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Baseball star Alex Rodriguez, of the New York Yankees,
talks to children during a baseball clinic in Mexico City.
Photo Gregory Bull/AP.
New York Yankees third-baseman Alex Rodriguez appeared in
Mexico City on the same weekend as Madonna - a turn of events
he called "very good."
The 33-year-old baseball star spent two hours on Sunday
teaching kids to bat at a new sports centre built on a
landfill in the poor suburb of Nezahualcoyotl.
Pop star Madonna meanwhile prepared to perform for a sold-out
second night in the capital as part of her "Sticky &
Sweet" tour.
When asked what he thought about being in the sprawling
capital at the same time as Madonna, Rodriguez said it was
"very good," without elaborating.
Rodriguez and his wife divorced in September, months after he
made tabloid headlines for a rumoured, but denied, dalliance
with Madonna.
Less than four weeks later, Madonna and filmmaker husband Guy
Ritchie announced their own split after nearly eight years of
marriage.
Rodriguez, known by fans as "A-Rod," was invited to
inaugurate the sports centre by Mexico's richest man, Carlos
Slim, whose Telmex Foundation sponsored its construction. The
site includes two baseball diamonds and 25 soccer fields.
"It's a pleasure to talk about baseball, to talk about the
importance of keeping children off the streets, out of drugs
and out of all the bad things that there are in this life,"
the New York City-born Rodriguez said in Spanish.
It wasn't immediately known of Rodriguez and Madonna met
while in Mexico City.
