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BOSTON -- Alex Rodriguezs memories of Fenway Park are as textured as the complicated story of his 22-year career.This week, A-Rod will wear a Yankees uniform in Boston as a player for the final time. He will start in the finale of New Yorks three-game series on Thursday night before playing his final game with the team at home the next night.Manager Joe Girardi announced the plans for A-Rod in Boston prior to Tuesday nights series opener. After Fridays game against the Rays, Rodriguez will be released and shift into a role as a special adviser.Girardi said Sunday he would get Rodriguez as many innings as possible this week, but said Tuesday he got caught up in the emotions of Sundays announcement and instead will prioritize the Yankees pursuit of a playoff spot.Rodriguez said he is disappointed but excited to start at least one more time at Fenway Park, where he made his major league debut in 1994.Its a great chance to give me one big, loud boo on the way out and send me to Miami, Rodriguez said. The one thing is, I love Boston. Its a great city. I love Fenway Park. I started here. My mother and brother and sister were here. I want my girls to go to college somewhere in Boston -- Im not going to say where. But somewhere in Boston. It should be fun.The three-time AL MVP and 14-time All-Star was hitting .204 this season with nine home runs and 29 RBI in 216 at-bats. The struggles have relegated him to a diminished role. He hasnt played since Aug. 2 and has appeared in just 62 games this season.This has been really difficult, because I think we all expected him to have a good year, Girardi said. Me and Alex have been through a lot -- I mean a lot -- over the years that Ive been here. Hopefully when we all get away from this, he remembers more good than bad.Its unclear if Rodriguezs career will actually end Friday. The 41-year-old designated hitter remained noncommittal when asked if he was definitely retiring as a player after Fridays game.Im going to really enjoy the last three or four days, he said.Rodriguez nearly came to Boston from Texas before the 2004 season, but the players union rejected the deal because it hinged on Rodriguez taking a $40 million pay cut. He then was traded to New York.We had the deal worked out. We had a lot of people involved and at the very end -- in the ninth inning with two outs -- it was vetoed, Rodriguez said. That was an emotional roller coaster. 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Dillian Whyte is confident he can earn a rematch with Anthony Joshua next year and sees Saturdays British title fight as a step towards that goal.Whyte (18-1, 14 KOs) challenges fellow Brixton boxer Ian Lewison (12-2-1, 8 KOs) for the vacant British heavyweight title at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow in his third fight since Joshua stopped him with a spectacular uppercut in the seventh round last December.Victory would set up a clash with former world title challenger Dereck Chisora and Whyte believes a shot at IBF world heavyweight champion Joshua is possible for 2017.One hundred percent we will have a rematch, Whyte told ESPN. Two days after the fight I had major shoulder surgery because I was injured pretty bad before the fight but I went through with it because it was a fight I wanted.I want a couple of building fights and then by mid next year I will be in a great position for that fight. I gave his hardest fight yet and people want to see it.No one knows the situation with the world title belts. As for Tyson Fury we dont know whats going on yet. Im just sitting here waiting and as long as I keep winning and injury free Im aiming to fight for a world title next year.I will get through this fight and then possibly it will be Dereck Chisora and then I will be ready for the big guns.Whyte, 28, gave Joshua his toughest fight yet and troubled him in the second round of their British title bout last year.dddddddddddd Whyte also holds an amateur points win over Joshua, who went on to win the IBF world title in his next fight earlier this year.However, he is rebuilding his career following his first professional defeat to Joshua and has registered two wins since that setback and shoulder surgery. Whyte and Lewison used to train at the same gym together in south London but clashed at a recent press conference.Its progression and winning the Lonsdale belt has always been an ambition for me, Whyte said. He was a guy who was around before I was at the gym. I had the skills but I came in as an outsider with no experience but Ive overtaken him and done a lot more than he has.We trained at the same gym and Ive sparred with him before. There was trouble at a press conference, I think because his corner think he should be like for the fight. For me its not a game and I dont play boxing. If he wants to talk like he does I will deal with him that way.Top of the bill at the same event is Scot Ricky Burns first defence of his WBA world light-welterweight title against Belrusian Kiryl Relikh. ' ' '