*UPDATE*: Apparently the Feds made a little typo when filing a report about Barry Bonds’ testing positive for steroids in 2001. ESPN reveals that Thursday’s legal filing was actually referring to a November 2000 drug test - a failed test that was already mentioned in the original perjury indictment.

Well, that’s government bureaucracy for you. (Thanks to SbBer unclebandit for the heads up.)

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REUTERS has breaking news that Barry Bonds had failed a steroids test in 2001 - only a month after setting the single-season home run record.

Federal prosecutors made the allegations in a legal filing on Thursday, saying Barry’s good buddies at BALCO helped the slugger hit 73 homers that season.

As written in the filing:

“At trial, the government’s evidence will show that Bonds received steroids from (Greg) Anderson in the period before the November 2001 positive drug test, and that evidence raises the inference that Anderson gave Bonds the steroids that caused him to test positive in November 2001.”

The filing was made after Bonds’ lawyers tried to get perjury charges against their client dropped. Bonds is accused of lying to a federal jury in 2003 about using performance-enhancing drugs.

Bonds’ legal team has no immediate comment, but says they will have their own response to the new accusations by next Thursday - just enough time to make something up.