On Jan. 29, Miami's New Times produced one of the biggest scoops from an alternative newsweekly in years, alleging that a number of Major League Baseball players, including New York Yankees star Alex Rodriquez, received Human Growth Hormone and other performance enhancing drugs from a Coral Gables anti-aging clinic called Biogenesis of America.
The story was so huge that officials with MLB visited the paper's headquarters last month, hoping to gain access to clinic records that New Times obtained for its exclusive.
MLB thought there was still a chance of getting those records until Tuesday, when New Times editor Chuck Strouse reported that the paper will not hand over any records.
In the piece, Strouse acknowledged that he originally opposed the sentiments of both the author of the story, Tim Elfrink, and the paper's attorney, who wanted to refuse MLB's request. He wrote that he initially "hoped to see A-Roid and the others punished and believed walking the ethical line was the only way to make that action happen."
This article appears in Mar 14-20, 2013.