(This site has long been a sanctuary for Manny Ramirez, though in light of today's news that love is no longer unabashed. With not-so-hopeful hopes that someday soon he'll reveal his doctor, unveil his "personal health issue," and thus allow baseball to put this behind it as a medical misunderstanding, here's a column that'll run in tomorrow's Concord Monitor.)

Or did it?

We know this: We know Manny Ramirez was suspended 50 games for violating the game’s ban on performance-enhancing drugs. We know he accepted his punishment without protest, forgoing the appeal to which he was entitled. And we know that after a decade of reports indicting the Red Sox only through rumors and role players, a star who spent the prime of his career in Boston has finally been implicated.

But it’s the things we don’t know that muddle the matter into some murky shade of gray. As is typical of most things when it comes to Manny being Manny, there’s no such thing as black and white, a reality revealed once more yesterday as differing details were disseminated through media sources nationwide.

The story of his suspension broke just before noon, but within an hour Yahoo! Sports was reporting that Ramirez had twice tested positive for a “sexual enhancer,” not steroids or human growth hormone. Then, not even an hour after that, ESPN countered with claims that the substance in question was a women’s fertility drug used to restart the body’s production of testosterone, typically after levels had been lessened by a steroids cycle.

See more at ConcordMonitor.com.