Tag Archives: Miami New Times

Gio says recent tests have come back clean

Gio Gonzalez revealed that he took blood and urine tests two days after the Miami New Times linked him to Anthony Bosch, who reportedly supplied PEDs to professional athletes. Gonzalez says he received word from the Major League Baseball Players Association that the results from those tests were negatives. …read more
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Journalists and Performance-Enhancing Substances

By Karl Shmavonian, Forbes Staff The sports world has been in a tizzy this week as Sports Illustrated alleged that earlier this year Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis used deer antler spray, which contains a growth hormone, to heal his torn triceps. In that same SI article golfer Vijay Singh admitted to also using the concoction. (Doesn’t deer antler spray sound like an aphrodisiac you’d buy online or in the back of a one-hand, laddie magazine?: “Buy Bambi and drive her wild!”) And in an article in the Miami New Times, Alex Rodriguez and others were accused of using performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in the past few years. It is important to note that these are just accusations at this point, nothing has been substantiated. All of this in the wake of the Lance Armstrong saga.
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Miami Clinic's Records Show A-Rod Is Still Juicing

By Kevin Spak It looks like Alex Rodriguez never got off the juice. The Yankees’ much-maligned slugger is one of a number of stars implicated in records from a Miami clinic called Biogenesis, the Miami New-Times reports. An employee passed the records to the paper last month, just before the firm closed and…
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MLB Stars Alex Rodriguez, Gio Gonzalez, Others Tied To New Steroid Ring

By Chris Smith, Forbes Staff A staggering story in the Miami New Times today reveals that baseball stars Alex Rodriguez, Gio Gonzalez, Nelson Cruz, Melky Cabrera and Bartolo Colon were clients of a Miami anti-aging clinic that distributed performance enhancing drugs like HGH and IGF-1, both of which are banned by MLB.
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