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This season and next for using performance-enhancing drugs and lying about it. >> he will be approaching his 40th birthday when hes allowed to come back. with two bad hips, injury record over the last couple years, i wouldnt count out the fact that a-rod is done. >> a dozen other players will get 50 game suspensions according to espn sources. all have ties to floridas now defunct biogenesis clinic and the owner tony bosch, who is cooperating with authorities. rodriguez has never failed a drug te...

Requirement of a 50-game suspension for doping? >> i mean it all depends on the evidence. if youre going by the standard drug agreement and first failed drug test would be 50 games. this isnt a matter of failed drug tests. they obviously have other evidence. his connection with anthony bosch and biogenesis. they probably have evidence he tampered with the investigation and maybe tampered with some of the witnesses. there is more there. i think that is why theyre justifying a bigger suspension th...

Performance enhancing drugs peds and major league baseball players. a report published in "miami new times" says this clinic was a pipeline for several players. >> its clear that biogenesis like a lot of anti-aging clinics was selling an awful lot and a number of other drugs banned in sports, testosterone, anabolic steroids. you know, the records that weve seen indicate that as for the average population, he was providing the same kind of drugs to professional athletes. >> reporter: and theyre b...

Going to face a mandatory sentence of life in prison and wont be eligible for parole for at least 25 years. he is a baseball superstar. the highest paid player in american sports. and one of the most powerful sluggers in the history of the new york yankees. thats the good news. but within the hour, all of that could come crashing down for one man known well as a-rod. alex rodriguez. major league baseball is expected to suspend him for at least 214 games for his alleged use of performance enhan...

Heres how long he was cheating the game. that feeds into the legacy issue that youre talking about. and thats part of what were going to see trickle out over the next 30 to 40 to 50 days as this arbitration goes through. theres going to be leaks. weve seen that already. its supposed to be a private process. its obviously not been a private process. the dirty details are going to come out. and that is going to be hits to a-rods legacy that baseball was trying to tell him, hey, you can avoid some ...

Sources this sunday morning are telling nbc sports that yankees star alex rodriguez will be suspended for the remainder of the 2013 season and likely the entire 2014 season. major league baseball commissioner bud selig expected to make that announcement tomorrow. i want to bring in bob costas of nbc sporpts. always good to have you, bob, especially with a developing story like this. this is about biogenesis, as mayor giuliani referred to, and a second round of steroid use for alex rodriguez. >> ...

Is he saying it aint so or just saying im disappointed. >> what the heck does that mean? does that mean i didnt do it. its not a matter of whether or not he did it or not. there is the link to biogenesis and tony bosch. its whether or not he was treated fairly through the process. ryan braun was suspended 65 games. it will cost him $3.25 million. the other 128 players were all suspended 50 games. alex rodriguez is suspended 211 games costing him about $34 million. he can still be owed $61 mill...

Hes suggesting theyre colluding. thats probably not happening. thats not really true. obviously hes seen that theres more than one side thats getting benefits from him being suspended. >> all right. so what kind. evidence do they allegedly have against him? it sounds like theyve put together what major league baseball believes is a tough case for him. >> right, right. they have a connection with him and anthony bosch who ran biogenesis in florida. we havent seen the evidence, but theres talk tha...

Did they just do biogenesis, which is basically blood enhancement, which a number of other athletes did, or, heres what i suspect, under the guise of what they were getting human growth hormone, which is what would make it as serious as it is. so i dont know all the facts so its very hard pressed for me to make a definitive conclusion about it. >> all right. mayor giuliani, thank you as always. >> thank you. coming up here, more on this topic. judgment day, as i say for baseball. the future of...

Alleged use of performance enhancing drugs. well, our jason carroll joins us from trenton, new jersey, where a-rod plays what could be his last professional baseball game in about an hour and a half. jason, tell us what is the feeling like at the stastastadi? >> reporter: well, if you see how packed todays stadium is, i think a lot of fans may be very well thinking it might be his last game. this game is sold out, pretty much a waiting game. well know within the next 24 to 48 hours what major le...