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Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada co-authored the book ''Game of Shadows'' while they were reporters for the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. For their investigative work in the field of steroids, Williams and Fainaru-Wada were given the 2004 George Polk Award. In the course of their investigative research, Williams and Fainaru-Wada were the first to report that: *track star Marion Jones purportedly received illegal drugs from the steroid supplier BALCO *world record-holder Tim Montgomery testified before a federal grand jury that he had used steroids *baseball slugger Jason Giambi testified that he had used steroids On May 5, 2006, Fainaru-Wada and Williams were subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury about how they obtained leaked grand jury testimony. On May 31, the authors urged United States District Judge Martin Jenkins of San Francisco to excuse them from testifying. This appeal was supported by affidavits from ''Washington Post'' reporters Carl Bernstein and Mark Corallo, a former press secretary to former Attorney General John Ashcroft, but was denied on August 15, 2006.〔("Judge: Reporters must reveal sources in Bonds case" )〕 On Sept 21, 2006, the journalists were sentenced to 18 months in prison for contempt of court. The two have repeatedly stated that they would go to prison before revealing their sources. The two avoided jail time, however, when attorney Troy Ellerman pleaded guilty on Feb. 14, 2007, to leaking the information, lying to prosecutors, obstructing justice and disobeying a court order not to disclose grand jury information. The two reporters were awarded the 2007 Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism. Fainaru-Wada left the ''Chronicle'' in November 2007 to join ESPN. In August 2009, Williams left the ''Chronicle'' for California Watch, a new West Coast division of the Center for Investigative Reporting.〔(Joe Strupp, "Lance Williams to Write for CIR", ''Editor and Publisher'' (July 31, 2009) )〕 ==Quotes on Government Investigation== On August 21, 2006, in an interview with Forrest Wilkinson of RealGM, Lance Williams was quoted as saying, "We always thought there was a disconnect between the government's interest in steroid use. There's no question that the people who put the case (BALCO ) together bent over backwards to protect the users of the drugs, first they condoned their use of illegal drugs, then they excised all of their names from the court filings. It goes on to this day -- this attempt to protect these wealthy athletes." Fainaru-Wada also questioned the government's motives, "You have these high-profile athletes, multi-million dollar athletes in some cases, who were the users of the drugs and, wanting to clean up sports," he contended, "() probably () expose those people, and yet, all those athletes are protected and their names were hidden from public file, or retracted by using generic names such as 'A Major League Baseball player', 'an NFL player', those types of things."〔(Lance Williams: 'Government Bent Over Backwards To Protect Drug Users' ) 22nd August, 2006〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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