{"id":11008,"date":"2011-12-11T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/national-league-mvp-ryan-braun-tests-positive-for-performance-enhancing-drugs\/"},"modified":"2011-12-11T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T11:51:00","slug":"national-league-mvp-ryan-braun-tests-positive-for-performance-enhancing-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/11\/national-league-mvp-ryan-braun-tests-positive-for-performance-enhancing-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"National League MVP Ryan Braun Tests Positive for Performance-Enhancing Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>National League MVP<\/span> <span>Tests Positive for<\/span> <span>Performance-Enhancing Drugs<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"36.443228454172\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/90671211-ryan-braun-getty-bn.jpg\" alt=\"1211_ryan-braun_getty_bn\" \/><br \/>Newly-voted National League MVP <strong>Ryan Braun<\/strong>\u00a0from the <strong>Milwaukee Brewers<\/strong> has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs &#8212; but the baseball star is challenging the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports, Braun was tested during the playoffs this year &#8212; and the test showed his system contained elevated levels of testosterone.<\/p>\n<p>28-year-old Braun is fighting the results, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel,\u00a0he&#8217;s the victim of &#8220;highly unusual circumstances&#8221; &#8212; adding,\u00a0&#8220;This is all B.S. I am completely innocent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Braun faces a 50-game suspension if the results are upheld.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"continued\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/12\/11\/ryan-braun-performance-enhancing-drugs\/\" title=\"National League MVP Ryan Braun Tests Positive for Performance-Enhancing Drugs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National League MVP Ryan Braun Tests Positive for Performance-Enhancing Drugs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> National League MVP Tests Positive for Performance-Enhancing Drugs Newly-voted National League MVP Ryan Braun \u00a0from the Milwaukee Brewers has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs &#8212; but the baseball star is challenging the accusations. According to multiple reports, Braun was tested during the playoffs this year &#8212; and the test showed his system contained elevated levels of testosterone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National League MVP Ryan Braun Tests Positive for Performance-Enhancing Drugs - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/11\/national-league-mvp-ryan-braun-tests-positive-for-performance-enhancing-drugs\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"National League MVP Ryan Braun Tests Positive for Performance-Enhancing Drugs - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"National League MVP Tests Positive for Performance-Enhancing Drugs Newly-voted National League MVP Ryan Braun \u00a0from the Milwaukee Brewers has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs -- but the baseball star is challenging the accusations. 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