Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the ALCS, Oct. 13, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
New York Yankees Red Sox hit A-Rod with a pitch; homers later in game Fans react to war of words between A-Rod and the Yankees NEW YORK (AP) - The lawyer for Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez publicly called out the Yankees and Major League Baseball by accusing them improper conduct to ban Rodriguez and his large contract from baseball.
Joseph Tacopina, in an interview with The New York Times published online Saturday, levied a slew of allegations against Rodriguez’s team and league. Tacopina charged the Yankees’ treatment of Rodriguez’s left hip injury that required surgical repair in January and MLB investigators’ conduct in compiling the information for the 211-game suspension he is appealing.
Yankees President Randy Levine, who is the main target of Tacopina’s accusations, responded by challenging A-Rod’s lawyers to provide the truth about his performance-enhancing drug use and his connection to Canadian sports physician Anthony Galea.
Galea treated Rodriguez in 2009 and the Yankees only knew about A-Rod’s involvement with Galea after the physician got into trouble with law-enforcement officials.
Galea pleaded guilty last year to bringing unapproved drugs, including illegal performance enhancers, into the United States.
Galea is said to have visited Tiger’s Florida home four times, beginning in February 2009, and his treatment of the golf legend was a “platelet-rich plasma therapy” that had nothing to do with Human Growth Hormones (HGH), although the doctor, himself, used HGH for 10 years. Galea says he has never treated any athlete with HGH or Actovegin.
Several Major League Baseball Players have been linked to Biogenesis, a South Florida clinic, which reportedly supplied performance-enhancers to more than a half-dozen MLB stars. This past week, Porter Fischer, a former associate of Biogenesis head man Tony Bosch, said the number of athletes connected to the clinic actually numbers more than a hundred and includes athletes from MLB, NBA, NCAA, tennis, pro boxing and MMA. Our source tells us Tiger Woods is one of the athletes linked to the PED scandal. Tiger was reportedly supplied with testosterone creams, human growth hormone and steroids. “Tiger’s name is definitely on the list, but the PGA is not releasing which golfers were named” said the source.
It has been two weeks since a media report that Tiger Woods is on the Biogenesis list, and still Tim Finchem remains silent.
Golf fans are left to wonder if Finchem plans to put the yellow jersey on Tiger Woods as he pedals down the Champs-Élysées.
You can’t turn on Golf Channel for five minutes without hearing that the biggest story in golf is Tiger Woods trying to equal Jack Nicklaus’s 18 majors. Saturday night, before the PGA Championship had even ended, Golf Channel was already telling viewers that Tiger Woods had a real good chance to win a major at next year’s tournament sites.
Well, if that is the golf’s biggest story, don’t you think fans of the game and its history deserve to know if Woods is doping? Don’t you think that’s kind of a big deal?
It used to be said of Tiger Woods, “Breaking Jack’s record is a matter of when, not if.” Now we say that regarding a Woods’ admission of doping.
A-Rod has just been banned from Major League Baseball until the year after next. Lest you need reminding, he and Tiger Woods shared an unlicensed doctor, one Anthony Galea, who has since been convicted of sneaking banned PEDs into the United States.
A-Rod has been banned this time for his connections to a sleazy steroid shop in Miami called Biogenesis. Two weeks ago, Terez Owens cited a source who said Tiger Woods’ name is on the Biogenesis customer list.
The source tells us Woods took “testosterone creams, human growth horomone and steroids.” No one at Lanny H Golf takes anything stronger than aspirin and caffeine, so those terms sound like something out of medical school to us, but the testosterone cream did ring a bell.
In 2006, the Florida Times-Union printed this:
“There are many substances that would help someone recover from a workout and the grind of a 35-tournament season,” said Randy Meyer, director of fitness for Sea Island Resort. “Even baseball players aren’t really taking steroids and growth hormones to hit home runs. They were taking them to play day in and day out. They were taking them for the recovery.”
James would not reveal any names, but he said he knows of some PGA Tour players who use a low-dose testosterone cream to help recovery from muscle strain and fatigue. He said they are being used in amounts small enough that don’t enhance a player’s ability to hit the ball farther.
That’s just the testosterone cream. The source said Woods also received HGH and steroids.
Would Tim Finchem hide doping by Tiger Woods? What do you think? Remember Woods’ silly dog-and-pony show at the TPC Sawgrass after his sex scandal? That’s in Jacksonville, Florida. You know, where the PGA Tour is headquartered. Thanks loads, Timmy!
We already know Woods gets the Preferred Customer treatment on the PGA Tour. This past April at Augusta, Woods signed an incorrect scorecard — which has always meant immediate disqualification for any other PGA Tour pros — and, lo and behold, he got off with a mere 2-stroke penalty. I’m shocked!
That’s far from the worst example. Remember last year’s lost ball at Quail Hollow? That’s when we learned the penalty for a lost ball is a free drop. Well, that is, if you are Tiger Woods. (See Stephanie Wie’s great coverage of the incident.)
Is golf headed down the same path as baseball? Once upon a time, any given baseball game and the sport’s sense of history were inseparable. You might be sitting inside the Astrodome watching the Houston Astros play — indoor baseball? — yet still there was a sense of connection to Honus Wagner and Babe Ruth. Some may remember how baseball fans demanded an asterisk when Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record, as Maris did it in 162 games, not the 154 games played in Ruth’s era.
Now, though, do you even know who holds the single-season baseball HR record? I didn’t. I had to look it up. Whereas Maris broke Ruth’s record by a single home run — and we all knew the numbers 61 and 60 — Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds broke Maris’s mark by 9 and 12 home runs, respectively. Got juice?
Then there was the biggest record of them all, The Babe’s 714. Some of you of a certain age will remember the excitement of Hank Aaron’s assault on that magical number. He ultimately passed it and set the mark at 755. Aaron held the record for 33 years, until a ‘roided up Barry Bonds surpassed the mark. Now tell me: do Bonds’ magical home run numbers mean a damned thing to you? If so, you must be a scientist studying the effects of PEDs on athletic performance.
Some PGA Tour officials would cover for Woods, all the while telling themselves they are doing so for a greater good. Oh, but we raise so much money for charity. We mustn’t upset the apple cart. As if telling us the truth about Tiger Woods would cause widows and orphans to die. For the record, the tournament that raises the most money for charity has not seen Woods in almost ten years.
Finchem needs to disclose everything about Tiger Woods and Biogenesis. Major League Baseball is in court trying to get the full records from Porter Fischer, the former Biogenesis employee who absconded with the records. The PGA is doing nothing — other than keeping their eyes, ears, and mouths covered.
The charity of which Finchem is so proud comes from the pockets of corporate sponsors and fans. Corporate sponsors who market themselves as clean and aboveboard deserve better than a sport hiding scandals and lying to the public. And fans — those of us who fork over a fiver for a tournament beer, and do so with a smile, knowing the money goes to charity — deserve better.
Tim Finchem, I’m sure you have a fine, plush bed, but still I must ask: how do you sleep at night?
Brian Cashman's ex-mistress alleges Tacopina conflict of interest with Alex Rodriguez By Mark Sandritter @MarkSandritter on Aug 19 2013, 6:02p 6
The situation with Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees took yet another strange turn, this time involving GM Brian Cashman's former mistress.
lex Rodriguez's attorney Joseph Tacopina made headlines recently first, when he accused the Yankees of hiding MRI results, then for his appearance on the Today Show. As it turns out, Rodriguez isn't Tacopina's only tie to the Yankees. Tacopina's firm has ties to the former mistress of Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and she isn't happy about the possible conflict of interest.
Louise Meanwell, Cashman's former mistress, filed court documents claiming Tacopina should be forced to drop Rodriguez as a client, according to a report from the New York Daily News. Stephen Turano, one of the partners of Tacopina, Seigel & Turano represents Meanwell. That tie, according to the lawyer representing Meanwell in the documents filed on Monday, is enough for a conflict of interest.
In the court papers filed on Monday, Meanwell claims Cashman told her various Yankees were using steroids and was "ambivalent" to the use of performance-enhancing drugs by Yankee players. With that knowledge, Meanwell could become a witness in the legal confrontation between Rodriguez, the Yankees, and MLB, thus making for a possible conflict of interest.
To make the situation even more bizarre, Turano represents Meanwell through a separate law firm, one Tacopina is not associated with. "I have never spoken to Steven Turano about her," Tacopina said
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The lawyer for Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez publicly called out the Yankees and Major League Baseball by accusing them improper conduct to ban Rodriguez and his large contract from baseball.
Joseph Tacopina, in an interview with The New York Times published online Saturday, levied a slew of allegations against Rodriguez’s team and league. Tacopina charged the Yankees’ treatment of Rodriguez’s left hip injury that required surgical repair in January and MLB investigators’ conduct in compiling the information for the 211-game suspension he is appealing.
Yankees President Randy Levine, who is the main target of Tacopina’s accusations, responded by challenging A-Rod’s lawyers to provide the truth about his performance-enhancing drug use and his connection to Canadian sports physician Anthony Galea.
Galea treated Rodriguez in 2009 and the Yankees only knew about A-Rod’s involvement with Galea after the physician got into trouble with law-enforcement officials.
Galea pleaded guilty last year to bringing unapproved drugs, including illegal performance enhancers, into the United States.
Galea is said to have visited Tiger’s Florida home four times, beginning in February 2009, and his treatment of the golf legend was a “platelet-rich plasma therapy” that had nothing to do with Human Growth Hormones (HGH), although the doctor, himself, used HGH for 10 years. Galea says he has never treated any athlete with HGH or Actovegin.
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Several Major League Baseball Players have been linked to Biogenesis, a South Florida clinic, which reportedly supplied performance-enhancers to more than a half-dozen MLB stars. This past week, Porter Fischer, a former associate of Biogenesis head man Tony Bosch, said the number of athletes connected to the clinic actually numbers more than a hundred and includes athletes from MLB, NBA, NCAA, tennis, pro boxing and MMA. Our source tells us Tiger Woods is one of the athletes linked to the PED scandal. Tiger was reportedly supplied with testosterone creams, human growth hormone and steroids. “Tiger’s name is definitely on the list, but the PGA is not releasing which golfers were named” said the source.
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It has been two weeks since a media report that Tiger Woods is on the Biogenesis list, and still Tim Finchem remains silent.
ReplyDeleteGolf fans are left to wonder if Finchem plans to put the yellow jersey on Tiger Woods as he pedals down the Champs-Élysées.
You can’t turn on Golf Channel for five minutes without hearing that the biggest story in golf is Tiger Woods trying to equal Jack Nicklaus’s 18 majors. Saturday night, before the PGA Championship had even ended, Golf Channel was already telling viewers that Tiger Woods had a real good chance to win a major at next year’s tournament sites.
Well, if that is the golf’s biggest story, don’t you think fans of the game and its history deserve to know if Woods is doping? Don’t you think that’s kind of a big deal?
It used to be said of Tiger Woods, “Breaking Jack’s record is a matter of when, not if.” Now we say that regarding a Woods’ admission of doping.
A-Rod has just been banned from Major League Baseball until the year after next. Lest you need reminding, he and Tiger Woods shared an unlicensed doctor, one Anthony Galea, who has since been convicted of sneaking banned PEDs into the United States.
A-Rod has been banned this time for his connections to a sleazy steroid shop in Miami called Biogenesis. Two weeks ago, Terez Owens cited a source who said Tiger Woods’ name is on the Biogenesis customer list.
The source tells us Woods took “testosterone creams, human growth horomone and steroids.” No one at Lanny H Golf takes anything stronger than aspirin and caffeine, so those terms sound like something out of medical school to us, but the testosterone cream did ring a bell.
In 2006, the Florida Times-Union printed this:
“There are many substances that would help someone recover from a workout and the grind of a 35-tournament season,” said Randy Meyer, director of fitness for Sea Island Resort. “Even baseball players aren’t really taking steroids and growth hormones to hit home runs. They were taking them to play day in and day out. They were taking them for the recovery.”
James would not reveal any names, but he said he knows of some PGA Tour players who use a low-dose testosterone cream to help recovery from muscle strain and fatigue. He said they are being used in amounts small enough that don’t enhance a player’s ability to hit the ball farther.
That’s just the testosterone cream. The source said Woods also received HGH and steroids.
Would Tim Finchem hide doping by Tiger Woods? What do you think? Remember Woods’ silly dog-and-pony show at the TPC Sawgrass after his sex scandal? That’s in Jacksonville, Florida. You know, where the PGA Tour is headquartered. Thanks loads, Timmy!
ReplyDeleteWe already know Woods gets the Preferred Customer treatment on the PGA Tour. This past April at Augusta, Woods signed an incorrect scorecard — which has always meant immediate disqualification for any other PGA Tour pros — and, lo and behold, he got off with a mere 2-stroke penalty. I’m shocked!
That’s far from the worst example. Remember last year’s lost ball at Quail Hollow? That’s when we learned the penalty for a lost ball is a free drop. Well, that is, if you are Tiger Woods. (See Stephanie Wie’s great coverage of the incident.)
Is golf headed down the same path as baseball? Once upon a time, any given baseball game and the sport’s sense of history were inseparable. You might be sitting inside the Astrodome watching the Houston Astros play — indoor baseball? — yet still there was a sense of connection to Honus Wagner and Babe Ruth. Some may remember how baseball fans demanded an asterisk when Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record, as Maris did it in 162 games, not the 154 games played in Ruth’s era.
Now, though, do you even know who holds the single-season baseball HR record? I didn’t. I had to look it up. Whereas Maris broke Ruth’s record by a single home run — and we all knew the numbers 61 and 60 — Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds broke Maris’s mark by 9 and 12 home runs, respectively. Got juice?
Then there was the biggest record of them all, The Babe’s 714. Some of you of a certain age will remember the excitement of Hank Aaron’s assault on that magical number. He ultimately passed it and set the mark at 755. Aaron held the record for 33 years, until a ‘roided up Barry Bonds surpassed the mark. Now tell me: do Bonds’ magical home run numbers mean a damned thing to you? If so, you must be a scientist studying the effects of PEDs on athletic performance.
Some PGA Tour officials would cover for Woods, all the while telling themselves they are doing so for a greater good. Oh, but we raise so much money for charity. We mustn’t upset the apple cart. As if telling us the truth about Tiger Woods would cause widows and orphans to die. For the record, the tournament that raises the most money for charity has not seen Woods in almost ten years.
Finchem needs to disclose everything about Tiger Woods and Biogenesis. Major League Baseball is in court trying to get the full records from Porter Fischer, the former Biogenesis employee who absconded with the records. The PGA is doing nothing — other than keeping their eyes, ears, and mouths covered.
The charity of which Finchem is so proud comes from the pockets of corporate sponsors and fans. Corporate sponsors who market themselves as clean and aboveboard deserve better than a sport hiding scandals and lying to the public. And fans — those of us who fork over a fiver for a tournament beer, and do so with a smile, knowing the money goes to charity — deserve better.
Tim Finchem, I’m sure you have a fine, plush bed, but still I must ask: how do you sleep at night?
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Brian Cashman's ex-mistress alleges Tacopina conflict of interest with Alex Rodriguez
ReplyDeleteBy Mark Sandritter @MarkSandritter on Aug 19 2013, 6:02p 6
The situation with Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees took yet another strange turn, this time involving GM Brian Cashman's former mistress.
lex Rodriguez's attorney Joseph Tacopina made headlines recently first, when he accused the Yankees of hiding MRI results, then for his appearance on the Today Show. As it turns out, Rodriguez isn't Tacopina's only tie to the Yankees. Tacopina's firm has ties to the former mistress of Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and she isn't happy about the possible conflict of interest.
Louise Meanwell, Cashman's former mistress, filed court documents claiming Tacopina should be forced to drop Rodriguez as a client, according to a report from the New York Daily News. Stephen Turano, one of the partners of Tacopina, Seigel & Turano represents Meanwell. That tie, according to the lawyer representing Meanwell in the documents filed on Monday, is enough for a conflict of interest.
In the court papers filed on Monday, Meanwell claims Cashman told her various Yankees were using steroids and was "ambivalent" to the use of performance-enhancing drugs by Yankee players. With that knowledge, Meanwell could become a witness in the legal confrontation between Rodriguez, the Yankees, and MLB, thus making for a possible conflict of interest.
To make the situation even more bizarre, Turano represents Meanwell through a separate law firm, one Tacopina is not associated with. "I have never spoken to Steven Turano about her," Tacopina said