TAMPA, Fla. Isaiah Johnson Raiders Jersey . -- Alex Rodriguez met Friday with Major League Baseball officials probing the distribution of banned performance-enhancing drugs. The meeting took place before the New York Yankees third basemans latest injury rehabilitation game in the minor leagues was rained out. While A-Rod didnt speak with reporters Friday, the meeting was confirmed by a person who spoke on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized. MLB investigators are probing the closed anti-aging clinic Biogenesis. Rodriguez has said he used PEDs while with Texas from 2001-03 but has denied using them since. He was linked to Biogenesis in a report in January by Miami New Times. It was not known whether Rodriguez refused to answer MLBs questions. Coming back from hip surgery in January, he had been scheduled to play third base for Class A Tampa. A-Rod was not at Steinbrenner Field when Fridays game was called, marking the second straight day he did not speak with reporters. He also did not take part in pregame batting practice with the Tampa players. A team official said the Yankees are evaluating whether Rodriguez will stay in Tampa this weekend, where the weather forecast calls for additional rain, or be moved to another minor league team. On Friday, the grounds crew put the tarp on the field around 6:20 p.m., 40 minutes before the scheduled start, and just before heavy rainfall left big puddles on the warning track and in parts of the outfield. A lightning strike during the storm knocked out most of the playing field lights. Rodriguez started at third on Thursday and fielded one grounder before a sudden downpour made the field unplayable and the game was cancelled after one-half inning. Rodriguez is 2 for 15 (.133) with one RBI in six minor league games for Tampa and Charleston, both Class A farm teams. 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Plans are underway to establish a team comprising of players from Englands opponents at Twickenham on Saturday, live on Sky Sports 2, plus Samoa and Tonga, that would compete in an expanded version of the southern hemisphere competition.By offering professional rugby in the Pacific Islands in the form of a franchise that would be operational in the early 2020s, it is hoped that the player drain to overseas clubs can be stemmed. Fiji played Australia at the 2015 Rugby World Cup England are among the nations profiting from Fijians opting for the greater riches available outside their homeland as they prepare to name Nathan Hughes and Semesa Rokoduguni in their starting XV for Saturdays second autumn international.It costs a lot of money to run a Super Rugby franchise and the economies in the Pacific are small economies, but it could become a reality in the next five to six years, McKee said. I certainly feel that the groundswell has changed a little bit and were realistically moving towards that now. Six months half price Upgrade to Sky Sports to watch Man Utd v Arsenal on Saturday and get the first six months half price From a national coaching perspective, to have our players playing in Super Rugby would be hugely beneficial for the national team because the windows fit in with the Test match windows.We would have access to a fair number of our squad at home over the whole 12 months. We would still select players from Europe, but the core of our team would be at home. With the talented athletes we have, if we had a Super Rugby team, we would be right up there. Fiji played Australia at the 2015 Rugby World Cup McKee views the emergence of Argentina since their exposure to Super Rugby as proof that Fiji might also power into rugbys top tier. Ted Hendricks Jersey. If you look at Argentina, they have improved since joining Super Rugby, he said. They found it a bit tough with all the travel, but its enabled them to have the core of their players at home for the majority of the year. England vs Fiji November 19, 2016, 2:00pm Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass You can see how Argentinas style has changed - they are a much more dangerous team now and had a very successful World Cup, playing very un-Argentinean style rugby. That has come from playing Super Rugby.Fiji captain Akapusi Qera believes that having a Super Rugby franchise in the Pacific Islands would have a profound impact on their ability to halt the exodus and urged World Rugby to invest in the project. Fiji played Australia at the 2015 Rugby World Cup Having Super Rugby would bring professionalism to the islands and it would raise question marks on whether to come to Europe or not. 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