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Found February 24, 2012 on LA Times:
PLAYERS: Matt Kemp
TEAMS: Los Angeles Dodgers
NL MVP's 50-game suspension for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs is overturned, but skepticism could linger because of the perception that his appeal was won largely on a technicality.So much for the dust-up over National League most valuable player Ryan Braun's testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs and potentially forfeiting the award to the Dodgers' Matt Kemp, who finished second in the voting.
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