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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://nerve.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Scanner : yankees</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/yankees/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: yankees</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>Fox News Thinks Madonna Broke A-Rod's Rod</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/07/08/fox-news-thinks-madonna-injured-a-rod.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:01:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:107502</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=107502</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/07/08/fox-news-thinks-madonna-injured-a-rod.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/07/08-15/1_62_mad320.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/07/08-15/1_62_mad320.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;You&amp;#39;ve gotta hand it to Fox News for at least being blatant about their rumor mongering. We know the whole A-Rod, Madonna, Lenny Kravitz thing is a little hard to follow, but we really need you to put on your thinking caps for this one. Based on the Yankees&amp;#39; disabled list and Madonna&amp;#39;s promotional tour schedule, Fox News thinks Madonna may have injured A-Rod herself...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left:40px;"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s start an urban legend. This one is about Madonna and Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-style:italic;" /&gt;&lt;br style="font-style:italic;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;A-Rod’s second child, Ella, was born April 21 in Miami. He flew down, arrived 10 minutes after her birth, looked at her, and headed back to New York.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-style:italic;" /&gt;&lt;br style="font-style:italic;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;It’s unclear where he was between the 22nd and the 24th, when he missed three games in Chicago against the White Sox. During that time, Madonna premiered her documentary about Malawi with loads of Kabbalah propaganda on April 23 at the Tribeca Film Festival. A-Rod rejoined the Yankees on April 25 in Cleveland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-style:italic;" /&gt;&lt;br style="font-style:italic;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Then Rodriguez attended Madonna’s half-hour promotional show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York on April 30.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left:40px;"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;But no one’s mentioned that just the day before, April 29, the Yankees placed A-Rod on the 15-day disabled list. It was the first time he’d been on such a list since the year 2000.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#39;s some serious barrel scraping, if you ask us. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We want to not care about this, but if Madonna&amp;#39;s 50-year-old vagina is strong enough to injure a professional athlete&amp;#39;s penis, we just started caring about this story. Hell, if they both just pulled some muscles we&amp;#39;re still at little intrigued.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Thanks, FOXNews, for giving us more fake crap to fill our brains with. You think we didn&amp;#39;t have enough to worry about already with &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/07/07/sloppy-seconds-just-how-good-is-mini-me-in-bed.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Mini Me&amp;#39;s sex tape&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/07/07/scanner-roundtable-bases.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;what really happens at third base&lt;/a&gt;. Hey, maybe A-Rod can answer that last one for us.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[FoxNews: &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377627,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;Did Madonna Injure A-Rod?&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/07/07/a-rod-brainwashed-by-hot-madonna-or-religious-madonna.aspx"&gt;A-Rod Brainwashed By Hot Madonna or Religious Madonna?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/07/03/the-a-rod-madonna-lenny-kravitz-clusterf-ck.aspx"&gt;The A-Rod, Madonna, Lenny Kravitz Clusterf*ck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left:40px;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=107502" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/fox+news/default.aspx">fox news</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Lenny+Kravitz/default.aspx">Lenny Kravitz</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/madonna/default.aspx">madonna</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/clusterfuck/default.aspx">clusterfuck</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/yankees/default.aspx">yankees</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/alex+rodriguez/default.aspx">alex rodriguez</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/injury/default.aspx">injury</category></item><item><title>The A-Rod, Madonna, Lenny Kravitz Clusterf*ck</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/07/03/the-a-rod-madonna-lenny-kravitz-clusterf-ck.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:06:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:106596</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=106596</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/07/03/the-a-rod-madonna-lenny-kravitz-clusterf-ck.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/07/01-07/kravitz-madonna-d.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/07/01-07/kravitz-madonna-d.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We&amp;#39;ve been avoiding the news that Madonna&amp;#39;s marriage to Guy Ritchie may be falling apart and that she may or may not be turning to Yankee&amp;#39;s player Alex Rodriguez for sexual healing because, frankly, we don&amp;#39;t care all that much. But then they had to go and bring Lenny Kravitz into the mix.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Now it seems that A-Rod&amp;#39;s wife is dating Lenny Kravitz, who supposedly dated Madonna when he contributed to 1990&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Justify My Love.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Got it straight? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Okay, to recap (please assume that all of these &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; have an &amp;quot;apparently&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;supposedly&amp;quot; in front of them):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Madonna and Guy Ritchie are headed towards splitsville.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Madonna has been sneaking around with Alex Rodriguez. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alex Rodriguez&amp;#39;s wife has been spending &amp;quot;cozy time&amp;quot; in Paris with Lenny Kravitz, who used to date Madonna.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Whew.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[Us: &lt;a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/alex-rodriguezs-wife-seeing-madonnas-ex" target="_blank"&gt;Report: Alex Rodriguez&amp;#39;s Wife Seeing Lenny Kravitz, Madonna&amp;#39;s Ex&lt;/a&gt;]&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Related:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/03/19/hot-or-not-madonna-s-hard-candy.aspx"&gt;Hot or Not: Madonna&amp;#39;s Hard Candy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/04/29/who-would-you-rather-chrissie-hynde-vs-madonna.aspx"&gt;Who Would You Rather: Chrissie Hynde vs. Madonna?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/04/15/madonna-s-sexlife-threatened-by-keebler-elves.aspx"&gt;Madonna&amp;#39;s Sexlife Threatened By Keebler Elves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/23/lenny-kravitz-corroborates-adriana-lima-s-claim-to-virginity.aspx"&gt;Lenny Kravitz Corroborates Adriana Lima&amp;#39;s Claim to Virginity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=106596" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Lenny+Kravitz/default.aspx">Lenny Kravitz</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/madonna/default.aspx">madonna</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/clusterfuck/default.aspx">clusterfuck</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/yankees/default.aspx">yankees</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/alex+rodriguez/default.aspx">alex rodriguez</category></item><item><title>The Craziest Fans In Sports?</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/06/do-the-yankees-have-the-craziest-fans.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 17:39:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:91029</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=91029</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/06/do-the-yankees-have-the-craziest-fans.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/05/01-07/yankees-ejection-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/05/01-07/yankees-ejection-2.jpg" border="0" height="341" width="512" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The Terror Alert Level has been elevated again after the President warned of possible sectarian violence between Yankees fans and Red Sox fans.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;This follows the arrest of Ivonne Hernandez of New Hampshire on charges of second-degree murder and drunk driving, stemming from an incident on Friday night at a Nashau sports bar...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;According to prosecutors and various reports... Hernandez drove at a group of people outside Slade&amp;#39;s Food &amp;amp; Spirits... hitting and killing 29-year-old Matthew Beaudoin... The incident was reportedly sparked after Hernandez identified herself as a Yankees fan and someone in Beaudoin&amp;#39;s group started chanting &amp;quot;Yankees suck!&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;What happened to a good ribbing at your rival&amp;#39;s expense? (More importantly, when did Lizzie Grubman get out on bail?) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;When we were kids, we were really into baseball... and deathly afraid of Yankees fans. A friend&amp;#39;s Dad told us this story (which we have put in our own words):&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In the late seventies or early 80s, when Rod Carew was still playing for the Twins, I went to a Red Sox game at Fenway Park with an old friend of mine. This friend knew Rod Carew and Rod got us seats near the dugout. He came out to say hello before the game started and at the end of the conversation, asked us if we wanted anything, you know, from inside the baseball inner-world. I brazenly requested a Red Sox baseball cap from the actual Red Sox dugout. Rod nodded and went straight to their bench to ask for one. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I kept that cap for years-- you could say it was my most prized possession. Rod went on to the California Angels and although I&amp;#39;ve always been a Sox fan, I supported and admired him all his career. One year, I was at Yankee Stadium for a Yankees-Red Sox game and wore the hat Rod Carew had given me. At some point, as the game heated up, a man approached me with a knife in his hand. 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