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October 8, 2008 12:48:44 AM CDT



Alex Rodriguez track this thread

Started by D Lim; Last updated Feb 20, 08 10:56 PM CST by D Lim | View history

Alex Rodriguez

Baseball's bestâ??and best-compensatedâ??player is a sports page fixture, with eye-popping numbers but no championships to show for them

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  • September 2008
    • A-Rod Divorce Battle Ends Peacefully

      A-Rod Divorce Battle Ends Peacefully

      (Newser) - The mud-slinging A-Rod divorce battle has ended amicably, reports the New York Daily News . Alex and Cynthia Rodriquez ended their 5-year marriage with a private settlement, said the attorney for the Yankees slugger, who offered no details. Cynthia filed for divorce in July, citing her hubby's "long period of infidelity" with mistresses including Madonna, whom Cynthia accused of brainwashing A-Rod with Jewish mysticism. More »

    • First Replay Call Confirms A-Rod Homer

      First Replay Call Confirms A-Rod Homer

      (Newser) - Major League Baseball's first-ever use of instant replay to settle a call backed a 9th-inning homer from Alex Rodriguez last night at Tropicana Field. Umpires checked the Yankee slugger's drive on a monitor after a protest from Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon, and upheld the original fair call, Newsday reports. More »

  • July 2008
    • A-Rod Wants Prenup Enforced

      A-Rod Wants Prenup Enforced

      (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 Florida is a no-fault divorce state, making the matter "immaterial and impertinent." More »

    • A-Rod Signs With Hollywood Agency

      A-Rod Signs With Hollywood Agency

      (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 Wade, and Kevin Garnett. More »

    • Baseball's All-Miscreant Team

      Baseball's All-Miscreant Team

      (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 affair with a 19-year-old became public. Divorce ensued. 1B: Yankees star Jason Giambi copped to steroid use before a grand jury in 2003, and apologized vaguely in '07. More »

    • Madonna 'Loves' A-Rod Scandal

      Madonna 'Loves' A-Rod Scandal

      (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 »

    • A-Rod's Ex-Agent Plays Peacemaker

      A-Rod's Ex-Agent Plays Peacemaker

      (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. Boras "seems to be there with the blessing of the Yankees' front office," one source said, which "welcomes anyone who can get A-Rod's mind back onto baseball." More »

    • A-Rod Passes Mantle's HR Record

      A-Rod Passes Mantle's HR Record

      (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 after the game, when he heard about Murcer's death, reports the New York Times. More »

    • Cynthia 'Not Out to Mutilate' A-Rod

      Cynthia 'Not Out to Mutilate' A-Rod

      (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: “I needed to get away. … My husband knew I was going. He encouraged it." More »

    • Lenny Livid Over C-Rod Rumors

      Lenny Livid Over C-Rod Rumors

      (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 Madonna and A-Rod,” his two other clients. More »

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

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

      (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 was away, the friend says, she also prevented the third baseman from seeing his children. More »

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

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

      (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 »

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

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

      (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 dissolution of the marriage, filed this morning in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court. More »

    • Miffed Madonna Denies Divorce, A-Rod Affair

      Miffed Madonna Denies Divorce, A-Rod Affair

      (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.” Meanwhile A-Rod’s wife, who says Madonna used Kabbalah to brainwash him, plans to file for divorce today, according to her attorney. More »

    • Jilted Wife: Madonna Cast Spell on A-Rod

      Jilted Wife: Madonna Cast Spell on A-Rod

      (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 arts are involved. “I feel like Madonna is using mind control over him,” she told one friend. More »

    • Wife Ditches A-Rod for Lenny Kravitz

      Wife Ditches A-Rod for Lenny Kravitz

      (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, leaving their two young daughters in the care of others in Miami, the Post says. More »

  • May 2008