Ryan Braun now linked to Miami PED clinic

Steak Snabler · Jan 29, 2013

So much for cleaning up the sport ...

Open the neat spreadsheet and scroll past the listing of local developers, prominent attorneys, and personal trainers. You'll find a lengthy list of nicknames: Mostro, Al Capone, El Cacique, Samurai, Yukon, Mohamad, Felix Cat, and D.R.

Then check out the main column, where their real names flash like an all-star roster of professional athletes with Miami ties: San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera, Oakland A's hurler Bartolo Colón, pro tennis player Wayne Odesnik, budding Cuban superstar boxer Yuriorkis Gamboa, and Texas Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz. There's even the New York Yankees' $275 million man himself, Alex Rodriguez, who has sworn he stopped juicing a decade ago.

Read further and you'll find more than a dozen other baseball pros, from former University of Miami ace Cesar Carrillo to Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal to Washington Nationals star Gio Gonzalez. Notable coaches are there too, including UM baseball conditioning guru Jimmy Goins.

The names are all included in an extraordinary batch of records from Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic tucked into a two-story office building just a hard line drive's distance from the UM campus. They were given to New Times by an employee who worked at Biogenesis before it closed last month and its owner abruptly disappeared. The records are clear in describing the firm's real business: selling performance-enhancing drugs, from human growth hormone (HGH) to testosterone to anabolic steroids.
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http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2013-01-31/news/a-rod-and-doping-a-miami-clinic-supplies-drugs-to-sports-biggest-names/

TheSportsPredictor · Jan 29, 2013

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This is bigger than BALCO, no?

Bob Cook · Jan 29, 2013

Re: Miami New Times: A-Rod, Melky, Gio Gonzalez, others linked to PED clinic

Thus ends the "Steroid Era Is Over."

Dick Whitman · Jan 29, 2013

Re: Miami New Times: A-Rod, Melky, Gio Gonzalez, others linked to PED clinic

Awesome.

Key · Jan 29, 2013

Re: Miami New Times: A-Rod, Melky, Gio Gonzalez, others linked to PED clinic

I only read the first page of the link, but no football players linked to this? You've got a boxer and a tennis player but no football players. No basketball players, either. Seems strange.

Dick Whitman · Jan 29, 2013

Re: Miami New Times: A-Rod, Melky, Gio Gonzalez, others linked to PED clinic

No golfers, either, right?

cranberry · Jan 29, 2013

Re: Miami New Times: A-Rod, Melky, Gio Gonzalez, others linked to PED clinic

Bob Cook said:

Thus ends the "Steroid Era Is Over."
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Someone of authority actually said this or Strawman to signal Outrage in the Media?

LongTimeListener · Jan 29, 2013

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TheSportsPredictor said:

This is bigger than BALCO, no?
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No.

It will be interesting to see the public reaction to this one. I'm with cran -- I think it will be a media issue but not much of one among fans.

Dick Whitman · Jan 29, 2013

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cranberry said:

Bob Cook said:

Thus ends the "Steroid Era Is Over."
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Someone of authority actually said this or Strawman to signal Outrage in the Media?
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I think Gammons has said it, right?

Dick Whitman · Jan 29, 2013

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LongTimeListener said:

TheSportsPredictor said:

This is bigger than BALCO, no?
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No.

It will be interesting to see the public reaction to this one. I'm with cran -- I think it will be a media issue but not much of one among fans.
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I don't think that fans care that much.

But you know who does? International fans and sports governing bodies.

I think the U.S., particularly fans, is moving toward more acceptance of PEDs as part of sports now. And maybe they should be, if they can be used safely. But interntionally, doping remains an enormous deal. At some point I guess we have to decide if the international community is correct in its stance, and, if not, whether we care to go against it.

cranberry · Jan 29, 2013

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Key said:

I only read the first page of the link, but no football players linked to this? You've got a boxer and a tennis player but no football players. No basketball players, either. Seems strange.
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There are hundreds of anti-aging clinics under protection from the pharmaceutical lobby. As the story mentions.

Last year, U.S. sales of HGH topped $1.4 billion, the AP found — more than drug companies made off penicillin or prescription allergy meds. This despite the fact that endocrinologists estimate fewer than 45,000 people in the nation actually suffer from FDA-approved maladies for the drug. The reason is simple: The feds have stopped prosecuting anti-aging clinics, and many people believe the drug is a fountain of youth despite a lack of medical evidence and warnings it might lead to cancerous growths and diabetes.
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Wealthy 50-plus men love this stuff way more than athletes.

cranberry · Jan 29, 2013

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Dick Whitman said:

cranberry said:

Bob Cook said:

Thus ends the "Steroid Era Is Over."
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Someone of authority actually said this or Strawman to signal Outrage in the Media?
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I think Gammons has said it, right?
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I like Peter but I haven't read or heard him say it nor would I consider him an authoritative voice on anything of this nature. Because he isn't.

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