was sick with kid- ney stones. The Antioch resident, age 60, is a father of four and former helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War who works as a data center engineer for Amazon.com. He had a doctor’s appointment Monday afternoon, and was given a prescription for Tylenol with codeine. ‘‘I think we just should be prepared to act swiftly if we need to excuse his presence,’’ Illston said. There are only two alternates, and the first alternate — juror No. 110 — is a woman who works part time at a restaurant. If the juror is replaced by the alternate, there would be nine women and three men on the panel. When the trial resumes Tuesday, Catlin and the lab workers will testify and portions of Bonds’ grand jury testimony will be read to the jury. Starting Wednesday, each juror will get a $10 raise to $50 a day for serving on the case. team.’’ The Padres won two of three in their opening series at St. Louis. The Giants, who counter Tuesday with lefty Madison Bumgarner, lost three of four against the Los Angeles Dodgers. ‘‘It’s not the way we want to start,’’ Giants manager Bruce Bochy said after a 7-5 loss on Sunday night. ‘‘The first couple of games we hurt ourselves and easily could have come away with a couple more wins if we played better ball. I knew this wasn’t going to be an easy part of the schedule. Hopefully we’ll get back on track.’’ Note: This is just a two-game series. The probable starters Wednesday are Tim Lincecum against Tim Stauffer. NASCAR Sprint Cut Points Leaders 1. Kyle Busch 2. Carl Edwards 5. Kevin Harvick 219 214 3. Jimmie Johnson 207 4. Kurt Busch 205 204 6. Ryan Newman 203 7. Juan Pablo Montoya 201 8. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 199 9. Matt Kenseth 10. Mark Martin 11. Tony Stewart 12. Jeff Gordon 13. Paul Menard 195 181 180 170 170 14. A J Allmendinger 168 15. Kasey Kahne 163 16. Clint Bowyer 17. Martin Truex Jr. 151 18. David Ragan 19. Denny Hamlin 145 20. Greg Biffle 158 147 142 21. Bobby Labonte 138 22. Marcos Ambrose 136 23. Jamie McMurray 135 24. Brian Vickers 25. Brad Keselowski 132 26. David Reutimann 129 27. Joey Logano 28. Jeff Burton 29. David Gilliland 112 30. Regan Smith 31. Robby Gordon 90 32. Bill Elliott 33. Casey Mears 34. Dave Blaney 35. Tony Raines 36. Andy Lally 37. Ken Schrader 38. Terry Labonte 39. J.J.Yeley 75 72 71 61 33 30 23 40. Michael McDowell 21 41. Dennis Setzer 6 42. Michael Waltrip 4 43. Brian Keselowski 3 Upcoming Schedule April 9 — Samsung Mobile 500, Fort Worth, Texas April 17 — Aaron’s 499, Talladega, Ala. April 30 — Crown Royal Presents The Matthew & Daniel Hansen 400, Rich- mond, Va. May 7 — Showtime Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. 105 82 132 124 123 NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division WL OT Pts GF GA x-San Jose 46 23 9 101 234 201 Kings 45 27 6 96 213 185 Phoenix 42 25 12 96 224 217 Ducks 44 30 5 93 228 231 Dallas 39 28 11 89 214 224 Central Division WL OT Pts GF GA y-Detroit 46 23 10 102 255 231 Nashville 42 26 11 95 209 188 Chicago 42 28 8 92 246 214 St. Louis 36 33 10 82 232 229 Columbus 34 32 13 81 210 246 Northwest Division WL OT Pts GF GA z-Vancouver 52 18 9 113 254 181 Calgary 40 29 11 91 242 233 Minnesota 37 34 8 82 198 224 Colorado 29 41 8 66 218 275 Edmonton 24 43 11 59 186 256 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division WL OT Pts GF GA x-Philadelphia 46 22 11 103 247 210 x-Pittsburgh 46 25 8 100 225 192 N.Y.Rangers 43 32 5 91 228 193 New Jersey 36 37 5 77 163 196 N.Y.Islanders 30 37 12 72 220 250 Northeast Division WL OT Pts GF GA y-Boston 44 24 11 99 238 189 Montreal 42 30 7 91 208 204 Buffalo 40 29 10 90 232 220 Toronto 37 32 10 84 213 240 Ottawa 30 39 10 70 183 243 Southeast Division WL OT Pts GF GA x-Washington 46 22 11 103 216 192 x-Tampa Bay 44 24 11 99 235 232 Carolina 38 30 11 87 225 232 Atlanta 33 33 12 78 214 252 Florida 29 38 12 70 190 220 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference ————————————————— Monday’s results Los Angeles at San Jose, late N.Y. Rangers 5, Boston 3 Today’s games Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 4 p.m. Washington at Toronto, 4 p.m. Chicago at Montreal, 4:30 p.m. New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m., VS Philadelphia at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m. Atlanta at Nashville, 5 p.m. Colorado at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Columbus at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Vancouver at Edmonton, 6 p.m. NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division WL Pct GB y-Lakers 55 21 .724 — Phoenix 37 39 .487 18 WARRIORS 33 44 .429 22.5 Clippers 30 47 .390 25.5 KINGS 22 54 .289 33 Southwest Division WL Pct GB y-San Antonio58 19 .753 — x-Dallas 53 24 .688 5 Memphis 44 33 .571 14 New Orleans44 33 .571 14 Houston 41 36 .532 17 Northwest Division WL Pct GB x-Okla. City 50 26 .658 — x-Denver 47 29 .618 3 Portland 45 32 .584 5.5 Utah 36 41 .468 14.5 Minnesota 17 60 .221 33.5 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division WL Pct GB y-Boston 53 23 .697 — x-Philadelphia 40 37 .519 13.5 x-New York 38 38 .500 15 New Jersey 23 53 .303 30 Toronto 21 55 .276 32 Southeast Division WL Pct GB y-Miami 54 23 .701 — x-Orlando 48 29 .623 6 x-Atlanta 44 33 .571 10 Charlotte 32 44 .421 21.5 Washington 20 56 .263 33.5 Central Division WL Pct GB y-Chicago 56 20 .737 — Indiana 35 43 .449 22 Milwaukee 31 45 .408 25 Detroit 26 50 .342 30 Cleveland 15 61 .197 41 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division ————————————————— Monday’s results No games scheduled Today’s games Sacramento at Houston,5:30 p.m.,CSNC Golden State at Portland,7 p.m.,CSNB Charlotte at Cleveland, 4 p.m., NBATV Detroit at Washington, 4 p.m. Milwaukee at Orlando, 4 p.m. Minnesota at New Jersey, 4 p.m. San Antonio at Atlanta, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston, 4:30 p.m. Toronto at New York, 4:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 5 p.m. Phoenix at Chicago, 5 p.m. Oklahoma City at Denver, 6 p.m. Utah at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m., NBATV UCONN (Continued from page 1B) the ball inside and insist- ing on the kind of defense that UConn played during this remarkable run, but which often got over- shadowed by Walker’s theatrics. ‘‘The halftime speech was rather interesting,’’ Calhoun said. ‘‘The adjustment was we were going to out-will them and outwork them.’’ Connecticut outscored Butler by an amazing 26- 2 in the paint. The Bull- dogs (28-10), in their second straight title game and hoping to put the closing chapter on the ultimate ‘‘Hoosiers’’ story, went a mind-numb- ing 13 minutes, 26 sec- onds in the second half making only one field goal. During that time, a 25- 19 lead turned into a 41- 28 deficit. This for a team that never trailed Duke by more than six during last year’s epic final. That time, Gordon Hayward’s desperation halfcourt heave bounced off the backboard and rim, barely missing. This time, UConn was cele- brating before the buzzer sounded, Calhoun pump- ing his fists and hugging an assistant while the Huskies ran to the side- line and soaked in the confetti. The version of ‘‘Hoosiers’’ with the happy ending is still available on DVD. UConn, meanwhile, gets the real celebration. Joining Walker in dou- ble figures were Jeremy Lamb with 12 points, including six during UConn’s pullaway run, and Alex Oriakhi with 11 points and 11 rebounds. Just as impressive were the stats UConn piled up on defense. Four steals and 10 blocks, including four each by Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith, and a total clamp- down of Butler’s biggest stars, Matt Howard and Shelvin Mack. Howard went 1 for 13 and Mack went 4 for 15. Butler’s 41 points were 10 points fewer than WOMEN NCAA National Semifinals At at Conseco Fieldhouse Indianapolis Sunday’s results Texas A&M 63, Stanford 62 Notre Dame 72, Connecticut 63 National Championship Today - ESPN Texas A&M vs. Notre Dame, 5:30 p.m. the worst showing in the shot-clock era in a cham- pionship game. (Michi- gan scored 51 in a loss to Duke in 1992), and the 18.8 percent shooting broke a record that had stood since 1941. It’s been a rough year for the Huskies and their coaching lifer, whose season was tarnished by an NCAA investigation that found Calhoun failed to create an atmosphere of compliance in the pro- gram. He admitted he wasn’t perfect and has begrudgingly accepted the three-game suspen- sion he’ll have to serve when the Big East regu- lar season starts next year. Then again, given this performance, it’s clear UConn does its best work when it’s all-or-nothing, one-and-done. Counting three wins at the Maui Invitational, Connecticut finished 14- 0 in tournament games this year — including an unprecedented five-wins- in-five-nights success at the Big East tournament, then six games — two each week — in the one that really counts, one of the most unpredictable versions of March Mad- ness ever. It closed with 11th- seeded VCU in the Final Four and with eighth- seeded Butler joining the 1985 Villanova team as the highest seed to play in a championship game. Villanova won that game by taking the air out of the ball and upset- ting Georgetown. Butler tried to do it in a most un-Butler way — by running a little and jacking up 3s. Didn’t work, and when the Bulldogs tried later to make baskets in the paint, it really looked like there was a lid there. During their dry spell, Howard, Garrett Butcher and Andrew Smith all missed open shots from under the bucket. It just wasn’t their day. GOLF World Golf Ranking 1. Martin Kaymer GER 7.91 2. Lee Westwood ENG 7.43 3. Phil Mickelson USA 6.75 4. Luke Donald 5. Graeme McDowell NIR 6. Paul Casey 7. Tiger Woods ENG 6.59 6.11 ENG 5.65 USA 5.64 8. Steve Stricker USA 5.45 9. Rory McIlroy NIR 5.45 10. Matt Kuchar USA 5.30 11. Dustin Johnson USA 5.03 12. Jim Furyk 13. Ernie Els USA 4.94 SAF 4.66 14. Nick Watney USA 4.60 15. Francesco Molinari ITA 4.41 16. Ian Poulter ENG 4.38 17. Bubba Watson USA 4.30 18. Hunter Mahan USA 4.25 19. Retief Goosen SAF 4.09 20. Robert Karlsson SWE 4.02