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New York Yankees Alex Rodriguez's brother Joe says A-Rod out 10 weeks — Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez will have surgery to remove a cyst from his right hip and will be out 10 weeks, Rodriguez's brother told ESPNdeportes.com on Thursday. — Joe Rodriguez, Alex Rodriguez's older brother …
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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Spring Game 9: Team Canada vs. Yankees (including A-Rod injury updates) — YANKEES — Pitching: Joba Chamberlain followed by Christian Garcia, Brian Bruney, Jon Albaladejo, George Kontos ans Wilkin De La Rosa. — CANADA — Barnwell SS — Martin DH — Weglarz LF — Morneau 1B
Mark Feinsand / NY Daily News:
Report: A-Rod needs hip surgery, could miss 10 weeks — Alex Rodriguez could miss the next ten weeks as he will need surgery to remove a cyst from his right hip according to a report Thursday morning on ESPNdeportes.com. — Yankees spokesman Jason Zillo would neither confirm nor deny the report.
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Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Brother: A-Rod to have hip surgery — Yankees third baseman will miss World Baseball Classic — TAMPA, Fla. — Alex Rodriguez's troublesome right hip requires immediate surgery, the third baseman's brother told LasMayores.com, MLB.com's Spanish-language Web site.
Dave Cameron / FanGraphs Baseball:
Down Goes A-Rod — Some big news coming out this morning about the severity of Alex Rodriguez's hip injury - according to MLB.com, Rodriguez is going to have surgery that will keep him out of the line-up until at least May. Regardless of how you may feel about Rodriguez, this is clearly a blow to the Yankees.
New York Post:REPORT: A-ROD NEEDS SURGERY, OUT 10 WEEKS
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Wayne Graczyk / MLB.com:
Japan silences China in Classic opener — Starter Darvish tosses four hitless innings; Ichiro 0-for-5 — TOKYO — Team Japan won the opening game of the 2009 World Baseball Classic, beating a punchless China club, 4-0, before a flag-waving, camera flashing, mostly Japanese crowd of 43,428 in Tokyo on Thursday night.
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Japan opens WBC title defense with shutout of China — TOKYO — Japan began the defense of its title with a 4-0 win over China in Thursday's opening game of the World Baseball Classic. — Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki went hitless in five at-bats but Shuichi Murata homered …
Jerry Kronenberg / Boston Herald:
Ex-Sox slugger Manny Ramirez' Ritz penthouse hits market — Call it Manny being canny. — Ex-Red Sox [team stats] slugger Manny Ramirez [stats] put his Ritz-Carlton penthouse on the market for $8.5 million yesterday, the same day the slugger inked a $45 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Devon Teeple / The Biz of Baseball:
The Biz of Baseball Organizational Report - The New York Yankees — In a continuation of The Biz of Baseball's Organizational Reports, we are now featuring the franchise that most clubs are envious of, and all strive to defeat: The New York Yankees. — The 2009 New York Yankees are looking …
New York Times:
Mets' New Home Is the ‘Anti-Shea’ — For those fans who hated Shea Stadium, fear not: Citi Field is nothing like its predecessor, the last bits of which lie in ruins a few hundreds yards away. — The Mets' new park, which will open its doors for a Georgetown-St. John's baseball game March 29 …
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Arthur Staple / Newsday:
Pedro throws two innings, says he feels great — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - It was a day without A-Rod for the first time in a long while, but Pedro Martinez filled the void nicely. — Martinez pitched two innings, his first game work since Sept. 25 with the Mets, and allowed two runs …
Adam Kilgore / Boston Globe:
New stance is on tap — After dismal '08, Varitek changes — FORT MYERS, Fla. - Dave Magadan first wanted Jason Varitek to alter his lefthanded batting stance two years ago, a notion met with resistance by a proud man. Varitek's style - tapping his front foot for timing …
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Pete Toms / The Biz of Baseball:
Sports Marketing is the Recession's New Whipping Boy — “Sports marketing is the recession's new whipping boy.” — That is a quote from a report in this week's SportsBusiness Journal on the backlash against the TARP assisted financial services sector's sponsorship of professional sports.
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Dan Lamothe / Red Sox Monster:
Broadcasting, wedding appearances and Red Sox ghosts: An interview with Carl Beane, the voice of Fenway Park — Editor's note: With a new season around the corner, it's time to roll out what will hopefully be a long series of interviews with some of the movers and shakers in the Red Sox world.
Michael Smith / ESPN:
Sources: Terrell Owens cut by Dallas Cowboys … The Dallas Cowboys have released controversial wide receiver Terrell Owens, sources told ESPN's Michael Smith late Wednesday. — In late February, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones did not deny the team was discussing the possible release of Owens.
Howard Ulman / Associated Press:
1B prospect glad Teixeira didn't join Red Sox — FORT MYERS, Fla.—Lars Anderson paid little attention to the Red Sox pursuit of Mark Teixeira even though the talented prospect's position would have been tied up for a long time if the team succeeded. — The 21-year-old first baseman's name …
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