The Final 9

Dunn and Zimmerman should put up solid numbers this season. Shame they play for the Nats.

Shea Stadium, the circular modern stadium that hosted two World Series title winners but was criticized for its lack of charm and amenities, met its end Wednesday. It was 44.

Ken Griffey Jr. is returning to the city where his career started. Griffey, Jr. Has agreed to a one-year deal with the Seattle Mariners, where he played 11 seasons from 1989 to 1999.

Yankees' manager Joe Girardi said it was important that Alex Rodriguez said he was sorry for using performance-enhancing drugs. The Yankees' slugger held a press conference earlier Tuesday in Tampa, Florida.

Alex Rodriguez answered one big question Tuesday, admitting his cousin repeatedly injected him with a substance from the Dominican Republic.

New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez offered new details about his performance-enhancing drug use Tuesday, saying his cousin injected him with an over-the-counter substance to gain an energy boost.

Bobby Abreu and Adam Dunn ink deals.

2002 MVP Miguel Tejada pled guilty to misleading Congress about a teammate's steroid use and also admitted buying HGH but said he threw it away without ever using it.

Rich Hofman, who coached Alex Rodriguez in high school, says he's confident the star will emerge from the steroid scandal and will work to become an even better player.

AP sports columnist Jim Litke breaks down Alex Rodriquez's admission of using performance enhancing drugs.

Speaking at a news conference in Washington D.C. on Monday, President Barack Obama says Alex Rodriguez's admission of steroid use 'tarnishes an entire era in baseball.

In the wake of Alex Rodriguez's admission of steroid use, the AP's Ron Blum discusses the implications of Monday's revelation, the potential reaction of MLB fans to the news and whether A-Rod has damaged his Hall of Fame Chances.

Some jaded New York sports fans say they're disappointed, but not shocked at a report that Yankees star Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids six years ago.

Alex Rodriguez admitted Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001-03, saying he did so because of the pressures of being baseball's highest-paid player.

By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez admitted Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001-03 when he played for the Texas Rangers.

"Back then it was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid," the New York Yankees star said in an interview with ESPN. "I was naive, and I wanted to prove to everyone that, you know, I was worth, you know - and being one of the greatest players of all time.

His admission came two days after Sports Illustrated reported he tested positive for steroids in 2003, one of 104 players who tested positive during baseball's survey testing, which wasn't subject to discipline.

"It was such a loosey-goosey era. I'm guilty for a lot of things. I'm guilty for being negligent, naive, not asking all the right questions," Rodriguez said. "To be quite honest, I don't know exactly what substance I was guilty of using."

SI.com reported he tested positive for Primobolan and testosterone.

A-Rod admits using performance-enhancers....

Sports Illustrated has reported that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003.

By Selena Roberts and David Epstein

In 2003, when he won the American League home run title and the AL Most Valuable Player award as a shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources have independently told Sports Illustrated.

Rodriguez's name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball's '03 survey testing, SI's sources say. As part of a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association, the testing was conducted to determine if it was necessary to impose mandatory random drug testing across the major leagues in 2004.

When approached by an SI reporter on Thursday at a gym in Miami, Rodriguez declined to discuss his 2003 test results. "You'll have to talk to the union," said Rodriguez, the Yankees' third baseman since his trade to New York in February 2004. When asked if there was an explanation for his positive test, he said, "I'm not saying anything."

Phone messages left by SI for players' union executive director Donald Fehr were not returned.

Sources tell SI Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003....

By PAUL ELIAS
Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Prosecutors trying to prove Barry Bonds lied when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs suffered a setback Thursday, with a federal judge saying she might toss some of the strongest evidence against the home-run king.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said her "preliminary thoughts" were to exclude from trial three 2000-2001 positive drug tests that prosecutors say belong to Bonds unless there is a direct link that the urine samples came from the former San Francisco Giants slugger.

"If there's no testimony to establish that, I don't think any of them work," Illston said.

The only person who can do that seems to be Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, who spent more than a year behind bars for refusing to speak to a federal grand jury investigating Bonds. And Anderson's attorney, Mark Geragos, has said his client will not testify against Bonds at the trial, scheduled to start March 2.

Judge may toss some evidence in Bonds case....

A federal judge plans to unseal hundreds of pages of court documents at the heart of the government's case against Barry Bonds. He's accused of lying to a grand jury about using performance-enhancing drugs.

Former Yankees manager Joe Torre is defending his new book, saying he doesn't think he violated any clubhouse conduct code by making private team matters public.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tests have linked Roger Clemens' DNA to blood in syringes that his former personal trainer says he used to inject the pitcher with performance-enhancing drugs, according to a report.

Citing two unidentified sources familiar with the investigation, The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the DNA results are preliminary and subject to verification tests. The newspaper said Clemens voluntarily gave a DNA sample to federal authorities, according to the sources, and it still remains to be determined whether the syringes ever contained steroids or human growth hormone.

The test results could prove important to the investigation into whether Clemens lied under oath to Congress last year when he denied using steroids or HGH.

Prosecutors have asked a federal grand jury in Washington to decide whether to indict the seven-time Cy Young Award winner. Brian McNamee has told federal agents, baseball investigator George Mitchell and a House of Representatives committee that he injected Clemens more than a dozen times with steroids and HGH from 1998-2001.

Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, told the Post that the DNA testing "won't matter at all."

Report: Clemens' DNA linked to blood in syringes....