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PITTSBURGH - Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Mike Adams will play football again, perhaps as early as late July when the team reports for training camp. Yet his teammates say the late night assault the 23-year-old endured early Saturday morning in the citys South Side district should serve as a warning about the dangers of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, even if you are 6-foot-7 and 345-pounds like Adams. "There aint nobody whos too big," Steelers linebacker Larry Foote said. "Once youve got a weapon involved, everybodys the same size then." Adams underwent surgery after sustaining stab wounds to his leg and forearm during an attempted carjacking. His recovery time is expected to last 6-8 weeks, meaning he will miss the final week of organized team activities and next weeks minicamp. Police arrested suspects Dquay Means, 26, and Michael Paranay, 25, on Monday and charged them with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and conspiracy. The search for a third suspect is ongoing and Foote hopes the crime leads city officials to up the police presence in the popular bar district not far from the teams headquarters. Foote added he thinks the incident should serve as a wakeup call for players to "be aware of their surroundings" and avoid questionable areas at night. "I would say that nothing ever good happens after 12 oclock," Foote said. "But you should be able to be safe. You shouldnt be alone, and stuff happens. This is the type of world we live in today." Adams is penciled in as the starting right tackle but will be spelled by second-year lineman Kelvin Beachum while he rehabs. Its not exactly the way Beachum wanted to get back to his old job. Beachum started five games at right tackle at the end of the 2012 season when Adams was sidelined with an ankle injury. The Steelers plan to use him as a utility lineman this year and even have him taking snaps at centre. Hes currently on hiatus from that job, however, as he handles Adams usual post. The two are good friends and Beachum allowed he was shaken by the crime. "Its been difficult this week with him not here," Beachum said. The two have locker stalls next to each other and leaned on one another during a sometimes bumpy 2012 as a series of injuries to the line forced them to quickly adapt to new roles. Beachum impressed the coaching staff so much the Steelers opted to let Doug Legursky -- who started at centre in the 2011 Super Bowl -- walk as a free agent. Beachum has spent time with former Pittsburgh lineman Tunch Ilkin to get comfortable at different spots along the line. That includes snapping the ball for the first time in his life. "You do some things, just messing around, but not taking it as seriously as Im taking it right now," Beachum said. "So, thats my biggest challenge, and Im attacking it." All that moving around can get confusing yet Beachum understands finding a way to be versatile is the key to extending his NFL career. He made the final cut last summer as a seventh-round pick out of SMU, where he was a four-year starter. His 6-2, 303-pound frame is perhaps better suited to the interior line and hes trying to get comfortable working in a confined space. "It takes some thinking, but like Coach (Mike) Tomlin says, if you know things and understand what youre doing, you wont have to think," Beachum said. "So, its all about getting to that point where theres no thinking involved. Its just playing." Something the Steelers are eager to get back to, Adams included. Center Maurkice Pouncey spent time with Adams in the hospital and called the near-miss a "blessing." 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Subscribe today!IT SOUNDS SO inconceivable, naive, delusional, but it was only a decade ago that Alex Rodriguez was the antidote to a ruinous generation of drugs and greed. He was the choice of the really smart baseball men, such as Theo Epstein and Brian Cashman, both of whom traded for him, and a paralyzed commissioner such as Bud Selig, who tolerated Barry Bonds holding the home run record because soon enough Rodriguez would shatter it and make the game whole again. He would make them clean.Alex Rodriguez only made it worse. The Golden Boy wasnt so golden after all. Following a bizarre week in which the Yankees held a retirement ceremony for him even though hed never announced he was quitting, Rodriguez was discarded without much care. Even the pregame celebration before his final game as a Yankee was curtailed by thunder, lightning and rain, fitting for those who found him less of a True Yankee than the rest. That wasnt thunder, former Yankees player and coach Lee Mazzilli said of the biblical thunderclaps that preceded the downpour. That was George. The Yankees 1996 championship team was being honored the next day, but for Rodriguezs night, only Mariano Rivera joined him on the field. Former teammates Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, Bernie Williams and Derek Jeter were not present. Neither was his old manager, Joe Torre. Thats called a message pitch.Point the blame at Rodriguez, who admitted using PEDs, but no amount of reveling in his inglorious end can undo the enormous collaborative effort that has created baseballs current dystopia. Rodriguez, along with Bonds, Roger Clemens and Mark McGwire, is part of the Mount Rushmore of discredited legends that represents the true legacy of the steroid era: It isnt that they arent in Cooperstown. Its that nobody cares.The all-time home run list was once led by the most recognizable foursome in sports -- Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson. That leaderboard stood for nearly 30 years, until Bonds, who hit his 500th and 600th home runs just one season apart, passed Robinson in 2002. Sammy Sosa hit 60 home runs three times and won the home run title in exactly none of those years. While baseballl took the money and laughed at warnings that it was undermining itself, the consequences would be felt later, with Rodriguez amassing 3,000 hits, 2,000 runs and 2,000 RBIs -- something only Aaron had done -- but leaving the game utterly uncelebrated, inside baseball and especially out.ddddddddddddThe Rodriguez epitaph will be a one-sided story about the phenom who was part of the top millionth percentile of talent and blew it all. Yet Alex Rodriguez will in the end be no different from the industry in which he performed for the past two decades, a game that has lost its way, seemingly intent on undermining all that made it special.The game, like A-Rod, took the money (it is now close to a $10?billion industry), ignored the spread of steroids and lost out on the good stuff. Its records are now as worthless as those in the league it is so envious of, the NFL. It decides which team will host the most important games of the World Series based on an exhibition game. It plays its championship in the worst weather because its leaders refuse to compromise on money and adjust the schedule. It plays at least one game every day between teams that play under two sets of rules. 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