In the wake of New Times investigation into Coral Gables clinic Biogenesis, both Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and clinic owner Tony Bosch have denied any link to each other or to performance enhancing drugs.But a source tells ESPN’s T.J. Quinn in a new report that the pair not only knew…
On Monday, New Times released an investigation into Biogenesis, a local anti-aging firm run by Tony Bosch. Records obtained by New Times suggest Bosch was selling performance enhancing drugs to a number of professional athletes; throughout the week, we’ve been posting those records as they pertain to the nine athletes…
Up through last August, Melky Cabrera was having a career year for the San Francisco Giants. He smacked 51 hits in May alone and was honored as the All Star Game MVP after going 2-3 in a National League victory. But then Major League Baseball found elevated testosterone levels in…
UPDATE: Seven months after New Times published its investigation into Biogenesis and its founder, Tony Bosch, Major League Baseball suspended 14 players tied to the clinic, the most drug-related suspensions in the history of American professional sports. Those suspensions included a 65-game ban for former MVP Ryan Braun and a…
Three of the nine athletes named in New Times investigation into Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic run by Anthony Bosch, have responded to the story. Alex Rodriguez, Gio Gonzalez and Wayne Odesnik have all issued denials. Jimmy Goins, the University of Miami strength and conditioning coach, tells the Sun-Sentinel…
Hialeah native (and Washington Nationals Pitcher) Gio Gonzalez has issued a denial via Twitter that he has ever been associated with Tony Bosch’s shuttered Coral Gables clinic, Biogenesis. Here’s what Gio Gonzalez had to say: “I’ve never used performance enhancing drugs of any kind and I never will, I’ve never…
This week, New Times takes you inside Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables run by Miami entrepreneur Anthony Bosch. His name is familiar to sports fans because he and his father, Dr. Pedro Bosch, were probed by authorities in 2009 when Manny Ramirez was suspended for violating baseball’s drug…
This much, at least, is clear: Around 5 a.m. this morning, someone opened fire on a Rolls -Royce on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. More than a dozen shots were fired, and the Rolls ended up careening into the front of a restaurant.Now for the real question: Was Rick…
A nightmare scenario played out in front of a Liberty City restaurant yesterday when an armed mugger confronted a mother with two young kids in tow and demanded her purse. The mom, identified by her family as Evelyn Matamoro, handed over her purse without a struggle — but then the…
The dramatic photo went viral last night, shared hundreds of times on Facebook and splashed across Latin American blogs. It showed Hugo Chavez in exactly the kind of dire condition so many of his opponents believed he was in since missing his inauguration earlier this month: Strapped into a breathing…
Miami was captivated in November 2011 when a would-be plastic surgeon with a prodigious ass named Oneal Morris was arrested after injecting mixtures including Fix-a-Flat into her patients’ butts. Now it seems like Morris was only the tip of the bootleg butt doc industry in South Florida.A Pahokee man known…
Carlos Miller, the photographer and activist behind the “Photography is Not A Crime” blog, feels pretty damn strongly that there’s nothing illegal about shooting photos or video on a taxpayer-funded Metrorail platform. He believes so strongly that he’s already sued the County’s security company over two previous incidents where they…
In a move that’s a longshot to fix the Miami Heat’s rebounding woes but is a surefire, lead pipe lock to fix the lack of hilarious people on the Heat to write about on local blogs, the team has signed Chris “Birdman” Andersen, the heavily tatooed big man last seen…
Choose your own terrible crime adventure: Ricardo Davis was driving his girlfriend to work at Taco Bell this week just up the coast in Palm Bay when the couple started to argue. The girlfriend pushed Davis’ head, so he responded by a) Calmly telling her to cool off; b) Singing…
It’s been a terrible week for Miami’s bicycle activists. First, a judge sentenced Michele Traverso — who killed cyclist Aaron Cohen last year on the Rickenbacker Causeway in a brutal hit-and-run — to less than a year in jail, even though he’d been driving on a suspended license. Then, this…
Brad Meltzer’s “The Fifth Assassin”
Miami Photog Leads Lawsuit Against Remington Over Misfiring Model 700 Rifles
When the Miami-Dade Police Department acquired two drones in 2010 and then got FAA clearance to fly them, civil rights advocates warned the move was a harbinger of the Blade Runner police state to come when unmanned aircraft would hover outside every window. That privacy nightmare could still come to…
For two years, a slight, balding man in Miami has hunched over his desk, making dozens of calls a day peppered with phrases custom-built to perk up Secret Service ears: “assassination,” “president,” “John Wilkes Booth.” This week, just days before Obama is sworn in for his second term, his fiendish…
Among all the third rails in American politics — abortion, gun control, Jodie Foster’s Golden Globes speech — there is one truly untouchable area: Messing with cute dogs. Just ask Mitt Romney how the tale of strapping the family pooch to the roof of his car for a cross-country trip…
The Miami Marlins swindled local taxpayers out of nearly $500 million while lying about team finances. The Miami Heat cook their books every year to pretend American Airlines Arena — home to the world’s greatest basketball team — still isn’t profitable enough to pay rent to taxpayers.So as perpetually mediocre…
Tim Chapman, a veteran news photographer who retired last year from the Miami Herald, had been hunting his whole life, and obeyed one rule above all: Always assume your gun is loaded and ready to fire. In October 2009, it probably saved his life. That’s when Chapman’s Remington Model 700…
