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By Nathan Petrashek
Let me put this out there immediately: I have no idea whether Ryan Braun used performance-enhancing drugs. It's entirely possible that he did. As much as we think we do, we (fans) don't know who professional athletes really are. While everything in Braun's public persona suggests to me he didn't, I simply don't know. And neither does anyone else except Ryan Braun.
That didn't stop a ton of national reporters from generating clicks with misleading headlines.
Here's one from SI's Tom Verducci: "As Braun's name surfaces in PED scandal, another sad day for sports"
The Miami Herald writes: "Braun releases statement on PED link to Miami-based clinic"
Even the Journal-Sentinel's Tom Haudricourt gets in on the fun: "Ryan Braun attributes PED link to Research for 2011 drug appeal"
The problem: Recently discovered documents don't link Ryan Braun to PEDs.
Let's recap what we know. Less than a week ago, the Miami New Times published a report linking some of baseball's biggest names, including Alex Rodriguez, Nelson Cruz, and Melky Cabrera, with a Miami anti-aging clinic that also supposedly supplied performance-enhancing drugs. The New Times obtained the records from an employee who worked at the clinic, Biogenesis, before it closed in December 2012. The records contained numerous references to the University of Miami baseball team, including conditioning coach Jimmy Goins, which I said at the time spelled bad news for Braun after his successful appeal of a positive drug test in 2011.
It got much worse for Braun yesterday. Yahoo's Tim Brown and Jeff Passan found Braun's name in the Biogensis records. In some people's minds, this meant an immediate link to PEDs and guilt. Yet Brown and Passan specifically stated:
Three of the Biogenesis clinic records obtained by Yahoo! Sports show Braun's name. Unlike the players named by the Miami New Times in its report that blew open the Biogenesis case, Braun's name is not listed next to any specific PEDs.
Which is why the New Times didn't report his name in the first place, incidentally. In a blog post, the Mami New Times' Chuck Strouse clarified:
Yahoo!'s story raises an obvious question. If Braun and Cervelli's name appear in the Bosch records at the heart of New Times' investigation — and indeed, Yahoo!'s report does appear to match New Times records — why didn't we report them in our first story?
Simple: An abundance of caution.
As Yahoo! notes, the records do not clearly associate either Braun, Cervelli or a third player who this morning denied all ties with Bosch (Orioles third baseman Danny Valencia) with use of supplements. Yahoo! apparently obtained copies of just these page of Bosch's notebooks independently of New Times.
So what did the Biogenesis records reveal? The Yahoo! story identifies three documents with Braun's name:
1) A list that includes some players linked to PEDs (Rodriguez, Cabrera, and Cesar Carrillo) and some not (Francisco Cervelli and Danny Valencia).
2) A document which lists Braun's name along with "RB 20-30k." A picture of this document was not included in the Yahoo! report.
3) A letter to an associate apparently congratulating Melky Cabrera on his MVP and referencing something called the "'Braun' advantage."
Braun issued a plausible explanation after the story broke, claiming his attorneys consulted with Tony Bosch, a Biogenesis employee, while preparing for his successful appeal. Braun stated Bosch answered questions "about T/E ratio and possibilities of tampering with samples." According to Braun, there was a dispute over compensation for Bosch's work, which was why Braun and his lawyer were listed under "moneys owed" and not on any other list.
This is at least consistent with the "RB 20-30k" notation and multiple references to one of Braun's lawyers, Chris Lyons, later in the documents. David Cornwell, another Braun attorney, released a statement saying he was introduced to Bosch early in Braun's case and "found Bosch's value to be negligible."
While the reference to a "'Braun' advantage" is somewhat troubling, it amounts to nothing more than an obscure and ambiguous reference in a letter that could mean almost anything. Nothing in the newest documents directly links Braun to PEDs or gives any more clarity to the circumstances surrounding Braun's positive test in 2011 (for which I found Braun's explanation last year wanting).
In short, we don't know much more now than we did in 2011. As with his statement last year, Braun's most recent pronouncement almost raises more questions than answers.
So if you read anything proclaiming Braun definitively guilty or innocent, don't believe it. We just don't know.


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Ball Aerospace Wins S-Band Phased Array Demonstration for NASA Space Launch System
BOULDER, Colo. - Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected to develop its S-Band phased array antenna for the next-generation U.S. Space Launch System (SLS) under a NASA Research Announcement.
The Ball Reliable Advanced Integrated Network (BRAIN) will deliver a single-solution prototype antenna that allows for sustained high data rate downlink from launch through mission completion. The high-performance antenna is operative for only seven-to-twelve minutes - the critical amount of time needed for sending telemetry and to video link to the ground during launch phase.
"Ball Aerospace is leveraging our company's extensive phased array antenna expertise for the Defense Department to demonstrate the SLS antenna," said David L. Taylor, Ball Aerospace president and CEO. "Ball's antenna design and adaptability ensures that data will be maintained even in the event of a vehicle anomaly."
The SLS will be the most powerful rocket the U.S. has built since the Apollo-era Saturn V booster, and will carry humans deeper into space than ever before. This is Ball's first contract win for the SLS.
As part of the company's manned exploration portfolio, work is continuing on the Orion phased array antenna. Ball is also supplying other components to Lockheed Martin in support of Orion including docking cameras, star trackers and the vision navigation system which was demonstrated on STS-134. Ball Aerospace worked on flight avionics as part of the NASA Ares contract for human-rated launch capabilities to the Boeing Company. Ball is leveraging advanced, high reliability and fault tolerant systems technologies in pursuit of other human spaceflight business opportunities such as NASA's Commercial Crew and the International Space Station.
The NASA NRA supports an evolutionary development strategy for SLS that allows for incremental progress within constrained budgets. To achieve this goal, NASA has solicited innovative development concepts from both industry and academic institutions that improve affordability, reliability or performance.
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. supports critical missions for national agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. government and commercial entities. The company develops and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, components, data exploitation systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical and scientific applications. For more information visit www.ballaerospace.com.
Ball Corporation (NYSE:BLL) is a supplier of high quality packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 14,500 people worldwide and reported 2011 sales of more than $8.6 billion. For the latest Ball news and for other company information, please visit www.ball.com.
SOURCE Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
CONTACT: Roz Brown, +1-303-533-6059, firstname.lastname@example.com
Web Site: www.ballaerospace.com

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