Tiger Woods’s Toronto sports doctor, Anthony Galea, faces a home court date

While Toronto doctor Anthony Galea couldn’t help Tiger Woods keep that whole adultery thing under wraps, he did help the pro golfer recover from knee surgery—although his methods are the subject of serious legal controversy. Galea is known for a rather unorthodox approach to sports medicine, using techniques that include something known as blood spinning, where a person’s own blood is placed in a centrifuge and reinserted in their body, apparently with greater healing properties. Of course, Galea is also known for (allegedly) using human growth hormone in his treatments—which is both way less cool and way more illegal than blood spinning—and pleaded guilty last summer to smuggling the stuff into the U.S. The plea kept him out of prison, but now he’s facing a court date in Toronto on a variety of related charges. Read the entire story [ESPN] »