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(Newser) - Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada has been charged with lying to congressional staffers involved in the inquiry into steroids use in baseball, the Washington Post reports. Federal prosecutors say Tejada’s accounts of conversations with teammate Adam Piatt in 2003, while both played for the Oakland Athletics, are contradicted... More »

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Oakland Athletics • steroids • MLB • Houston Astros • Baltimore Orioles • Miguel Tejada • human growth hormone • Rafael Palmeiro • federal prosecution • criminal charges • Adam Piatt

Dealer Says
He Sent Clemens HGH

Ex-Mets staffer said to turn over shipping receipts to feds

Jul 16, 08 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Admitted drug dealer Kirk Radomski has turned over to federal authorities proof that he mailed human growth hormone to Roger Clemens, the New York Daily News reports. Sources claim Radomski has shipping receipts for HGH kits mailed to Clemens’ Texas mansion. The former Yankees and Houston Astros pitcher is under... More »

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steroids • Roger Clemens • Kirk Radomski • human growth hormone • Debbie Clemens

 Olympians Adjust to
 Tougher Drug Tests 

Athletes must keep agency up to speed on their whereabouts

Jul 1, 08 1:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Many US professional athletes aren't accustomed to giving blood and urine samples during their off seasons, but with the Olympics approaching, that's all been changing, writes USA Today. The US Anti-Doping Agency requires all potential competitors to comply with a "whereabouts program" and submit to random screenings for HGH... More »

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basketball • soccer • 2008 Beijing Olympics • human growth hormone • sports doping • USADA • blood tests • baseball • drugs in sports

 McNamee Selling Clemens
 Mementos on eBay

'Break-up' memorabilia profits go to juvenile diabetes group

Apr 2, 08 8:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - If Roger Clemens wants to get any of his stuff back from ex-trainer Brian McNamee, all he has to do is log on to eBay. McNamee, who split with Clemens in the great steroids war, is putting up everything from autographed baseballs to hats to photographs of "all the... More »

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sports • steroids • Roger Clemens • online auction • anabolic steroids • auction • Andy Pettitte • Jose Canseco • memorabilia • human growth hormone • sports memorabilia • baseball • Mitchell steroids investigation • Brian McNamee

HGH Builds Muscles, Not Strength: Study

Docs see athletes using bigger doses, drug cocktails

Mar 18, 08 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Human growth hormone certainly builds muscles, but it may not make athletes faster or stronger. "What we found suggested that it didn't help—and at some point, it might hurt," said the lead investigator on the Stanford research study. So why, the San Jose Mercury News wonders, do... More »

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Stanford University • athlete • human growth hormone • muscle mass • muscle strength

FBI Begins Clemens Probe

Agency looking into allegations pitcher lied to Congress about steroids

Feb 28, 08 5:59 PM CST
(Newser) - The FBI today began investigating whether Roger Clemens committed perjury when he told Congress that he never used performance-enhancing drugs, Bloomberg reports. The agency opened a preliminary review one day after a House panel told the Justice Department it suspected Clemens of lying. The pitcher insists he never took steroids... More »

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Department of Justice • steroids • Roger Clemens • Andy Pettitte • perjury • Miguel Tejada • human growth hormone • Mitchell Report • Brian McNamee • Rusty Hardin

Congress Asks Justice Dept. for Clemens Probe

Bipartisan letter wants to look at star's steroids denials for perjury

Feb 27, 08 1:56 PM CST
(Newser) - A congressional committee today asked the Justice Department to examine Roger Clemens’ denials under oath that he used performance-enhancing drugs and determine if they constitute perjury, the AP reports. In the letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Reps. Henry Waxman and Tom Davis cite the pitcher's statements contradicting those of... More »

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steroids • MLB • Henry Waxman • Roger Clemens • anabolic steroids • Tom Davis • Andy Pettitte • perjury • Michael Mukasey • human growth hormone • baseball • Mitchell steroids investigation • Brian McNamee • House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

House Panel May Go After Clemens on Perjury

Panel drafts letter asking Justice Dept.
to investigate

Feb 26, 08 10:54 AM CST
(Newser) - The congressional panel that questioned Roger Clemens about steroids has drafted a letter asking the Justice Department to investigate whether he committed perjury, the New York Times reports. The letter doesn't name his former trainer, Brian McNamee, who testified the same day and insisted Clemens is lying, but that could... More »

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Congress • Department of Justice • steroids • Henry Waxman • Roger Clemens • perjury • human growth hormone • baseball • Mitchell steroids investigation • Brian McNamee • performance-enhancing drugs

Photo Looks Like Trouble
for Clemens

Fan's party snapshot could figure in potential federal investigation

Feb 22, 08 6:26 PM CST
(Newser) - An 11-year-old fan's photo of Roger Clemens could mean trouble for the scandal-battered pitcher, especially if the congressional committee pursuing the steroids investigation refers the case to the Justice Department, the New York Daily News reports. The image is allegedly of Clemens at a 1988 party given by Jose Canseco,... More »

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Congress • steroids • Barry Bonds • Congressional oversight • Roger Clemens • Jose Canseco • human growth hormone • Mitchell Report • Brian McNamee

'Miracle' HGH's Awful Truth: It May Not Work

Testimonials aside, study shows hormone benefits few patients

Feb 20, 08 12:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Here’s the list of people human growth hormone is proven to help: the elderly, AIDS and tuberculosis patients, and people with hormone deficiencies. Baseball players aren’t on that list, Newsweek reports, and neither are thousands of ordinary people who believe HGH slows the aging process. “There’s... More »

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elderly • steroids • Roger Clemens • Andy Pettitte • human growth hormone • studies • health research • performance-enhancing drugs

Pettitte Sorry for Taking HGH

Says he hasn't spoken to Clemens in a month

Feb 18, 08 6:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Andy Pettitte apologized to fans and teammates today for using human growth hormone, the AP reports. Pettitte said he had not spoken to Roger Clemens, whom he implicated in HGH use in a congressional deposition, in more than a month. “I can't even describe how uncomfortable” the Clemens situation... More »

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steroids • MLB • Roger Clemens • Andy Pettitte • human growth hormone • baseball • Mitchell steroids investigation • Brian McNamee

McNamee Counsel: Rocket Can Rely on Bush Pardon

Poppy pal has nothing to worry about, he says

Feb 14, 08 5:50 PM CST
(Newser) - A lawyer for trainer Brian McNamee said today if pitcher Roger Clemens is ever charged with lying to Congress about steroid use, he would be pardoned by President Bush, the AP reports. "Even if he's prosecuted, he will never have to serve jail time or face a trial,”... More »

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Congress • steroids • Roger Clemens • George Mitchell • George HW Bush • human growth hormone • baseball • Brian McNamee • Richard Emery • George W. Bush

UPDATED

Clemens, Trainer Stories at Odds

McNamee says he injected pitcher more than he claimed earlier

Feb 13, 08 10:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Ex-trainer Brian McNamee today told Congress he injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs more often than he’d already admitted, saying he'd remembered incidents since his initial statement. Andy Pettitte, meanwhile, revealed in that Clemens had admitted taking HGH years before—a charge Clemens said Pettitte misheard—and Pettitte himself... More »

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steroids • Roger Clemens • Andy Pettitte • human growth hormone • Mitchell Report • Brian McNamee

Source: Trainer Says Clemens' Wife Took HGH

McNamee injected Debbie Clemens before 2003 magazine spread

Feb 8, 08 6:57 PM CST
(Newser) - Brian McNamee told congressional investigators yesterday that Roger Clemens’ wife, Debbie, took human growth hormone, a source tells the New York Daily News. The pitcher's former trainer said Roger asked him to inject Debbie with HGH as she prepared to be photographed for Sports Illustrated's 2003 swimsuit issue, the source... More »

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steroids • Roger Clemens • human growth hormone • baseball • Mitchell steroids investigation • Brian McNamee • Debbie Clemens • Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

Clemens Testifies Under Oath on the Hill

Claims innocence in preparation for Feb. 13 public hearing

Feb 5, 08 9:37 PM CST
(Newser) - Roger Clemens spent five hours testifying to congressional lawyers under oath; he said he told them he never used performance-enhancing drugs. "It was great to be able to tell them what I've been saying all along—that I've never used steroids or growth hormone,” Clemens said about his... More »

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Congress • MLB • Roger Clemens • Andy Pettitte • human growth hormone • baseball • Mitchell Report • Brian McNamee

Pettitte Sits Down With Investigators

Clemens on deck in round of depositions to Congressional staff

Feb 4, 08 10:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte spoke under oath with officials from a House committee for 2.5 hours today on the subject of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Pettitte's testimony has been highly anticipated since accusations in the Mitchell Report that both Pettitte and former teammate Roger Clemens used steroids, writes the... More »

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steroids • MLB • New York Yankees • Roger Clemens • Andy Pettitte • American League • human growth hormone • baseball • Mitchell Report

Knoblauch Testifies on HGH

Former Yankee seems to admit substance use, but obliquely

Feb 2, 08 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Leaving his closed-door session with the House oversight committee yesterday, Chuck Knoblauch offered only enigmatic answers about his use of human growth hormone, the AP reports. With wife and toddler in tow, the former Yankee smiled and said, "It is what it is." Though he didn't respond to... More »

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MLB • New York Yankees • Roger Clemens • Andy Pettitte • human growth hormone • baseball • Mitchell Report • Brian McNamee • Chuck Knoblauch • House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Clemens Musters Stats to Counter Steroids Charges

Study purports to refute claims pitcher needed drugs

Jan 28, 08 8:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Roger Clemens was not in the “twilight” of his career or "washed up" in the late '90s, a statistical report released by his agents today aims to show, to refute allegations that the hurler used performance-enhancing drugs to rebound. The report compares his stats to other major league... More »

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steroids • Roger Clemens • human growth hormone • performance-enhancing drugs

Rocket Refused to Address 'Roids Allegations: Mitchell

Players were notified of accusations in advance

Jan 14, 08 3:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Roger Clemens twice declined entreaties by George Mitchell to respond to allegations that he had used steroids, USA Today reports. Mitchell said that last summer and fall, as his investigation developed, he sent the players union requests to interview players who faced accusations of drug use. Clemens never responded, Mitchell... More »

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Roger Clemens • George Mitchell • human growth hormone • Major League Baseball Players Association • Mitchell Report • Mitchell steroids investigation • Brian McNamee • Jason Grimsley

Steroids Probe Entangles
50 Cent, Blige

Anti-aging claims lure entertainers to illegally prescribed HGH

Jan 14, 08 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - To the list of celebs implicated in steroids investigations, add 50 Cent and Mary J. Blige. The Albany-based probe that has already fingered major pro athletes also involves entertainers, the Albany Times Union reports, indicating steroid use has grown far beyond the realm of sports. Other stars who received the... More »

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steroids • Barry Bonds • Roger Clemens • 50 Cent • anabolic steroids • human growth hormone • Tyler Perry • Timbaland • baseball • Mitchell Report • Mary J. Blige • Wyclef Jean

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