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NYDN Sports I-Team "Dr. Galea has not been and is not involved in providing performance-enhancing drugs to competitive athletes," his lawyer Brian Greenspan said. "The name Tiger Woods and any suggestion of a linkage to Tiger Woods is non existent."
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The attorney for the doctor who treated embattled golfer Tiger Woods denied reports that his client has provided performance-enhancing drugs to athletes and said the charges Tony Galea faces have "absolutely nothing to do with Tiger Woods."
NYDN Sports I-Team "First, let me say, with all this talk about Tiger Woods, Dr. Tony Galea is in no way responsible for (Woods') voracious sexual appetite," Christophe Preobrezanski told the Daily News Thursday.
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Dr. Tony Galea is a respected healer, "one of the good guys," says his ex-lawyer, who claims the embattled doctor is a respected physician caught up in Tiger Woods' sex scandal.
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Reyes, who missed most of the 2009 season after suffering a torn right
hamstring tendon, thought the blood-spinning treatment might expedite
his return to the lineup. He eventually had surgery to address the
injury.
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Mets shortstop Jose Reyes joined the long list of athletes who have visited Tony Galea's Toronto offices, but unlike many of the doctor's true believers, Reyes says Galea's controversial "blood-spinning" treatment didn't help him.
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In musclehead circles, Actovegin is already a well-known doping agent -
and might get even become a bestseller now that it's in the news.
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It may be obscure to most people, but the calf-blood derivative Actovegin is familiar in one place where people are often a little bit more pharmacologically adventurous: the bodybuilding community.
NYDN Sports I-Team After her arrest at the Peace Bridge point of entry near Buffalo, Catalano waived her right to remain silent and told law enforcement officers that day that Galea had told her to bring the drugs and other items into the U.S. because "he had been flagged."
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MaryAnne Catalano told federal border agents that her boss, Dr. Tony Galea, who had treated Tiger Woods and other pro athletes, had no medical licenses in the United States.
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The relationship between doctor Tony Galea and Tiger Woods - not to mention other athletes - has left some sports medicine experts wondering why an wealthy athlete like Woods would turn to someone so far off the beaten path.
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The Canadian doctor who performed a controversial medical procedure on Tiger Woods is under criminal investigation for drug violations, inging scrutiny to his colleagues, including one who worked closely with BALCO athletes and A-Rod.
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Mark McGwire may decide his new job as the St. Louis Cardinals' hitting coach isn't worth the scrutiny he'll face over his role in baseball's steroid scandal, new Hall of Famer Whitey Herzog said on Monday.
NYDN Sports I-Team Two years later, Jones continues to downplay her role in the BALCO scandal or acknowledge that she violated federal drug laws and Olympic rules for years by using the performance-enhancing drugs that turned her into a global star at the Sydney Olympics, even as she lectures school kids in her "Take a Break" program in ...an effort to satisfy her 800 hours of mandated community service.
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Marion Jones looked like a oken woman when she stood in a White Plains federal courtroom in January 2008 and pleaded with U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Karas to spare her from prison.
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A federal judge has ruled that only a jury trial or voluntary settlement can resolve the lawsuits between former Tour de France winner Greg LeMond and Trek Bicycle, which center on doping allegations involving LeMond's rival, Lance Armstrong.
NYDN Sports I-Team The two years that have passed since the Mitchell Report was published have included defamation suits, a congressional hearing, drug reforms in baseball, and a lot of waiting around as a grand jury investigates Roger Clemens for perjury.
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Roger Clemens' reputation is in smithereens, but two years after the Mitchell Report described him as a user of hard-core anabolic steroids, he's still mostly living the good life while ian McNamee is living on the edge. Many of the other characters involved have moved on, too.
NYDN Sports I-Team Yuri Sucart, the cousin A-Rod claims persuaded and helped him to use steroids from 2001 to 2003, has not fared well. Banks began foreclosure proceedings on his Miami home and three South Florida rental properties in the months after Rodriguez's Feb. 17 news conference.
Since steroid confession, Alex Rodriguez has turned into Series hero, while Yuri Sucart's now a zero
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An entire baseball season has passed since Alex Rodriguez acknowledged using steroids at that awkward spring training press conference in Feuary, and the Yankees' $275 million man has rebounded quite nicely, going from steroid zero to World Series hero in just nine months.
NYDN Sports I-Team Visually-impaired ski racer Caitlin Sarubbi, of Brooklyn and Harvard, has a mysterious developmental disorder called Ablepharon Macrostomia Syndrome. She has undergone 58 surgeries in her 19 years, and is aiming for the 2010 Paralympics.
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As a visually impaired ski racer, Caitlin Sarubbi is relying on a combination of her feel for gravity, the radio messages of her guide, and a bottomless store of courage. Her downhill race at the Paralympics ...
NYDN Sports I-Team "There is no question that the statements from Clemens and his lawyer and spokesmen are a serious and nasty attack on Brian, accusing him of being a criminal and mentally unstable," said McNamee's attorney Richard Emery. "That is part of the defamation here."
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In a motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit ian McNamee filed against Roger Clemens earlier this year, spokesmen for the pitcher were not serious when they said McNamee was trying to shake down Clemens.
NYDN Sports I-Team U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kyle heard oral arguments Wednesday in the case and deferred ruling on two summary judgment motions, keeping open the possibility of an explosive trial in March - a proceeding which would all but certainly involve questions about Armstrong and doping.
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March will likely be the time when a jury trial in the bitter, 18-month-old legal showdown between Greg LeMond and Trek, the Wisconsin-based bicycle company LeMond has accused of eaching its contract with him under pressure from Lance Armstrong.
