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Injured Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez will not be suspended over illegal poker allegations, according to Major League Baseball officials.

“Even if it is determined that he was [playing illegal poker], he will not be suspended at this time for this infraction,” a source said. “He will be warned again and not lightly.”

From Nypost.com:

League officials have been probing Rodriguez’s alleged poker playing, reports of which first surfaced early last month.

But the source told The Post that, unless Rodriguez admits to some other more serious infraction, he will not be suspended for any of the activities that so far have been alleged.

Although MLB objects to the behavior, the league apparently does not feel that it is serious enough to suspend Rodriguez for any period of time.

They will give him a serious warning to stay out of that kind of game, the source said. The new warning will come after the league previously cautioned the star slugger about his card playing in 2005.

A-Rod, through his spokesman, denied playing in the games.

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The baseball commissioner, Bud Selig, has issued a warning that Alex Rodriguez could face a suspension in the wake of his admission about use of performance enhancing drugs.

In an interview with USA Today, Selig said, “It was against the law, so I would have to think about that,” Selig told the newspaper. “It’s very hard. I’ve got to think about all that kind of stuff.”

From Espnstar.com:

One obstacle to meting out punishment for the New York Yankees‘ third baseman is the time frame of his admitted guilt.

Steroids and human growth hormone officially were placed on baseball’s banned substance prior to the 2004 season so any attempt to penalise a player for an infraction beforehand would almost certainly be challenged by the players union.

“I would be surprised if there was an attempt to do it,” said Donald Fehr, the union’s executive director.

Rodriguez admitted his use of steroids in an interview with ESPN on Monday – two days after Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003.

According to the report, Rodriguez’s name appeared on a list of 104 players who tested positive during a survey conducted by Major League Baseball in 2003.

Selig also remarked that he is mulling reinstating Hank Aaron as career home run leader of baseball.

Alex Rodriguez, one of the most famous sportsmen in America, has been embroiled in a drug scandal. The star player for the New York Yankees has been accused of testing positive for steroid abuse.

Rodriguez, known for slugging home runs and rumors that he was recently dating Madonna, has been accused for testing positive for steroid abuse in 2003 in a series of drug tests carried out then, the results of which had been kept secret.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Sports Illustrated’s story claims that four different sources have confirmed that Rodriguez tested positive for steroids, along with 104 other baseball players who were also caught in the sweep but whose names were not revealed. Asked by the magazine if the allegations were true, Rodriguez declined to comment. “I’m not saying anything,” he said.

If true, the revelations will damage a sport that prides itself on being “America’s pastime” and has a special place in the national psyche. It will also be a blow to one of the game’s most talented players, who is widely expected to one day be the best-ever home-run hitter.

At the time the tests were carried out there were no penalties for a positive result, though steroids had been banned in baseball since 1991. The tests were done in secret in order to gather evidence to see whether mandatory testing needed to be introduced into the game.

However, the list of players who got positive results later became part of a court case when an illegal steroid ring in the sport was busted by the police. The list is still in a sealed court document, but Sports Illustrated said it had spoken to four people who knew its contents.

It is worth noting here that A-Rod was not on George Mitchell’s list, but many top players have come under suspicion over the years, most notably Barry Bonds.

One of the most famous sportsmen in America, Alex Rodriguez, has been left embroiled in a drug scandal. Popularly known as A-Rod, the star player for the New York Yankees has been accused of testing positive for steroid abuse.

Rodriguez has been accused of testing positive for steroid abuse in 2003 in a series of drug tests carried out then, the results of which had been kept secret.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Sports Illustrated’s story claims that four different sources have confirmed that Rodriguez tested positive for steroids, along with 104 other baseball players who were also caught in the sweep but whose names were not revealed. Asked by the magazine if the allegations were true, Rodriguez declined to comment. “I’m not saying anything,” he said.

If true, the revelations will damage a sport that prides itself on being “America’s pastime” and has a special place in the national psyche. It will also be a blow to one of the game’s most talented players, who is widely expected to one day be the best-ever home-run hitter.

At the time the tests were carried out there were no penalties for a positive result, though steroids had been banned in baseball since 1991. The tests were done in secret in order to gather evidence to see whether mandatory testing needed to be introduced into the game.

However, the list of players who got positive results later became part of a court case when an illegal steroid ring in the sport was busted by the police. The list is still in a sealed court document, but Sports Illustrated said it had spoken to four people who knew its contents.

A-Rod was not on the original list of George Mitchell that put many players such as Barry Bonds under suspicion over the years.

Yankees officials reach out to representatives of their star slugger Alex Rodriguez after learning about initiation of investigations against a Canadian-based doctor named Anthony Galea for being a possible distributor of performance enhancing drugs.

The officials were curious to find out if A-Rod had ever had any dealings with Galea.

From NYTimes.com:

The Yankees were particularly concerned, said a person in baseball with knowledge of what occurred, because Rodriguez was monitored by a chiropractor last season who had worked closely with Galea in the past. The monitoring was part of the follow-up to Rodriguez’s hip surgery last March, and the apparent link to Galea made the Yankees nervous.

So, the person said, the inquiry went out to Rodriguez’s representatives: Did the third baseman — the highest-paid player in baseball — have any interactions with Galea? And the answer came back: No.

Now, however, those same Yankees officials are not sure what to think.

On Monday, Rodriguez told reporters at the team’s spring training facility in Tampa, Fla., that he had been contacted by federal authorities seeking to interview him in connection with their investigation of Galea.

Based in Toronto, Galea has been charged by Canadian authorities with conspiring to smuggle human growth hormone and other drugs into the United States.

Rays manager Joe Maddon said before Thursday’s game against the Tigers that the reason why A-Rod’s 600th career home run didn’t elicited an overwhelming interest compared to the past is because the name of Alex Rodriguez was associated with performance enhancing drugs.

It is believed by some experts that absence of interest by baseball fans in A-Rod’s record is probably due to the fact that Sammy Sosa and Ken Griffey Jr. both reached 600 in the past decade.

From NYdailynews.com:

“Because of all the subplots involved, I think that’s why you’re not getting as much of a build-up,” the Rays manager said before Thursday’s game against the Tigers. “I don’t think that it’s worn off. I think when Jim Thome arrives nearer that point you’re going to see the same kind of previous build-up, I believe, as an example. I think based on the revelations of the last couple years, I think it probably detracts from it a bit.”

Wade Davis, Friday night’s scheduled Rays starter, has allowed two home runs to A-Rod – one on the last day of the 2009 season at Tropicana Field, then another this past May 19 in the Bronx.

It is a greater challenge for A-Rod than it is for others, Davis said.

The star third-baseman for the New York Yankees and baseball’s highest-paid player, Alex Rodriguez, who recently attained the magical figure of 600 career home runs, has been accused of making use of steroids.

The game of baseball seems to have absolutely no respite from accusations of use of steroids and the history seems to be repeating itself.

From News.bbc.co.uk:

Timed to coincide with the opening of Bonds’s trial for perjury in telling a federal grand jury he had never taken steroids, Sports Illustrated broke the story on their website, saying Rodriguez had tested positive in 2003 for both testosterone and for the “designer steroid” primobolan.

The drugs were not banned in baseball at the time, although primobolan has never been authorised even for prescription use in the US.

The testing, which covered all 1,198 major league players, had been agreed with the players’ association to determine the extent of drug use in the game: if more than 5% of the players tested positive, it would trigger the instituting of mandatory random tests in 2004.

Nearly 9%, or 104 players, tested positive, though their identities were supposed to remain secret and no punishments were called for.

Confronted by SI.com reporter Selena Roberts in Miami, Rodriguez passed up the chance to comment on the report. “You’ll have to talk to the union,” he said. “I’m not saying anything.”

A-Rod has remains a style icon and idol for many ever since he entered the world of professional baseball by moving from high school in Miami to the Seattle Mariners.

Alex Rodriguez, popularly known as A-Rod, would have never realized how much he missed baseball had he didn’t watched the All-Star Game on television last year.

Rodriguez seems like he missed it nonetheless despite his life getting in turmoil like the spring steroids scandal and his comeback from hip surgery in the recent past.

From NYdailynews.com:

“I’m just so happy to be here,” Rodriguez said Monday. “Last year, I didn’t like not being here, but I had gone through a lot of stuff. Being here gives me a lot of perspective of how different I am as a person and as a teammate from 500 home runs to hopefully 600 home runs. To find some perspective in that, it’s pretty interesting.”

That perspective dates back to February 2009, when Rodriguez was outed as a former user of performance-enhancing drugs, a scandal that sullied his reputation as one of the game’s greats. A-Rod’s Tampa press conference to discuss the PED issue raised more questions than it answered, sparking a daily cycle in which more details were revealed about his sordid past.

Then came the hip surgery in early-March 2009 that derailed his spring and cost him the first month of the season, leading some to ask if he would ever again return to his All-Star form. Rodriguez went on to hit 30 home runs and drive in 100 runs last season, but it wasn’t until he helped lead the Yankees to the World Series title last fall that the superstar was able to truly put his contentious year behind him.

Andy Pettitte believes A-Rod was always a part of the All-Star game and it feels like this is the right place where he always belonged.

The Cardinals’ hitting coach, Mark McGwire, remarked in the visiting dugout at Citi Field that he has moved on from the steroid era and does not want to answer any more questions about steroids or from where he got them during his illustrious career spanning 16 years. When asked, McGwire said he will not be judging Alex Rodriguez in his quest for 600 home runs.

McGwire was welcomed back into the Cardinals’ fold in downtown St. Louis during a fan fest.

From NYdailynews.com:

But that was apparently one of the last times McGwire would address his steroid use. Yesterday, when asked if a man named Curtis Wenzlaff provided him with steroids, McGwire responded that he had already “answered all those questions.” Wenzlaff was first identified by the Daily News in 2005, days before the congressional hearing, as the man who provided Big Mac with a powerful array of performance-enhancing drugs early in his career with Oakland. Two FBI sources confirmed the Wenzlaff information, which stemmed from the seminal FBI steroid investigation called “Operation Equine,” carried out in the late ’80s and early ’90s. McGwire’s name surfaced during Equine along with that of A’s teammate Jose Canseco, but the FBI was targeting dealers, not users.

McGwire socked 583 home runs in his career, including a then single-season record 70 in 1998. He admitted in January that his steroid use included the ‘98 season. For the past four years he’s been on the Hall of Fame ballot, McGwire has fallen well short of the 75% vote needed to be elected to Cooperstown. McGwire said that decision is “out of my control.”

It is worth remembering here that McGwire came clean about his long-time use of steroids in January during a televised interview with Bob Costas.