ABCDE SPORTS sunday, june 6, 2010 TENNIS Schiavone beats Stosur
for French Open title She is Italy’s first female Grand Slam winner. D3
PRO BASKETBALL
Boston looks to rebound from sub-par Game 1
The Celtics seek to get even in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. D6
BASEBALL
Maldonado heads to the disabled list
Nationals catcher suffered a fractured thumb in Houston. D5
“You go up to see somebody doing experimental treatment, you better be damn sure you know exactly what your doctor is doing.” — Steven Ungerleider, an anti-doping expert
CUTTING EDGE OR OVER THE EDGE? Canadian doctor who has treated numerous pro athletes finds his techniques under scrutiny
by Amy Shipley U.S. and Canadian court documents SAMI SIVA VIA REDUX PICTURES
Canadian doctor Anthony Galea has his passionate defenders but also has federal charges pending against him.
paint Toronto doctor Anthony Galea as an unscrupulous quack who dashed around the United States last summer making clandestine house calls to 23 professional athletes despite not being licensed to practice in the country. Yet respected sports officials and doc- tors close to Galea describe him as a pro- gressive physician who for the past dec- ade has been at the cutting edge of sports medicine, using innovative techniques
and alternative therapies to build an al- most cult-like following among athletes who regard him as a miracle healer. By last year, Galea was so renowned in
the athlete community that golfer Tiger Woods, New York Yankees third base- man Alex Rodriguez, figure skater Pat- rick Chan and Washington Redskins wide receiver Santana Moss sought him out. “You hear this guy is great, and you’re
trying to find ways not to have surgery,” said a prominent athlete who has re- ceived treatment from Galea but re- quested anonymity because of federal
charges pending against Galea. “To me, a huge light bulb went off . . . I was just go- ing to him because of his reputation.” According to an indictment filed in
U.S. federal court in the Western District of New York on May 18, Galea’s unortho- doxy extended so far that between 2007 and late last year, he sent illegal, un- approved and other drugs over the U.S. border with a medical assistant, meeting up with her to provide treatments with an array of drugs to players from the NFL, Major League Baseball and PGA Tour.
Galea’s medical assistant, Mary Anne
Catalano, told U.S. and Canadian investi- gators that Galea injected drug cocktails containing human growth hormone (HGH), a performance-enhancing drug banned by nearly every sports organiza- tion in the world, into the injured knees of some athletes. Galea has denied giving any athletes any drugs banned by their sports. The picture that emerges of Galea as the case proceeds through the U.S. and Canadian courts could be critical if con- crete evidence links specific athletes to
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upset at the Belmont
Stakes Drosselmeyer beats 13-1 odds and the heat, wins by three-quarters of a length
by Richard Rosenblatt Associated Press
elmont, n.y. — Drosselmeyer finally got a shot in a Triple Crown race and it paid off with an upset in the $1 million Belmont Stakes. Left out of the Kentucky Derby be- cause he hadn’t earned enough money to qualify, Drosselmeyer staged a stirring stretch run and beat Fly Down by three- quarters of a length Saturday in the final leg of the Triple Crown. With neither Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver nor Preakness winner Look- in At Lucky in the field, the 11
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mont looked to be a matchup of classic runner-ups — Ice Box from the Derby vs. First Dude from the Preakness. First Dude took the lead from the start but couldn’t hold off Drosselmeyer in the stretch and finished third. Ice Box, the 9-5 favorite trained by Nick Zito, was never in contention and finished ninth in the 12-horse field. Fly Down, also trained by Zito, was the sec- ond choice at 5-1. The victory not only reaffirmed Dros-
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Landon Donovan gets a lift from teammate Edson Buddle after he scored during the first half of their warmup match against Australia. roodepoort, south africa
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he dress rehearsal could not have gone much better for the United States. ¶ In a small stadium near an open field in a sub- urb west of Johannesburg, the Americans beat Australia for the first time, a 3-1 victory Saturday on a sun-splashed autumn afternoon that filled the U.S. players with confidence. ¶ Next up is the game the Americans have been waiting six months for, their high-profile World Cup opener against England on June 12. ¶ “We don’t fear them,” Landon Donovan said. “We feel they’re a team we can compete with.” ¶ Edson Buddle, not even in the national team picture a few months ago, scored
in the fourth and 31st minutes for his first two international goals. Herculez Gomez, another player not expected to make the roster, en- tered in the 82nd minute and scored against the Socceroos in injury time, his second national team goal in 12 days.
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South Africa is ready to be seen,
FOTO24/GALLO IMAGES VIA GETTY IMAGES
A young soccer fan blows a vuvuzela as part of a celebration in Kimberley, South Africa, marking the 50-day countdown to the start of the World Cup.
and heard Among the sounds in this year’s World Cup, none will draw more attention than the sound of the vuvuzela, a long plastic horn. When vuvuzelas are blown en masse during soccer matches, it’s like a deafening swarm of locusts.
-mile Bel-
MICHAEL WILBON
Wooden’s lessons ring true today
T los angeles
he NBA Finals, quite appropriately, became a sidebar to the mourning and celebration of a
legend. The big boys watched film and plotted strategy Saturday afternoon with an eye on the game’s biggest prize, just as Coach John Wooden would have wanted them to. It was the most appropriate tribute of all the ones paid to him here in the immediate wake of his passing. Even the oldest among them, the Lakers and Celtics in their mid-30s, are too young to have seen the UCLA Bruins of Alcindor and Walton, and mostly of Wooden, play championship basketball in the 1960s and ’70s. But it is a standard they’re still trying to reach. Whatever they didn’t know before about Wooden and UCLA, Wooden and his dear wife Nell,Wooden and his “Pyramid of Success,”Wooden and his relationship with his players — they know now. Southern California appears content to take its sweet time lavishing praise on perhaps the most important
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