News (Noticias) Tagged ‘Jose Canseco’

Alex Rodriguez isn’t the first athlete Madonna has pursued.

In the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now), former Oakland A and onetime Yankee Jose Canseco details how the singer, 49, tried to romance him in 1991 even though, like baseball nemesis A-Rod, he was married at the time. (He first talked about the incident in his 2008 biography Vindicated.)”*

Funny, eh? The man who was voted American League Most Valuable Player in 1988, after posting the first 40-40 season in the big leagues, has scheduled a boxing match. Having extended invitations to anyone who dared to accept his challenge, he is scheduled to fight Vai Sikahema, the former Philadelphia Eagle who now is a TV sports anchor.

I wish this were a publicity stunt. A way for Jose to get his name in the papers and on ESPN.

It’s not. He’s had so much publicity - of all kinds - in recent years that it’s coming out of his ears. Many of those who didn’t know of his tape-measure homers have been introduced to the retired ballplayer prostituting himself, burying any dignity he once had.”*

Jose Canseco, the former AL MVP who made millions during his baseball career, has had his home foreclosed.

Canseco told the syndicated TV show “Inside Edition” that he walked away from his $2.5 million, 7,300-square foot home in suburban Encino because it didn’t make sense to continue making payments.”*