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A-Rod? A gambler? Horrors!

By Jay Lovinger
Page 2

Wednesday, November 2, 2005

The exclusive on the front page of today's New York Daily News -- the one about A-Rod being "warned" by the Yankees not to visit illegal poker clubs -- is Shakespearean in scope. No, not Shakespearean as in "Hamlet" or "King Lear." Shakespearean as in "Much Ado About Nothing." As a former celebrity journalist (I put in a couple of stints at People, the uber-celebrity journal, in the 1980s), a lifelong New Yorker and Yankee fan and a poker columnist for ESPN.com (part of a company, I should ack ...

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