Game of Shadows Audiobook (Free)

The entire inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world ugly

For years, in the shadowy gets to of the world of sports, there were rumors that a few of our nation’s ideal athletes were using steroids, hgh, and other medications to run faster, leap higher, and hit harder. But simply because track superstars blazed their method to Olympic medals and sluggers brought fans back to baseball, sports officials, the media, and fans looked past the gossips and cheered on on the subject of Game of Shadows the sportsmen to ever-higher degrees of efficiency. Then, in Dec 2004, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams broke the story from the Bay Region Laboratory Co-Operative, a tiny nutritional supplement business that, according to sworn testimony, was supplying elite sportsmen with banned drugs. The stories stunned the nation and the exposés led to congressional hearings on baseball’s drug problems and a revived work to purge the U.S. Olympic movement of medication cheats.

Now, in GAME OF SHADOWS, Fainaru-Wada and Williams tell the complete story of BALCO and the investigation that has shaken the foundations from the sporting world. And at the center of the story is the biggest celebrity of them all, Barry Bonds, the muscle-bound MVP outfielder for the San Francisco Giants whose dubious late-career renaissance provides him intimidating Hank Aaron’s all-time house run record.

Shocking, revelatory, and riveting, GAME OF SHADOWS casts light into the shadows of American sports activities to reveal the dark truths at the heart of the overall game today.