Derek Jeter was the marquee player on the most popular baseball franchise in the world for 20 years and was bound to find himself in the news quite a bit.
Most of those instances were positive for the New York Yankees captain. Most of Jeter's headlines focused on him hitting a walk-off home run, making a diving play in the stands or hosting a charity event.
They weren't all positive. Some interesting, yet wacky and difficult stories to prove seemed to find their way into the tabloids.
That was the case with the gift basket rumors. In 2011, the New York Post reported that Jeter gave out gift baskets full of memorabilia to women who spent the night at his house. The story seemed to take on a life of its own. Whether people actually believed it happened, the rumors never really went away.
Jeter is retired and engaged now, and he wants everyone to know that the gift basket story is absolutely false. Jeter appeared on Undeniable with Joe Buck recently and said many of the rumors about him are untrue.
It wasn't the first time that he's publicly denied the story. Jeter told NY Mag in 2014 that the gift basket rumors were false no matter how some people desperately wanted to believe they were true.
By denying this one, though, Jeter has broken his own rule. So don't be surprised if he's asked to address every rumor that came out about him during his playing career.
False Hall hopes?
Roger Clemens might never get into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown because of suspected use of performance enhancing drugs during the latter stages of his career, but if he does see that day come he said he will go into the hall in a Boston Red Sox uniform.
Clemens played for four different teams during a 24-year major-league career, but it's those early years with the Red Sox that stick with him. He won three Cy Young Awards and one American League MVP award during his 13 seasons in Boston.
"It would obviously be a Boston hat," Clemens said during a radio interview Thursday when asked what uniform he would wear on his plaque if inducted. "That's where I got my start and my nickname. It's where I grew up."
Clemens hasn't received nearly enough votes from the Baseball Writer's Association of America to sniff a spot in the Hall of Fame during his three years on the ballot. He did see a small increase in the number of votes he received last year, but at 37.5 percent he's still well off the 75 percent threshold needed. He has seven years left on the writer's ballot.
"I'm not worried about it. I don't confuse my career with my life, or refuse to let one person define who I am as a person," Clemens said. "The guys that are voting are great. It's their opinion and they have a right to do what they want to do. I have zero control over it. I know how I did it; I did it right. I did it to the fullest and I loved it."
Golf gets violent
Steven Bowditch is playing in his home country Australian Masters, and it isn't going that well.
Bowditch hit a wayward drive Friday that hit a fan in the face. According to the Daily Mail, the fan's nose had to be rebroken so it could be set.
Hopefully Bowditch pulled a Phil Mickelson and slipped him a couple of $100 bills inside a golf glove.
QUIZ
The New York Yankees chose Derek Jeter sixth in the 1992 MLB Draft. Who were the players picked ahead of him?
ANSWER
Phil Nevin, Paul Shuey, B.J. Wallace, Jeffrey Hammonds and Chad Mottola
Sports on 11/21/2015