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After months of suspense, Major League Baseball finally announced yesterday that Alex Rodriquez (aka A-Rod) is headlining a list of 13 players being suspended for violating the league’s drug policy. They were all ensnared by their illicit association with Biogenesis – a steroids lab in Miami masquerading as an anti-aging clinic. All of the players… Read more.
Last night the New York Yankees (with a team payroll of almost $200 million) showed themselves, once again, to be the biggest and most expensive losers in the history of professional sports. Specifically, they failed in their quest to win another World Series in humiliating fashion when the Detroit Tigers (with a team payroll of less… Read more.
I appreciate the fact that Alex Rodriguez became the first superstar baseball player to admit taking performance-enhancing drugs while still in his prime. He made this game attempt to come clean during a press conference yesterday at the Yankees’ spring-training camp in Tampa, Florida. Regrettably, he injected unnecessary doubt into his confessionby offering the patently… Read more.
Here, in part, is how A-Rod attempted to rationalize and excuse his use of steroids yesterday afternoon in an interview with ESPN: When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and… Read more.
The world of Major League Baseball reacted with shock and indignation (again) last weekend after Sports Illustrated outed Alex Rodriguez as one of 104 players who tested positive for steroids in 2003. Rodriguez of course is the New York Yankees’ third baseman, the highest-paid player in baseball (having signed a new 10-year contract just a year ago for… Read more.
