A-rod out for 6-9 weeks

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The news is sobering and the cloud that hangs over Alex Rodriguez's career has only gotten bigger. Only weeks after admitting to taking performance-enhancing substances, the New York Yankees have announced that A-rod will indeed have surgery to repair a labrum tear in his hip. Rodriguez flew to Colorado last week to have a cyst drained in the hip and upon further review it was determined that Rodriguez had a labrum tear. Doctors considered a variety of options, basing their decision on which one would keep Rodriguez in the dugout the least amount of time, and this initial surgery was chosen. But it doesn't end there. Providing all goes well and Rodriguez returns this year he will still need to have a second operation at the end of the season, and there is no way of knowing what state his hip will be in at that stage. The ramifications of this injury are serious. No word on whether the injury was steroid-related, but the last major athlete to have such problems with his hip was Bo Jackson, who was only a shadow of his former self when he returned to play. As for the Yankees their World Series aspiration took a downturn and the reality is that they cannot void A-rod's 10-year, US$275 million contract, which still has nine years left on it.
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