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NEWS ABOUT: Alex Rodriguez

Alex Rodriguez stories: 158 news summaries

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 A-Rod Wants Prenup Enforced 

Slugger's lawyers call cheating allegations 'immaterial'

Jul 31, 08 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alex Rodriguez plans to ask the Florida courts to enforce the prenup he and estranged wife, Cynthia, signed, the Daily News reports. The Yankee slugger acknowledges their marriage is “irretrievably broken” and wants the courts to disregard his soon-to-be-ex's allegations of "extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct" because... More »

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Florida • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • celebrity divorces


 Brother's
 Ghost
 Writer:
 Madonna

Singer's goal: concert ticket sales

Jul 28, 08 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Christopher Ciccone’s perfectly timed book, Life with My Sister Madonna, may have had a world-famous ghost writer: the Material Girl herself. In a bid to sell concert tickets, Madonna "actually ghost-wrote parts of it with him,” an insider tells the New York Post. “That's why there's... More »

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Alex Rodriguez • ghostwrite • Madonna • ticket sales • celebrity tell-alls • concert tour • Christopher Ciccone

 A-Rod Signs With
 Hollywood Agency 

Slugger joins growing ranks of sports figures courted by Tinseltown talent agents

Jul 22, 08 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alex Rodriguez has signed up with the William Morris Agency, the Wall Street Journal reports, as Hollywood's biggest talent agencies look to draft major sports stars onto their rosters. Rodriguez will join clients like Quentin Tarantino and Eminem at William Morris, along with sports figures such as Serena Williams, Dwyane... More »

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Hollywood • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • baseball • William Morris

GLOSSIES

 Baseball's All-Miscreant Team 

A-Rod makes Radar's list, of course; Bonds, Giambi, Lo Duca join him

Jul 15, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - With baseball's All-Stars set to take the field at Yankee Stadium, Radar uses the occasion (and the fact that one is the tabloids' current fixation) to name its All-Morally Inept Team:
  • C: Paul Lo Duca, then with the Mets, got the full New York treatment in 2006, when his
... More »

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Barry Bonds • Brett Myers • Alex Rodriguez • Jason Giambi • Yankee Stadium • Miguel Tejada • Jeff Kent • Milton Bradley • Paul LoDuca • Shawn Chacon • Elijah Dukes • MLB All-Star Game

 Madonna 'Loves' A-Rod Scandal 

Singer may attend All-Star Game

Jul 15, 08 11:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Madonna is reveling in the attention she's getting from the Alex Rodriguez scandal and is considering fueling the frenzy by attending today's All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, the New York Post reports. "She doesn't care about the press it will get—she loves it,” a friend said. More »

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New York City • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • publicity stunt • Yankee Stadium • Madonna • celebrity divorces • Guy Ritchie

 A-Rod's
 Ex-Agent
 Plays Peacemaker 

Couple meets in Toronto as Cynthia brings daughter to see Yankees star

Jul 14, 08 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scott Boras, fired by Alex Rodriguez over the winter, is trying to play peacemaker between the Yankees star and his estranged wife, the New York Daily News reports. Boras met with the couple over the weekend in Toronto, where Cynthia Rodriguez had brought daughter Natasha, 3, to visit her father.... More »

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Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • Scott Boras • Toronto • celebrity divorces

 A-Rod Passes
 Mantle's HR Record 

Yankee slams 537th homer on emotional day for team

Jul 13, 08 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alex Rodriguez smashed a 3-2 pitch from Toronto's Brian Tallet into the foul pole to claim his 537th career home run yesterday, surpassing Micky Mantle's record on the day Yankee great Bobby Murcer died. The All-Star didn't realize he had moved into 13th place on the all-time homer list until... More »

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MLB • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Toronto Blue Jays • home run • Mickey Mantle • baseball

 Cynthia 'Not Out 
 to Mutilate' A-Rod 

Slugger's wife denies spending spree, takes high road in spilling to Post's Adams

Jul 10, 08 11:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cynthia Rodriguez says she’s “not out to mutilate” husband Alex Rodriguez and while she considers her marriage to the New York Yankees star over, she’ll be there for him when he cracks up, she tells Post columnist Cindy Adams. Of reports on her escape to Paris: “... More »

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New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • Paris • affair • celebrity divorces • Cindy Adams

 Lenny Livid Over C-Rod Rumors 

Blames ex-manager for dragging him into A-Rod-Madonna fiasco

Jul 9, 08 10:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lenny Kravitz is outraged his name has been dragged into the Alex and Cynthia Rodriguez divorce drama and blames the whole mess on former manager Guy Oseary, the New York Post reports. The rocker fired Oseary after A-Rod’s former trainer told him Oseary was about to “pimp out... More »

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Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • Paris • Madonna • celebrity divorces • Lenny Kravitz

C-Rod to A-Rod: Payback's a $100K Paris Shopping Spree

Pal: Cynthia got loose with Yank's credit card

Jul 8, 08 3:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Whatever the intricacies of Alex Rodriguez's maybe-affair with Madonna, soon-to-be-ex Cynthia Rodriguez didn't get mad—she went shopping. “She's been spending wildly," one of A-Rod’s friends tells the New York Daily News. "She spent close to $100,000 on her jaunt to Paris." While she... More »

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shopping • Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • Paris • Madonna • celebrity divorces

Wife: A-Rod, Madonna Had 'Affair of the Heart'

Betrayed spouse's lawyer says infidelity wasn't physical

Jul 8, 08 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alex Rodriguez’s relationship with Madonna amounted to “an affair of the heart,” not physical infidelity, his estranged wife's lawyer tells People. A-Rod had dinners with his sweetie, constantly listened to her music, and dumped his agent for her Kabbalah-loving manager, the New York Post reports. More »

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New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • celebrity • affair • infidelity • Madonna • Kabbalah • celebrity divorces

 A-Rod's Wife
 Files for Divorce,
 Citing Infidelity 

Yankees star 'emotionally abandoned his wife and children,' petition says

Jul 7, 08 10:49 AM CDT
(AP) - Alex Rodriguez's wife filed for divorce today, calling her husband an adulterer who "emotionally abandoned his wife and children," but naming no names. "The marriage of the parties is irretrievably broken because of the husband's extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct," claimed Cynthia Rodriguez's petition for... More »

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New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • infidelity • celebrity divorces

Miffed Madonna Denies Divorce, A-Rod Affair

Material Girl scoffs at hunky Yank rumors as his wife files for divorce

Jul 7, 08 6:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Madonna has blasted reports that she’s having an affair with Yankees star A-Rod and divorcing Guy Ritchie. “My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce,” she said in a statement to People. “I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez.... More »

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Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • celebrity • affair • Madonna • Kabbalah • celebrity divorces • Guy Ritchie

OPINION

 How to Avoid Mr. Wrong 

As wacky breakups abound, Dowd goes in search of rules of engagement

Jul 6, 08 2:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Celebrity couples aren't always models of marital stability, but as Christie Brinkley, A-Rod, and Madonna join forces to hold the planet hostage, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd goes off in search of those telltale signs of who to avoid ending up at the altar with. She finds her answers... More »

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divorce • marriage • Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • Madonna • celebrity divorces • Guy Ritchie • Christie Brinkley • Peter Cook

Jilted Wife: Madonna Cast Spell on A-Rod

Spouse accuses Material Girl of luring slugger with Kabbalah

Jul 4, 08 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cynthia Rodriguez thinks that Madonna has broken up her marriage with the power of mysticism, friends of Yankee Alex Rodriguez's wife tell the Daily News. She apparently found a note in which the slugger calls Madonna his “true soulmate” and is convinced they're having an affair—and that dark... More »

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Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • celebrity • affair • Madonna • Kabbalah • celebrity divorces • Lenny Kravitz

 Wife Ditches A-Rod
 for Lenny Kravitz 

Cynthia Rodriguez at rocker's Paris pad

Jul 3, 08 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - While rumors swirl over Alex Rodgriguez's late nights with Madonna, the Yankee's wife has ditched him for rocker Lenny Kravitz, the New York Post claims. Cynthia Rodriguez, who has yet to file divorce papers, has spent the past four nights shacked up with the Grammy-winner at his pad in Paris,... More »

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New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • Paris • affair • celebrity divorces • Lenny Kravitz

A-Rod Keeping Madonna Company

Mag reports late-night visits; Material Girl's rep says nothing doing

Jul 2, 08 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - With her marriage to Guy Ritchie reportedly on the rocks, Madonna is entertaining nighttime visits from hunky Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, US Weekly reports. A-Rod has dropped by the singer’s New York apartment several times and left “as late as midnight,” a source said, but the Material... More »

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divorce • New York City • Alex Rodriguez • celebrity • affair • Madonna • celebrity divorces • Guy Ritchie

 The Best 
 Athlete on 
 the Planet 

WSJ panel picks Czech decathlete Sebrle to represent Earth at Intergalactic Games

Jun 20, 08 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - If Earth could only send one guy to a galactic Olympics, who would it be? The Wall Street Journal had a panel of sports experts hash it out, and its top 10 might surprise:
  1. Roman Sebrle: Czech decathlon champion wins on versatility.
  2. LeBron James: What can’
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LeBron James • Sidney Crosby • Floyd Mayweather Jr. • Roger Federer • Alex Rodriguez • list • athlete • LaDainian Tomlinson • Ronaldinho • Olympic Games • Liu Xiang • Roman Seberle • Jeremy Wariner

 Instant Replay Will Settle This 

Botched calls spark support for review of close plays

May 31, 08 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Baseball's top umpire says instant replay is on the way, the Houston Chronicle reports. Support for it is growing after four blown calls robbed home runs, but umpire supervisor Rich Rieker warns that the technology must be added "in a fashion that will not delay the game further." More »

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MLB • Alex Rodriguez • instant replay • Carlos Delgado • umpires • Ben Francisco • Rich Rieker • bad calls

OPINION

How TV, Money Robbed Sports Fans—and Journos

Playing field used to be level enough for writers to give true portraits

May 23, 08 6:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The days when journalists could get to know professional athletes well enough to write the kinds of profiles that would give fans true insight are long gone, Pat Jordan laments on Slate, with television and the accompanying big money the main culprits. Where Jordan once spent days with Catfish Hunter,... More »

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television • Barry Bonds • Josh Beckett • Alex Rodriguez • celebrity • sports journalism • Pat Jordan • Catfish Hunter

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