Ray Lewis may have used banned substance to recover from torn triceps
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The good news is that linebacker Ray Lewis may not be facing many questions about a 13-year-old controversy during media day. The bad news is that there’s a fresh topic into which the assembled reporters will want to delve when Lewis and the Ravens gather at the Superdome for the annual exercise in journalistic hysteria.
According to Sports Illustrated, Lewis contacted a company owned by a former male stripper to obtain a deer-antler velvet extract after tearing his triceps in October.
Mitch Ross of S.W.A.T.S reportedly videotaped the phone call from Lewis.
“Spray on my elbow every two hours?” Lewis asked Ross regarding the extract, via Philly.com. (Quotes from the conversation don’t appear in the free online version of the Sports Illustrated article; presumably, Philly.com gleaned the info from the full article.)
“No,” Ross said. “Under your tongue.”
Later, Lewis asked Ross to “just pile me up and just send me everything you got, because I got to get back on this this week.”
The problem for Lewis is that the extract contains IGF-1, which is on the NFL’s list of banned substances. For the NFL, the problem is that Lewis will retire after Sunday. So there’s really nothing that can be done — unless Lewis admits to it on Tuesday and the league puts the investigative process into the highest gear possible.
Even then, it’s impossible that the matter would progress through all available appeals before Sunday night.
According to Sports Illustrated, Lewis contacted a company owned by a former male stripper to obtain a deer-antler velvet extract after tearing his triceps in October.
Mitch Ross of S.W.A.T.S reportedly videotaped the phone call from Lewis.
“Spray on my elbow every two hours?” Lewis asked Ross regarding the extract, via Philly.com. (Quotes from the conversation don’t appear in the free online version of the Sports Illustrated article; presumably, Philly.com gleaned the info from the full article.)
“No,” Ross said. “Under your tongue.”
Later, Lewis asked Ross to “just pile me up and just send me everything you got, because I got to get back on this this week.”
The problem for Lewis is that the extract contains IGF-1, which is on the NFL’s list of banned substances. For the NFL, the problem is that Lewis will retire after Sunday. So there’s really nothing that can be done — unless Lewis admits to it on Tuesday and the league puts the investigative process into the highest gear possible.
Even then, it’s impossible that the matter would progress through all available appeals before Sunday night.
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Timing is a m'fer. In Ray's favor... They'll juts hit the 'you know, we're so focused on this game we're not gonna adress those rumors' (as if he wasnt recorded)
A whole can of worms would explode if this dropped earlier. Now tho nggas all just wanna watch the game.
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This opens a bigger issue tho. If it is just deer antler extract, how you ban some natural ? ???? They dont ban whey protien..
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goddell mad he cant do ? .
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Lmfao@ Duke videotaping the conversation.
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Man at this point who gives a ? ?
I understand banning anabolic steroids but I don't understand why demonize HGH when it's primarily used to heal faster.
These leagues really gonna tell human beings that they can't take any means possible to heal themselves as quickly as possible? Tell them that they have to sit and suffer through whatever injury or ailment they have until it runs it's course? -
Man at this point who gives a ? ?
I understand banning anabolic steroids but I don't understand why demonize HGH when it's primarily used to heal faster.
These leagues really gonna tell human beings that they can't take any means possible to heal themselves as quickly as possible? Tell them that they have to sit and suffer through whatever injury or ailment they have until it runs it's course?
Yep, but they'll start givin kids anti-inflammatory meds n pain killers in hgh school -
Cheatin ass big nose preachin ? Fucced up
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And I thought he was just a cokehead.
Turns out he's....
*Mike Epps voice*
"...on everay-thang." -
you can't contact a male stripper and not expect something to go horribly wrong
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you can't contact a male stripper and not expect something to go horribly wrong
And you know this becauuussse...??? -
greenwood1921 wrote: »
because someone i know contacted a male stripper and it went horribly wrong, so they said. -
Tommy bilfiger wrote: »Cheatin ass big nose preachin ? Fucced up
Don't know why but I laughed -
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aslong as Ry ain't fail a drug tests he straight but i wonder if dude is gonna play the recording
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lmao @ deer antler spray healin a tricep ? really is reachin to try to diminish Ray Lewis
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BlackAX410 wrote: »lmao @ deer antler spray healin a tricep ? really is reachin to try to diminish Ray Lewis
they ain't reaching folks take that ? for a reason. Apparantly it simulates HGH which helps your ? regenerate somebody else was doing this ? not too long ago
we got avi bet right
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BlackAX410 wrote: »lmao @ deer antler spray healin a tricep ? really is reachin to try to diminish Ray Lewis
i don't think its a reach when they are talking about taking a banned substance.
the only reach is that they assume people care about steroids in football. for whatever reason, baseball and the olympics and Lance Armstrong are the ones people care about when it comes to PED's. But football? they could produce positive tests from Ray Lewis and anyone else they wanted to and a majority of people wouldn't give a ? . -
Deer antler spray is whats hot in the streets now
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I hope this ? ain't true. Ray is one hell of a football player.
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damn in the course of a few hours you had reports of A-rod part of some suspected clinic with banned substances and a story about ray lewis deer antlers and a male stripper. You know media outlets are doing the ray lewis dance.
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Lmao, so deer antler velvet extract is some super steroid?
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BlackAX410 wrote: »lmao @ deer antler spray healin a tricep ? really is reachin to try to diminish Ray Lewis
they ain't reaching folks take that ? for a reason. Apparantly it simulates HGH which helps your ? regenerate somebody else was doing this ? not too long ago
we got avi bet right
hell yea lets get it -
unspoken_respect wrote: »Lmao, so deer antler velvet extract is some super steroid?
Apparently it can speed up the healing process in the human body. I foresee a lot of deer disappearing in the following weeks.
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Tommy bilfiger wrote: »Cheatin ass big nose preachin ? Fucced up
Is every ? in Chicago a hating ass ? ?
