When I heard the allegation and subsequent admission of Alex Rodriguez’s steroid use last weekend, my first thought wasn’t about the damage it did to baseball. It wasn’t even about what A-Rod will do now, especially facing the New York media for the next nine years. My first thought? “Why couldn’t it have come out next week?”

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The UC Rock was turned into a television set Wednesday as “Comcast Newsmakers” ventured outside their studio to visit the University of Miami.

Sophomore point guard Eddie Rios, suspended twice this season, was arrested in Miami-Dade County early Wednesday and charged with two counts each of third-degree grand theft and burgulary of an unoccupied dwelling, both felony counts, according to the Clerk of Court's website.

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View more pictures from Miami's win over Florida State, their first in six attempts.

Dorothy Thomson, 76, graduated last month with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami.