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Alex Rodriguez Suspended Through 2014
Major League Baseball announced it will suspend Alex Rodriguez for the remainder of this season and all of 2014 for his role in the Biogenesis scandal. It becomes effective Thursday. That's 211 games, by far the longest PED suspension ever handed out by baseball. He will appeal, and is expected to b...
Alex Rodriguez To Be Suspended, Start For The Yankees Anyway
Happy A-Rod Christmas, everyone! If everything proceeds as expected, around noon today Major League Baseball will announce that Alex Rodriguez is suspended through the end of the 2014 season. Then, just a few hours later, Alex Rodriguez will make his season debut for the Yankees. ...
The Yankees Expect To Have Alex Rodriguez In The Lineup Monday
The Yankees expect to have A-Rod on Monday against the White Sox because they believe he will be suspended under the Joint Drug Agreement and not under the CBA, as MLB had previously threatened (Update: Joel Sherman is now reporting that the Yankees have been informed he will be suspended tomorrow a...
ESPN: Alex Rodriguez Will Be Suspended Through 2014 Season On Monday
The Bud Selig wingtip that has been hovering over Alex Rodriguez for months will finally fall on Monday, ESPN's T.J. Quinn and Andrew Marchand report, in the form of a suspension that will last into and "likely through" the 2014 season....
A-Rod Is Negotiating With MLB Or Getting A 214-Game Ban. Who Knows?
Right now Alex Rodriguez is—depending on who you believe—either a dude trying to maximize his own leverage in a legal dispute with MLB and, implicitly, the New York Yankees, or a craven villain with whom the stout-hearted figures of central baseball are just plain tired of dealing. He may be engaged...
11-Year-Old American Soccer Prodigy Joins Real Madrid
Rejoice, America, for we finally have our soccer savior. He's 11. His name is Joshua....
Photoshop Contest: A-Rod Out On The Town
If you happened to see A-Rod dawdling around Florida in recent weeks, we still want your submissions. But it's a summer Friday, and while we all wait for MLB to decide on A-Rod's punishment, let's see what other kinds of situations we can put him in....
How (And Why) To Defend A-Rod: A Live Chat With Sports Law Experts
Any day/hour/minute now we'll find out just how long Alex Rodriguez and his smaller-antlered ilk will be on Bud Selig's wall. While we wait, we've assembled a group of sports law experts to mount a defense of A-Rod, explain the potential outcomes based on the various modes of punishment available, a...
Here's A-Rod Looking Miserable As He Poses For A Photo With Fans
Our tireless quest to track A-Rod as he moped his way around Florida continues....
A-Rod Now Has To Listen As Religious Zealots Harangue Him On The Field
Don't worry too much about A-Rod, you guys. According to his former third-base coach's wife, he's ready to be saved by God, or something....
Is It A-Rod Christmas Yet?
Today's the day! (Maybe not. Probably not. [...But maybe?])...
Oh, Nothing. Just A-Rod Outside A Starbucks, Lurking.
The tipster who sent this to us says it was taken about two hours ago at a Starbucks on Howard Avenue in Tampa. Look at A-Rod just sittin' there, right outside by the window. He's checkin' his phone, he's playin' with his ear. It's like he's got all the time in the world....
Buck Showalter Says The Yankees Win If A-Rod Is Suspended
The Yankees want Alex Rodriguez to be suspended for life. They can say all the right things, but it's obvious and understandable they want him to go away and never come back. (Four years and $86 million remaining will have that effect.) So—is it fair if they get their wish?...
Report: A-Rod Considering Settlement
MLB has made it clear to Alex Rodriguez and anyone willing to listen that a lifetime ban was possible for his connection to Biogenesis. Hours after MLB's final and most emphatic threat, A-Rod and his representatives are trying to negotiate a settlement for a "lengthy suspension" to avoid such a poss...
Alex Rodriguez Ate At Hooters
TMZ is exclusively reporting that Alex Rodriguez—baseball's Alex Rodriguez—and a lady-friend had lunch at Hooters over the weekend. Soak it in, folks; this is it. This is what rock bottom looks like. ...