Colts, Manning agree to $99.2 million, 7-year deal\nINDIANAPOLIS -- Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts agreed Tuesday to a $99.2 million, seven-year contract that includes an NFL-record $34.5 million signing bonus.\nThe deal will drop the NFL co-MVP's salary cap number to $8.3 million, saving the team more than $10 million and giving the Colts more flexibility to sign players when the free-agency period opens Wednesday.\n"There was a lot of pressure because we're getting close to the Super Bowl," team owner Jim Irsay said. "If you don't get it done, we're going in a dramatically different direction, and our chances are reduced."\nTwo days after the Colts (14-5) lost to the Patriots in the AFC championship game, Irsay promised to make Manning the highest-paid player in NFL history.\nManning's entire bonus is guaranteed, and he can earn another $19 million in roster bonuses.\n"We wanted to get this done sooner," the owner said. "But Peyton is a great player and he deserves it."\nBy agreeing to a deal before March 17, the Colts can remove the exclusive franchise tag they put on Manning last week. If they had to keep the tag on Manning, it would have cost the Colts a league-record $18.4 million against next year's salary cap of $80.6 million.\nLast week, team president Bill Polian set a Monday deadline for finishing Manning's deal, saying the Colts would otherwise face major roster changes.\nTuesday morning, the two sides agreed to the deal.\n"Free agency is constrained by what we do with Peyton," Polian said last week. "If he plays under the tag, we're out of the free-agent market."
Report: Investigators said Bonds, Giambi, Sheffield received steroids \nSAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds received steroids and human growth hormones from a nutritional supplements lab implicated in a steroid-distribution ring, according to information given to federal investigators, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.\nInvestigators were also told New York Yankees stars Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, plus three other major leaguers and one NFL player, were given steroids, the newspaper reported.\nBonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, gave the players the drugs from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, according to information given to the government and shared with the newspaper.\nThe report did not say how federal investigators received the information or how the newspaper learned of it.\nBonds, Giambi and Sheffield have denied using steroids. All testified last year before the grand jury that indicted Anderson and three others in the alleged steroid-distribution ring.\nBonds refused to comment Tuesday at the Giants' spring training camp in Scottsdale, Ariz., softly telling a reporter, "Get out of my locker." The Giants said they would not comment on the report.\nBonds' attorney, Michael Rains, told the Chronicle, "We continue to adamantly deny that Barry was provided, furnished or supplied any of those substances at any time by Greg Anderson"
