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Colon's Stem Cell Treatment Opens New Can of Worms

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Oh, this should be loads of fun.

Just when you thought the mind-numbing decade-long discussion about baseball and performance-enhancing drugs was fizzling out, it's now being reported that Bartolo Colon's(notes) big comeback was aided by a controversial medical procedure involving stem cells.

Now Major League Baseball is looking into the surgery to see if any wrongdoing took place.

Wheee!

A New York Times reporting team led by Serge F. Kovaleski has all of the interesting and gory details — and I encourage all of you to go read it — but the gist is this: With Colon's career flagging due to a shredded rotator cuff and torn ligaments, a team of...

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