Yesterday the government filed a new indictment against Barry Bonds related to his 2003 testimony for the federal government’s doping investigation where he stated that he did not knowingly take performance-enhancing drugs. The original indictment included four felony perjury counts and one felony obstruction of justice charge. The new federal indictment increased the perjury counts to fourteen and still includes the one count of obstruction of justice for hindering the government’s doping investigation. The new charges address the same alleged lies but were pulled out individually to increase it to fourteen, which is making legal experts and analysts conclude that if Bonds is found guilty, the punishment will not be much more severe than the original federal indictment.
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YES THEY WILL!!! YES THEY ALREADY HAVE!!!

Here’s why:

1. Tiger Woods is the best golfer in the history of the sport.
2. Tiger Woods is the most dominant athlete in the world.
3. Tiger Woods will break Jack Nicklaus’ 18 majors record.
4. Tiger Woods does not sign autographs at signings so his autographs are rare.

Autographed Tiger Woods rookie cards have almost tripled in value in the last few years. Two or three years ago you could get a 2001 Sp Authentic Tiger Woods autographed Rookie card graded a PSA GEM MT 10 or BGS 9.5 Gem Mint on eBay for $2,000-$2,500. I distinctly remember seeing these cards on Buy It Now auctions for $2000. Now they are going for between $5,000-$6,000 on average. The card pictured above, which was graded a BGS Pristine 10 recently sold for $16,600 on eBay. There are only 6 BGS Pristine 10’s out of the 499 submitted to BGS for grading (1.2%). BGS does not often give out Pristine 10’s, thus this card is extremely rare and commanded a price that triples that of the current market price for a BGS 9.5 Gem Mint.
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