Tunes are changing in the Peyton Manning HGH allegations faster than a malfunctioning iPod.
A few days after the source of a story linking the Broncos quarterback to performance-enhancing drugs recanted his claims, and a day after an Al Jazeera reporter stood by her story on Manning, the reporter went on the "Today" show and clarified what she reported.
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That the report never implicated Manning, just his wife.
"The allegation is very simple," said Al Jazeera's Deborah Davies. "That when Charlie Sly worked at the Guyer during part of his training, his rotation for pharmacy, the clinic was sending out not one shipment, but repeated shipments of growth hormone to Ashley Manning in Florida. That's it. That's the allegation.
"... We're not making the allegation against Peyton Manning."
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But the hour-long Al Jazeera report, "The Dark Side" was an attempt to exposé performance-enhancing drugs in global sports. Sly, either an intern or someone working toward his PhD, told Liam Collins, a British hurdler working undercover for Al Jazeera, about Manning, not his wife.
"Sly tells Collins, who is taking secret video of his interactions, that he was 'part of a medical team that helped [Manning] recover' from the surgery," the exposé reported. "Sly alleges that the clinic mailed growth hormone and other drugs to Manning's wife, Ashley Manning, so that the quarterback's name was never attached to them.
"All the time we would be sending Ashley Manning drugs," Sly says in the video. "Like growth hormone, all the time, everywhere, Florida. And it would never be under Peyton's name, it would always be under her name."
Using the quarterback's name sure sounds as if Al Jazeera meant to implicate Peyton.
Davies told "Today" only that the wife was using a drug that is illegal in the U.S., except for the treatment of three serious illnesses, and that Ashley should indicate whether that is the case.
But Ashley Manning is not an athlete, so technically, she shouldn't be part of "The Dark Side."
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