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...hits keep on coming for Major League Baseball. On Saturday, Sports Illustrated broke the story that perennial all-star Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during the 2003 season. Faced with these allegations, A-Rod quickly took the path of former Yankees Jason Giambi and Andy Pettitte by admitting to his use of steroids. In explaining the doping, Rodriguez cited the pressures of his peers and the new $250 million contract he had inked that year with the Texas Rangers—which at that point was the largest deal in the history...
...Against Yale, Vaillancourt set up two of her teammates in a close 2-1 contest. But the margin of victory was widened against Brown on Saturday, when Vaillancourt scored two goals and added two more assists to her weekend tally...
...Australians had gone to bed on Saturday night knowing that dozens of fires raged across southern Victoria. They knew, too, that at least a dozen lives had been lost. But, like the authorities, they had no idea of the scale of the disaster that had been unfolding over the previous few hours. Fueled by 115 F degree (46 C) heat and powerful northerly winds, the fires were laying waste to houses, schools, whole towns. On Sunday morning, as the weeping, blackened survivors emerged from the ruins telling of horrific scenes of bodies dead beside the roads and of missing relatives...
...Premier Brumby has announced a Royal Commision of Inquiry into the fires. "We want to make sure that every single issue, ever single factor, everything in relation to the horrific weekend, to the horrific fires on Saturday is investigated and uncovered," he told reporters as he toured the fire ravaged areas. Official advice to stay and defend their homes or leave before the fire became dangerous had failed to save people, he acknowledged...
...confirmed his daughter's death to reporters, and then asked to be left alone. He has insisted over the past year that the Vatican must not impose its morality on those outside the Church. As for Italy's political leaders, he had publicly invited both Berlusconi and Napolitano on Saturday to see his daughter for themselves following news reports that she was in rather robust physical shape. "Come to Udine to take full account, in person and in private, of my daughter's real condition." It was a final reminder of at least one difference from the Schiavo case...