A-Rod Letter to Fans: "I'm Sorry"
ROMANS: All right. Alex Rodriguez wants you to know he's sorry. The New York Yankees Star suspended for the 2014 season because of using performance-enhancing drugs, he's written a letter, a hand-written letter to his fans. Andy Scholes has more in this morning's "Bleacher Report". He's sorry.</s>ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Yes, he definitely is, Christine. You know, A-Rod never really admits he used performance-enhancing drugs while with Yankees in this handwritten letter, but he did apologize for pretty much everything else he did over the last two years. A-Rod in a letter says, "I take full responsibility for the mistakes that led to my suspension for the 2014 season. I regret that my actions made the situation worse than it needed to be. I accept the fact that many of you will not believe my apology or anything that I can say at this point. I understand why. And that's on me." A-Rod went on to say, "I'm ready to put this chapter behind me and play some ball." Now, A-Rod will have to face the media when the Yankees' position players report to Tampa for spring training next week. The man who allegedly supplied A-Rod with steroids, Tony Bosch, was sentenced yesterday to four years in federal prison. In October, Bosch pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute testosterone. The district judge says Bosch accepted thousands of dollars a month to provide steroid injections to players such as A-Rod. And the most troubling part of his biogenesis clinic was that Bosch also injected high school players in the Miami area with steroids. The Kentucky Wildcats looking to remain undefeated last night, taking on Tennessee. First half, Devin Booker fouled hard, and he goes flying right into a volunteers' cheerleader. That looked like it hurt. Booker who said he felt so bad about this in a tweet, he apologized, and the cheerleader tweeted right back saying she was, in fact, OK. Kentucky would go on to win this game, 66-48, to improve to a perfect 26-0 this season. Potentially more troubling reports surfacing rounding footballs and the New England Patriots. According to an ESPN "Outside the Lines" report, a locker room attendant for the Patriots tried to introduce an unapproved special teams football during the famous deflate-gate game. Now, in the report it says an alternate official became suspicious when a locker room attendant, 48-year-old Jim McNally, handed him a ball that had not been marked for the kicking game. The official also said he found it odd that the locker room attendant was on the field during the game. NFL special investigator Ted Wells has reportedly interviewed McNally. And, Christine, this is potentially very bad for the Patriots because you can't explain this one away with the weather, saying the weather caused him to try to introduce this football. I mean, this would be blatant cheating if this is, in fact, true. So, this is not looking good for the Patriots, the way this investigation is going now.</s>ROMANS: There is more to that story. We've got to scratch that surface to find out what's really going on. All right. Thanks so much, Andy Scholes. Back to our top story, ISIS repelled after launching fierce assaults near a major Iraqi city. Can the Kurdish forces keep ISIS at bay?