Ryan Braun: I am not a juicehead [View all]

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Milwaukee Brewers' star outfielder Ryan Braun's original test for performance-enhancing drugs as the playoffs were winding down in October was "insanely high, the highest ever for anyone who has ever taken a test, twice the level of the highest test ever taken," said a source familiar with the developing case in which Braun was reported to have tested positive for an elevated level of testosterone caused by a synthetic substance, triggering a possible 50-game suspension if the test results are upheld.

The never-before-seen ratio, according to the source, is one of several "highly unusual circumstances" Braun's camp has referred to when adamantly denying that the National League Most Valuable Player ingested a performance-enhancing drug that caused the positive test. His spokesman, Matthew Hiltzick said Saturday after ESPN reported that Braun had tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance: "There are highly unusual circumstances surrounding this case which will support Ryan's complete innocence and demonstrate there was absolutely no intentional violation of the program. ... we are confident he will ultimately be exonerated."

Braun's lawyer, David Cornwell, also said that the positive test was not the result of taking a performance-enhancing drug.

"He did not take performance-enhancing drugs," Cornwell told the Daily News Sunday, "and anyone who writes that is wrong." ............(more)

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