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All three newscasts treated Alex Rodriguez' cheating as newsworthy enough to assign a correspondent to the slugger's confession but presumably because of copyright issues neither NBC's Mike Taibbi nor CBS' Armen Keteyian had his story posted online and ABC has John Berman's report behind an embargoed link. ABC did post a brief stand-up by Peter Gammons, the baseball reporter from ESPN's Sportscenter who conducted the interview. Rodriquez told Gammons that he was a doper at the Texas Rangers in 2001, 2002 and 2003: "I am very sorry and deeply regretful." During those three seasons Rodriguez averaged 52 home runs and 131 runs batted in. During all other seasons in his career--albeit in less batter-friendly home fields--his home run average has been 39. CBS' Keteyian played a clip from anchor Katie Couric's 60 Minutes interview with Rodriguez from 2007. "For the record, have you ever used steroids, human growth hormone or any other performance enhancing substance?" "No."
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