Trainer's involvement puzzles A-Rod

 
Alex Rodriguez remembers Joseph Dion as the good-natured Miami-area fitness expert who tried to turn him into a jogger, and he recalls working with Dion as a trainer from his days with the Seattle Mariners. So the Yankees' third baseman was perplexed by a published report by SI.com on Friday purporting that the latest Jose Canseco book indicates that Dion taught Rodriguez how to use illegal steroids. [link]

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