Cleveland Indians superstar Jay Alcazar has been accused of his rape, and damned if his manager Howie Traveler is going to leave him high and dry. Before you run to flip on SportsCenter, perhaps you should make a quick stop at the NPR website.

“What! NPR doesn’t cover sports! You’ve gone mad, boy!”

No, you’ve gone mad! NPR recently sat down with sports writer Frank Deford, in whose novel The Entitled, you’ll find Alcazar and Traveler faced with decisions that could end their careers or land them in jail. To complicate things further, Alcazar has been around the bases a few times off the field, too, and when Traveler walks by his player’s hotel room on one such night, he sees that will make him continually question everything he’s put his career on the line for.

And we don’t find out who is right ’til the very end!

When asked why he chose baseball to frame his plot, Deford responded, “the easiest thing to write about and I guess the most fun to write about …. Every day there [are] winners and losers and there’s drama and there’s joy and there’s glamour. And the guys playing it are young, and so lots of times they say all the wrong things.”

True enough. Listen to the interview and read the article here.