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(CBS NEWS) -- New York Yankees' $275 million man Alex Rodriguez, Washington
Nationals All-Star Gio Gonzalez and Texas Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz
are among the players connected to performance-enhancing drugs in a new investigative report by the Miami New Times.
A
former employee of a South Florida clinic called Biogenesis gave the
Miami New Times "an extraordinary batch of records" showing athletes
received various substances from Anthony Bosch, the clinic's chief who
is already under investigation by Major League Baseball and the Drug
Enforcement Administration, as CBSSports.com reported. At least one boxer, one tennis player and a coach were also implicated.
The
report outlines "damning evidence" against A-Rod as his name appears in
Biogenesis records up until 2012. Rodriguez, who finally admitted to taking PEDs in 2009, claims he has been clean for a decade. An excerpt of the report on A-Rod reads:
There,
at number seven on the list, is Alex Rodriguez. He paid $3,500, Bosch
notes. Below that, he writes, "1.5/1.5 HGH (sports perf.) creams test.,
glut., MIC, supplement, sports perf. Diet." HGH, of course, is banned in
baseball, as are testosterone creams...."
The
mentions of Rodriguez begin in 2009 and continue all the way through
last season. Take a page in another notebook, which is labeled "2012"
and looks to have been written last spring. Under the heading
"A-Rod/Cacique," Bosch writes, "He is paid through April 30th. He will
owe May 1 $4,000... I need to see him between April 13-19, deliver
troches, pink cream, and... May meds. Has three weeks of Sub-Q (as of
April).
Other names linked to Biogenesis in the report include outfielder
Melky Cabrera, pitcher Bartolo Colon and catcher Yasmani Grandal - all
of whom were suspended last season under MLB's ban on
performance-enhancing drugs.
Writes Tim Elfrink, the
author of the Miami New Times report: "As baseball teams head to spring
training under a tougher new policy, the Biogenesis records affirm that
the war on doping has been as futile as the War on Drugs."