A-Rod vs. the Reporter

An interesting offshoot of the Alex Rodriguez steroid story is that in the aftermath, he accused Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts of “stalking” him.
“What makes me upset is that Sports Illustrated pays this lady, Selena Roberts, to stalk me,” he told ESPN’s Peter Gammons.
Among his allegations were that she was ejected from his New York City apartment building and escorted off of the University Miami campus by police. Also, he said, she tried to break into his Miami home.
She denies all of it.
“There are some really respectable journalists that are following this lady off a cliff,” Rodriguez said.
I don’t know A-Rod personally, but I used to know Roberts, back when she was an NBA beat writer for the Orlando Sentinel. Not well, but we talked at games and/or practices.
She didn’t seem like a stalker to me.
I’ll take the word of a reputable reporter over a ballplayer trying to salvage his image — and has people who manage his image — any day.
Another thing overlooked in the story is that Roberts had no real reason to pursue A-Rod, except to give him a chance to tell his side. It would have been easier for her to just file the story without trying.
I’m not saying a reporter should get a breaking and entering citation just to get a quote; I’m saying it would have benefited him to tell his side of the story to her first.