Sideways Society

This weekend’s news that New York Yankee star Alex Rodriguez allegedly tested positive for anabolic steroid use in 2003 has moved the steroids-in-baseball conversation beyond the eventual admissibility of evidence to whether the disclosure of supposedly secret test results could be a crime. A former prosecutor said he expects U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston to order criminal contempt hearings to determine who leaked the news of Rodriguez’s failed test.