Manny Suspended: Ramirez Most Famous Player Caught By Testing

Suspension Will Cost Ramirez $7.7M Of $25M '09 Salary

ANOTHER TEST FOR MLB: In DC, Dave Sheinin writes following Yankees 3B Alex Rodriguez acknowledging prior performance-enhancing drug use, MLB "has now seen its two highest-paid active stars nabbed this year in a span of only four months.” And it comes at a time when MLB “had hoped the worst of its drug scandal was behind it." WADA member Gary Wadler noted that if Ramirez “had a legitimate medical reason to take the drug, he could have applied for a therapeutic use exemption, over 100 of which were handed out in both 2007 and 2008” (WASHINGTON POST, 5/8). In a front-page cover story, USA TODAY’s Bob Nightengale writes Ramirez’ suspension is the “latest blemish to raise questions about the game,” but it also is a “sign that new testing procedures aimed at cleaning up the sport could be helping” (USA TODAY, 5/8). Several anti-doping experts said that the finding “may signal a new, more sophisticated chapter of baseball’s steroid era” (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 5/8). 

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