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Ryan Braun's Season Ending Suspension Is A Monumental Day For The Game Of Baseball

By Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Contributor

Major League Baseball has just announced that Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers has been suspended for the remainder of the 2013 season as a result of its investigation into Biogenesis and performance enhancing substances. In a story that has intrigued the sports industry for the past seven months, it was finally determined that Braun has violated the Basic Agreement and the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. As his suspension begins immediately, everyone’s attention will now turn towards names such as Alex Rodriguez, Nelson Cruz, Bartolo Colon, Melky Cabrera and others who have been associated with Anthony Bosch and his now defunct anti-aging clinic in South Florida. …read more

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America De Cali, Colombian Soccer Team, Removed From U.S. Treasury’s SDN List

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds have got nothing on Colombia’s America de Cali soccer team.

EPO and human growth hormones are child’s play compared to the Cali squad, which has been on the United State’s list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List) since 1999, after the U.S. claimed the team was under the ownership of Cali drug cartel leaders Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela.

While Toronto Blue Jays’ outfielder Melky Cabrera’s suspension and redemption only lasted 50 games, America de Cali had to wait 14 seasons for their chance, as the U.S. Treasury Department finally removed Wednesday the team from SDN list.

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