Selena Roberts

Selena Roberts (born May 15, 1966 in Live Oak, Florida) is an American author and sportswriter, currently a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. She joined the New York Times in 1996 and became a columnist in 2002. Prior to that she was the Minnesota Vikings beat writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Orlando Magic and Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat writer for the Orlando Sentinel. She received a B.A. degree in journalism from Auburn University in 1988. She also writes for Sports Illustrated and makes frequent appearances on the ESPN talk show The Sports Reporters. In a February 7, 2009 article on SI.com, Roberts and her colleague David Epstein revealed that Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003.

Alex Rodriguez biography

On May 3, 2009, her book A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez hit book stores. The unauthorized biography links the embattled slugger's tabloid-like fame and use of performance enhancing drugs with an unquenchable desire for attention, and his father, Victor, who abandoned him at ten years old. The book reports allegations that Rodriguez used performance enhancing drugs in high school, and also delves into allegations that A-Rod used PEDs with the New York Yankees and tipped pitches to opposing players. The book received widespread media attention before it was released but in its first month it sold only 16,000 copies out of 150,000 that were printed.