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Don't Count A-Rod's Homers: Wells

Ex-pitcher slams 'roid use, wants cheaters banned for good

May 17, 09 6:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former Yankees pitcher David Wells said slugger Alex Rodriguez should lose home runs for taking steroids, and other drug cheaters ought to be banned permanently, the New York Daily News reports. Wells made his comments as a play-by-play analyst at today's Yankees game. "It sucks because of the fact... More »

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steroids • MLB • Alex Rodriguez • David Wells • Jay-ZTV

'Embarrassed'
Manny 'Beat Up'
Over Test: Torre

Suspended slugger
may face team on
road trip next week

May 10, 09 6:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Suspended slugger Manny Ramirez is "embarrassed" and "still beat up" over his failed drug test and 50-game suspension, Joe Torre told the Los Angeles Times. "It's not that he thinks it's unfair," Torre added. The Dodgers skipper talked to Ramirez yesterday. A source... More »

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steroids • Manny Ramirez • Joe Torre • Los Angeles Dodgers • baseball • Jay-ZTV

(AP) - Alex Rodriguez walked to the plate, and a dozen fans behind the screen swung into action. Holding up giant, foam syringes, they started with the taunts. Rodriguez answered them, all right. Back in the big leagues, the Yankees star launched the first pitch he saw deep into the left-field seats... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • home run • baseball • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

 Manny's 
 Drug 
 Excuses 
 Don't Wash 

Suspended slugger looks set to join baseball's hall of infamy

May 8, 09 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The only Hall of Fame that Manny Ramirez is now likely to find himself in is the one for lame excuses, Phil Rogers writes in the Chicago Tribune. Unless Ramirez, who says he flunked a drug test because of "a personal health issue," wanted to get pregnant or... More »

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steroids • Manny Ramirez • Los Angeles Dodgers • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs

(Newser) - Manny Ramirez has tested positive for a banned substance and will be suspended for 50 games beginning immediately, the Los Angeles Times reports. Reports have identified the substance as HCG, a drug commonly used to treat female infertility but also taken to raise testosterone levels at the end of steroid... More »

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steroids • MLB • Manny Ramirez • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Los Angeles Dodgers • drug test • performance-enhancing drugs • sexual enhancement

OPINION

A-Rod Bio Author 'Feminist Version of Al Sharpton' 

Sourcing is questionable, writers has credibility issues

May 6, 09 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Selena Roberts’ new book makes many claims about Alex Rodriguez: He juiced in high school, tipped off opposing batters to pitches, and is even a stingy tipper. Roberts’ sourcing is scanty and anonymous, but we can trust her, a respected journalist for Sports Illustrated and formerly the New York Times,... More »

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steroids • MLB • Al Sharpton • Alex Rodriguez • Sports Illustrated • baseball • Jason Whitlock • Selena Roberts

 A-Rod Juiced 
 in School, on 
 Yankees: Book 

Sources tell author slugger used in high school and after NY transfer

Apr 30, 09 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - An explosive new book probing deep into A-Rod's career suggests the slugger has failed to fully come clean about his steroid use, the New York Daily News reports. Rodriguez insists he only used steroids as a Texas Ranger, but the book quotes sources who believe he was juicing both as... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs

UPDATED

 Steroids Didn't Kill 
 21 Polo Horses: Vet 

21 animals lost in mystery affliction

Apr 20, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The death of 21 horses in Florida for the US Open Polo Championship yesterday remains a mystery, but a veterinarian for the Venezuelan team that owned the horses said it was unlikely they were killed by a bad reaction to steroids, the Palm Beach Post reports. "Almost certainly they... More »

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sports • steroids • horse • death • animal • polo • drugs in sports

 14 Horses Drop 
 Dead Before 
 Polo Match 

Sources believe they reacted to tainted steroid cocktail

Apr 20, 09 2:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - A mystery death claimed the lives of 14 horses from a Venezuelan team yesterday shortly before they were to compete in the US Open Polo Championship in Florida. The $100,000 horses suddenly struggled to breathe as vets fought to revive them, the Palm Beach Post reports. Onlookers wept after... More »

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steroids • horse racing • horse • animal • polo • US Open Polo Championship

(Newser) - Players like Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth inspired America to endure the Great Depression, but with the season kicking off tonight, can overpaid and steroid-ridden players still mean something in hard times? Eric Spitznagel hits the spring training circuit for Vanity Fair to find out—and puts the question to... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Babe Ruth • recession • Lou Gehrig • baseball • American

(Newser) - Jason Gay interviewed Alex Rodriguez just a day before his past dalliances with performance-enhancing drugs were uncovered, he writes in Details. A-Rod knew what was coming, but the star was more concerned that his favorite Madonna song not be published, for fear of it being played at away games.... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Madonna • baseball • scandal • interview

(Newser) - Mark McGwire speaks! Just not about steroids. The former home-run king granted a rare interview to the New York Times to talk about his reemergence in baseball—as a volunteer hitting instructor. “I’m such an easygoing guy,” he said in a brief reference to his steroids scandal.... More »

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steroids • hitting • Mark McGwire • sports doping • baseball

 Drugs Found 
 on Clemens' 
 Injection Kit 

Lawyer says McNamee must have planted evidence

Mar 10, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal investigators have found traces of banned, performance-enhancing substances on the paraphernalia Brian McNamee used to inject Roger Clemens, the New York Times reports. Clemens’ DNA was found on at least one of the syringes last month, but the pitcher says he was only injected with Vitamin B12 and... More »

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steroids • Roger Clemens • Brian McNamee • performance-enhancing drugs

OPINION




 A-Rod's Top 
 Foot-in-Mouth 
 Moments 

Meet baseball's future home run, and dumb statement king

Mar 5, 09 11:34 AM CST
(Newser) - He has 553 career home runs, and almost as many embarrassing verbal blunders. The New York Daily News counts down its favorite Alex Rodriguez foot-in-mouth moments, Among them:             
  • “I knew we weren’t taking Tic-Tacs.
... More »

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steroids • Alex Rodriguez • Derek Jeter • gaffe • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs

(Newser) - The perjury trial of baseball’s home-run king won’t begin Monday as scheduled, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, with federal prosecutors today delaying—perhaps by months—the start so they can appeal a ruling that excluded what they view as key evidence against Barry Bonds. Reports of positive steroids... More »

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steroids • Barry Bonds • perjury • obstruction of justice • Greg Anderson • Susan Illston

 Over Boos, 
 A-Rod Homers 
 in Spring Opener 

He played until fifth inning against Blue Jays

Feb 25, 09 4:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Despite the cacophony of boos, cheers, and cat calls hurled his way, Alex Rodriguez hit a two-run home run today in his first spring-training game for the New York Yankees, the AP reports. The maligned third baseman played until the fifth inning at the Toronto Blue Jays’ ballpark—his first... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • sports doping • baseball • spring training

investigation

 A-Rod Buddy 
 Is MLB Pariah 


Feb 20, 09 2:12 PM CST
(Newser) - A man who was once a close associate of Alex Rodriguez is suspected of trafficking in steroids and has been banned from non-public areas of big-league ballparks since 2001, the New York Daily News reports. Angel Presinal, called "an unsavory character" by one source, has been close... More »

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steroids • MLB • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Juan Gonzalez • baseball • Yuri Sucart • Angel Presinal


 Wrestler's 
 Steroid Dealer 
 Busted—for Steroids 

Actor had bit part in film

Feb 20, 09 9:30 AM CST
(Newser) - In a case of life imitating art, the actor who plays a steroid dealer in The Wrestler was busted for dealing steroids, the New York Daily News reports. Investigators had Scott Siegel under surveillance for steroid trafficking, and arrested him Wednesday night after a car chase that ended with Siegel... More »

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steroids • anabolic steroids • celebrity • drug dealing • arrest • actor • The Wrestler

Cousin Who Helped A-Rod Juice Identified

Yuri Sucart described as A-Rod's lap dog

Feb 19, 09 12:56 PM CST
(Newser) - The cousin who injected Alex Rodriguez with steroids has been identified as Yuri Sucart, a longtime friend and confidant of the disgraced Yankee, ESPN reports. The previously anonymous relative, whom A-Rod refused to identify during his mea-culpa news conference Tuesday, is too devoted to Rodriguez to have stopped him, friends... More »

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sports • steroids • MLB • Alex Rodriguez • cousins • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs • Yuri Sucart

(Newser) - Now that some of baseball's biggest names are coming clean on steroids, Jose Canseco is wondering when the league will apologize for vilifying him, the AP reports. The former slugger wrote two books that dealt with juiced players, but he got only grief for his efforts. "It's time for... More »

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steroids • Jose Canseco • apology • sports doping • baseball • Juiced

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