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Sports Central
August 2, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
A-Rod's Fate May Provide Once-Unlikely Opportunities It's not a question of "if" but "when" the hammer drops on Alex Rodriguez. But it is a question of just what the hammer's head will be made of that keeps observers examining A-Rod's, and baseball's, pending fate.   |
Sports Central
February 11, 2009
Jeff Kallman |
A-Rod Agonistes With the New York Yankees, there's no such thing as a subdued season, and it isn't as though they've gone untouched by the long arm of actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances. |
Sports Central
January 13, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
A-Rod Agonistes, the Final Chapter? We could see a 2014 baseball season and maybe more without Alex Rodriguez, after all. |
Sports Central
February 27, 2009
Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: A-Rod: HG "H" For "Honesty" Coming "clean" has never been so dirty. |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2009
Allen St. John |
Alex Rodriguez's Drug of Choice: A Close Look at Primobolan and Its Effects Since the shocking report of Alex Rodriguez using performance-enhancing drugs, there has been little of how he might have benefited. Here's a closer look at the drug that was discovered in A-Rod's urine samples. |
Sports Central
February 25, 2009
Bill Hazell |
A-Rod and the Steroid Era It seems that many want to pretend that they were not surprised by the admission of one Alex Rodriguez that he injected steroids |
Sports Central
December 15, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
The Epitome of Hubris At a time when Major League Baseball could really use its players to promote a positive image, two of its biggest stars -- Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez -- choose to take the easiest route to earn the quickest return without including the community or its children. |
Sports Central
August 6, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Monday, Bloody Monday A-Rod's going to appeal his suspension, maybe with an eye toward bringing it somewhere in the middle of the handed-down 211 baseball games and Ryan Braun's 65. |
Salon.com
April 17, 2001
King Kaufman |
The $252 million man Why does every single story about Alex Rodriguez have to mention the Rangers star's salary? |
| AskMen.com |
Ramirez Suspended For Drug Violation Ramirez is the most prominent suspended under the drug policy players and owners put in place seven years ago. |
Sports Central
April 10, 2006
Adam Russell |
Bonds, Rose Deserve Similar Punishment A number of comparisons can be drawn between the current Bonds situation and Pete Rose's of the late 1980s. One of them is the argument regarding the game's "integrity." |
AskMen.com
June 7, 2013
Dave Golokhov |
Biogenesis Steroid Scandal We want to believe that everyone is clean and that athletes are playing fair. As today shows us -- once again -- the hard truth is quite different. It will always be that way. |
Sports Central
June 20, 2007
Joe Boesch |
Giambi Shouldn't Be the MLB Scapegoat But he may have opened his mouth too much this time on the issue of steroids. |
Salon.com
December 20, 2000
Allen Barra |
The Alex Rodriguez FAQ Is he worth all that money? Will these giant contracts ever stop? Is salary inflation driving up ticket prices? Ruining baseball? (Short answers: Yes, no, no, no.) |
Sports Central
February 17, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
Reaction to A-Rod to Yankees It will not really surprise you that some of the usual suspects in New England are ready to jump out the window over Alex Rodriguez in Yankees' fatigues, will it? |
Sports Central
September 11, 2007
Aaron Miller |
Pay-Rod New York actually wants, maybe even needs Alex Rodriguez, and only they can really afford to make him feel the same way. |
Sports Central
November 25, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
The Fan Who Transformed the Union As long as Michael Weiner sat in the Major League Baseball Players Association's top seat, the most grievous issue wouldn't be grievous for very long, and that going to war rather than building a peace would be a fool's errand. |
Sports Central
August 31, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Unaccountability Leaves Cloud Over MLB As long as positive drug test results can be dismissed by players, doubted in the headlines, and penalties to players so meager, Major League Baseball will continue to have a public relations cloud over its head. |
Salon.com
September 25, 2002
King Kaufman |
MVP: Bonds and A-Rod, and it ain't close Let's cut the talk about reserving the award for a player on a winning team. The best player in the league is the most valuable, whoever he plays for. |
Sports Central
July 26, 2005
Billy Davis |
New and True in Yankee Blue What sort of test must a newcomer pass before earning recognition as a true New York Yankee? Thursday night's game against the Red Sox offered such a test for Alex Rodriguez. |
Sports Central
May 9, 2005
Tyson Wirth |
Modern Problems, Modern Solutions An outline of innovative and appropriate solutions to baseball's major problems such as foolish fans and luxury tax failures. |
Sports Central
December 1, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
A Baseball Negotiation, My Foot Derek Jeter may have won a 2010 Gold Glove that he doesn't really deserve. But neither does he deserve the apparent negotiating strategy of the New York Yankees, for whom he has been the franchise. |
Salon.com
October 25, 2002
Allen Barra |
Barry and the Babe Forget the nostalgia freaks droning on and on about the Mythical White Ballplayer era. Barry Bonds is the greatest player in baseball history. |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004
Mark Hyman |
Steroid Scandal? Pass the Peanuts Do fans care half as much as a few politicos and media scolds? They seem a lot more interested in the free-agent mating dance between Red Sox hurler Pedro Martinez and Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner. |
Sports Central
May 10, 2005
Matt Thomas |
Barry Bonds, a Legacy in Transition Barry Lamar Bonds holds his own when viewed in light of standards set by the game's all-time greats. But his problems start and finish with his attitude. |
Sports Central
February 2, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Selig's Legacy, For Better and For Worse Part of the problem is that, say what you will of the man one way or the other, Selig really is a baseball fan when all is said and done. |
Sports Central
June 5, 2013
Adam Russell |
Lifetime Bans Will Cure the Steroid Problems Well, here we are again with another drug scandal in Major League Baseball. We are, once again, faced with our diamond heroes having their reputations tainted with the use of illegal substances. |
Sports Central
November 19, 2005
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
A-Rod and Bartolo: Definitely Valuable Boston's hatred of Alex Rodriguez ends with the fans of their beloved team. On Monday, A-Rod was rightfully voted the Most Valuable Player in the American League by the baseball writers for the second time in three years. |
Sports Central
January 29, 2004
Esther Oh |
The A-Rod Saga Ends, For Now Alex Rodriguez can boast to having what his good pal Derek Jeter has at last. Like Jeter, Rodriguez now wears the symbolic "C" on his jersey after being named team captain of the Texas Rangers and subsequently extinguishing all trade talks. Finally. |
Sports Central
May 2, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
Well Done, Mr. April April is and has been many things. This year, it was A-Rod's. |
Sports Central
September 26, 2005
Chris Cornell |
Baseball's Big Embarrassment If those in charge of the sport don't change what is happening to their game in an appropriate manner, they will lose their fan base permanently. |
Sports Central
December 9, 2003
Jeff Kallman |
And Now, the End is Near? Will Pete Rose eventually be enshrined in the Hall of Fame? |
Sports Central
November 29, 2011
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's HGH Test More Smoke and Mirrors Major League Baseball's latest feat of extended "labor peace" with the Major League Players Association was reached on November 22, 2011. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: MLB With the 2008 season well underway, let's take a look through the complicated history of the league and pro baseball to present five things you didn't know about Major League Baseball. |
Sports Central
August 13, 2009
Jeff Kallman |
Big Papi's Big Burden David Ortiz isn't the first baseball player to say he got nailed by a test for actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances. |
Sports Central
November 14, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Expansion For Baseball MLB thinks the way to solve baseball's image and primacy problems is to expand the postseason. |
Sports Central
May 22, 2007
Paul Tenorio |
Should Barry Bonds Be a Hall of Famer? Barry Bonds surely had Hall of Fame numbers before the steroid controversy erupted. So does his alleged steroid use change the picture -- and should it? |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
Allen Barra |
Everything you know is wrong The major leagues are more competitive than ever, small-market teams can compete, and home runs and giant salaries aren't ruining the game. Plus: Who's going to Cooperstown? |
Sports Central
January 5, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
2003: Never a Dull Moment "We try every way we can do to kill this game," Sparky Anderson once said of baseball, "but for some reason, nothing nobody does never hurts it." That was then, this is now. Nothing nobody does never hurts it still, but lots of people do continue to embarrass it. |
Sports Illustrated
May 23, 2001
Frank Deford |
The ugly Americans' team It's hard not to root for the Mariners... |
Sports Central
July 22, 2005
Bob Ekstrom |
Lordy, Lordy, Look Who's ... 30? With or without a birthday, Alex Rodriquez always draws a lot of controversy. Why do opinions on him vary so widely? |
Sports Central
March 17, 2008
Matt Thomas |
MLB 2008: 15 Reasons to Watch Fifteen examples of what is sure to be served up on your Major League Baseball plate over the course of the upcoming season. |
Sports Illustrated
February 9, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Wise Investment Look past the numbers to see Jeter's worth... |
Sports Illustrated
September 10, 2002
Tom Verducci |
A Dopey Policy Baseball's new drug testing program is the laughingstock of experts who see it for what it is -- a toothless public relations ploy. |
Sports Central
March 20, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
On Rose's Applying For Reinstatement The question of whether Pete Rose should or will be reinstated to organized baseball became an official issue one more time. Commissioner Rob Manfred announced he received a formal request from Rose himself. |
Sports Central
December 26, 2005
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
Salon.com
November 22, 2000
Allen Barra |
Transcending the game Tiger Woods and the Williams sisters want a bigger cut of the increased revenues they've created. Not for winning, but just for showing up. Only a fool would give it to them. |
Sports Illustrated
July 2, 2003 |
SI's 2003 MLB player survey We wanted to know what the players think, so we went right to the source and polled major leaguers about all aspects of the game. Here's some of what we learned. |
Sports Illustrated
October 31, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Bonds and Shea don't mix Let's see, the Mets took a pass on Alex Rodriguez, insulting him in the process for being too concerned about himself, and now Barry Bonds is on the market -- the guy with his own wing in the clubhouse, his own stretching program, and the same agent as A-Rod... |
Sports Central
August 12, 2013
Corrie Trouw |
Bad Cop Never Wins Let me seriously ask: what if Major League Baseball's summer crusade against performance-enhancing drugs is a colossal mistake? |
