Selena Roberts Sports Illustrated - Steal base from A-Rod

Some girls have all the luck. And some guys don’t. Consider the current word-battle between Selena Roberts Sports Illustrated reporter, who wrote a recent article on steroids as being one of the favorite cocktails of the Yankee’s and third-base man Alex Rodriguez.

Roberts, who some years ago made news for herself with her transfer to the sports column at the New York Times, was merely assigned by her SI editor to do a regular profile feature on A-Rod. But what Selena wrote was much juicier than expected with follow-ups on the Dominican American’s failed marriage and his rumored relationship with the Material Girl, Madonna. This could have affected the dip of the Yankee’s in the last year’s Major League standings.

As every baseball sports fan now knows, Rodriguez was named among the baseball players who were confirmed to be using steroids during drug testing of the Major League Baseball (MLB) in 2003, results of which Roberts and a colleague at SI, David Epstein, secured. To Selena’s credit as one fine journalist, she did her homework, checked and re-checked with four independent sources to verify if there’s truth to the drug issue, which is common fare in the rumor mills of the megabuck world of sports personalities. As a fair reporter Roberts gave A-Rod the opportunity to tell his side of the story. But allegedly, he ignored this chance and in a manner that could be construed as a veiled threat, telling the SI reporter to just talk to the MLB players union.

A more polite handling by a PR person could have averted the Selena Roberts Sports Illustrated scoop. However, what she met was ignorance from the union representatives who said they were not interested. With that kind of reaction, the steroids story naturally had to break and the unavoidable controversy of the “He said, She said” erupted.

What’s seems strange now on hindsight is that Rodriguez has reportedly admitted in a later interview to having tested positive for steroids in 2003 while he was still playing for the Texas Rangers due to an enormous pressure to play well. And A-Rod, of course, unleashed his own verbal tirade that should make the Selena Roberts Sports Illustrated drug story alive and rife with potential sequels in 2009.

For one, Rodriguez has claimed that SI has been paying Roberts to stalk him in his apartment to get the drug story, and that police had to remove her from his apartment, an allegation that Roberts, of course, has denied. At this point, what the MLB players and their union should be wary of is that the Selena Roberts Sports Illustrated brouhaha is far from over. For what Roberts really has in breaking the Rodriguez story is a list of more than 100 baseball players who tested positive for steroids use.
And she’s coming out with a book this May, one tome which could detonate another bomb that could rock the rafters of Major League baseball for quite some time.

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