A-Rod Suspended Through 2014

Security drives New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez who arrives at US Cellular Field in Chicago to play the Chicago White Sox tonight. (AP Photo/Charles Cherney)

Major League Baseball on Monday suspended New York Yankees’ slugger Alex Rodriguez through the end of the 2014 season, an unprecedented punishment for the use of performance-enhancing drugs – and a decision that, oddly enough, won’t prevent Rodriguez from making his 2013 debut Monday night in Chicago as he appeals the ruling. Rodriguez, fifth all-time on the home run list, stood as the lone holdout in a list of a dozen players who accepted 50-game bans for receiving banned substances from a Miami anti-aging clinic. In announcing Rodriguez’s suspension – the final 49 games of this season and all 162 next year – MLB cited, in a statement, his “use and possession of numerous forms of prohibited performance-enhancing substances, including Testosterone and human Growth Hormone [sic], over the course of multiple years”/ Washington Post . More here.

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