Breaking Sports Alert: Ortiz, Manny reportedly were on 2003 doping list

One of the worst fears of Red Sox fans has apparently come true this afternoon. David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, the charismatic sluggers who helped lead the franchise to a pair of World Series titles this decade, were among the 103 players to test positive for performance-enhancing drugs during supposedly anonymous 2003 testing, according to a report in the New York Times this afternoon.

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