The Daily News and New York Post report on the details – sans names – of Dr. Galea giving out Actovegin and HGH. At least 23 pro athletes — most of them NFL and MLB players — are suddenly petrified.
“ESPN has now obtained documents relating to Galea out of Canada, and while there are no names in the documents, this is the kind of thing you see, on a list much longer than this:
Aug. 3: Orlando (Plasma Rich Platelet).
Aug. 6: Athlete B – New York (HGH).
Aug. 12: Athlete A – Washington (vitamin drip/HGH).
Sept. 1: Athlete B – New York (HGH).
Sept. 13: Athlete A called to set up Sept. 14 appointment in Washington. Packed Nutropin (growth hormone) and Actovegin.
There are enough athletes identified by letters to go through the whole alphabet.”
Here is the New York Post piece.
The case was blown open last September when Galea’s executive assistant, Mary Anne Catalano, was stopped at the border by U.S. officials trying to bring HGH into the country.
The Post reports that Catalano is cooperating with U.S. and Canadian authorities, and provided the names of the 23 athletes to authorities, along with a perfectly detailed timeline of their treatments from summer through the end of 2009.
Three of the athletes identified by Catalano were treated in Manhattan last summer, including one player referred to as “Athlete B” in government documents who received HGH injections in his knee six times between July 22 and Sept. 10.
Finally, Steve Czaban has this epic analysis on why we shouldn’t believe Tiger when he says his visits with Dr. Feelgood were all above board and that even though he saw him for his knee – like other cheaters – why we shouldn’t believe that Tiger is actually innocent, unlike every other steroid/PED cheat…
“So wait a minute? Let me get this straight. Tiger claims he never used HGH or steroids. Did so angrily almost, at multiple press conferences.
Yet every single red flag, siren, and flashing light regarding PED usage is going off like crazy right now.
Body change? Check.
Injuries? Check.
Temper. Check.
Need to recover from injury? Check.
Spectacular performance? Check.
Connection to dirty doctor? Check.
Lack of testing by his sport? Check.
Oh, one more thing. Tiger has proven to be a complete f%$#ing liar. His whole life was a lie. He lies to this day about injuries.
He wouldn’t talk to police after the accident, and then tried to tell us “it’s all in the police report.”
But I’m gonna take him at his word when he says he never used PEDs. I’m sure he’s shooting me straight on that one.
Because PED abusers never lie. Ever. Except for Marion Jones, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, and um, who was that other person…. oh, yeah, EVERY F&%$ING CHEATER EVER IN SPORTS HISTORY!”
Steve left out premature hair loss, acne, and sports feats that were so superhuman they were statistical outliers. He also left out the connection between Tiger’s trainer Keith Kleven and BALCO/Victor Conte. The noose tightens…
One other thing: don’t ever count on Timid Finchem to do the honorable thing and the right thing for golf and suspend him pending an investigation. There;s too much money at stake in the potentially tainted record chase and Tiger has to be hurried across the finish line however possible and the truth and what’s right be damned.
It is time for a new, more responsible Commissioner of the PGA Tour. one who has the strength of will to clean up the sport and actually institute a testing policy that will catch real cheaters: hose using HGH and new designer drugs.
By the way…BALCO sure is close to Stanford University…
