"MLB makes statement with PED suspensions; Alex Rodriguez, 12 others suspended in MLB doping case" by John Powers | Globe Staff, August 06, 2013
Major League Baseball, determined to put an end to the doping era that has tarnished its last two decades, suspended Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez on Monday, along with a dozen other players, two of them starters for pennant contenders, for their connection to Biogenesis, a defunct Florida anti-aging clinic that allegedly supplied them with banned performance-enhancing drugs.
The punishments were the most sweeping since the Black Sox game-fixing scandal of 1919.
Rodriguez, the highest-paid performer in the sport’s history and the most prominent to be sanctioned for doping, was handed a 211-game suspension through the end of the 2014 season — a potentially career-ending punishment. He plans to appeal. The others were given 50-game bans, reportedly in exchange for agreeing not to contest them.
The suspensions generally were supported by the players’ peers, many of whom resent being linked to a sport in which exceptional performances routinely come under suspicion from the news media and the public....
That is not what comes under suspicion on this blog.
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They do.
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