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Brian McNamee stories: 29 news summaries

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(Newser) - Roger Clemens again denied past steroid use today, and criticized a new book that claims to detail his transgressions, the New York Daily News reports. It’s “impossible” that trainer Brian McNamee injected the pitcher with steroids “because he’s never given me any,” he told an... More »

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New York Yankees • Roger Clemens • New York Daily News • baseball • Brian McNamee • steroid use • investigative journalism • Nathaniel Vinton • Jay-ZTV

 Drugs Found 
 on Clemens' 
 Injection Kit 

Lawyer says McNamee must have planted evidence

Mar 10, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal investigators have found traces of banned, performance-enhancing substances on the paraphernalia Brian McNamee used to inject Roger Clemens, the New York Times reports. Clemens’ DNA was found on at least one of the syringes last month, but the pitcher says he was only injected with Vitamin B12 and... More »

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steroids • Roger Clemens • Brian McNamee • performance-enhancing drugs

Trainer Slaps Clemens With $10M Defamation Suit

McNamee, made famous by the Mitchell report, sticks it to ex-boss

Dec 23, 08 1:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Brian McNamee is suing his former boss for $10 million, the New York Post reports, saying Roger Clemens libeled and slandered him in the wake of the Mitchell Report on steroids in baseball. The former star pitcher is likewise suing McNamee for telling federal investigators Clemens used steroids, but McNamee... More »

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Roger Clemens • lawsuit • defamation • Mitchell steroids investigation • Brian McNamee

OPINION

 Why Is 'Supermom'
 Getting the Bonds
 Treatment? 

If it weren't for McNamee, maybe we'd still be happily naive about sports doping

Jul 6, 08 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some are calling five-time Olympic swimmer Dara Torres "Supermom," but Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star thinks that "Wonder Woman" might be more appropriate. Everyone's wondering how a 41-year-old new mother could come back from retirement and surgery to take first place at her fifth qualifiers.... More »

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steroids • Roger Clemens • swimming • asthma • Brian McNamee • comeback • Olympic trials • Dara Torres

 Roger's Pals Appeal: 
 Cut Your Losses! 

Friends want Rocket to drop suit, critics agree

May 2, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Friends and critics of Roger Clemens agree on one thing: He's well beyond "say it ain't so" and entering "stop the bleeding" territory. Those close to the rambling family man are urging him to drop his defamation lawsuit against Brian McNamee, and a legal expert compares him to... More »

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steroids • Roger Clemens • perjury • defamation • Brian McNamee • performance-enhancing drugs • Mindy McCready

Clemens Had More Women, Source Says

'Family man' flew several in private jet; gave gifts of jewelry

Apr 30, 08 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - It wasn't just country singer Mindy McCready that Roger Clemens carried on with, a source tells the New York Daily News. The former Major League pitcher apparently had several lovely lady friends whom he jetted across the country in his plane and presented with expensive jewelry. One of them... More »

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Roger Clemens • perjury • adultery • defamation • Brian McNamee • performance-enhancing drugs • Mindy McCready

Tearful Singer:
Clemens Affair Rumors True

Country star McCready confirms relationship with embattled pitcher

Apr 29, 08 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Country star Mindy McCready confirmed that she had a 10-year affair with Roger Clemens in a tearful interview yesterday with the New York Daily News. "I cannot refute anything in the story," McCready says. The two met in 1991, when the singer was 15, and Clemens was... More »

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Roger Clemens • perjury • Brian McNamee • performance-enhancing drugs • Mindy McCready

Report Links Clemens,
Teen Singer

Tale of 10-year affair could hamstring Rocket's legal defense

Apr 28, 08 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Roger Clemens had a 10-year affair with country star Mindy McCready, beginning when the troubled singer was only 15, the New York Daily News reports. Clemens' lawyer confirmed the two were friends and said, "He has never had a sexual relationship with her." The news could further tarnish... More »

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Roger Clemens • Brian McNamee • Mindy McCready

 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

Canseco Now Thinks Clemens Was Clean

Slugger retreats from allegations that Rocket juiced his fuel

Mar 27, 08 3:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Bash Brother Jose Canseco has backed down from charges that Roger Clemens used more than workouts to pump his pitching arm. Contradicting what's written in his own books, "Juiced" and the upcoming "Vindicated," Canseco said in a TV interview that he now doesn't believe the Rocket... More »

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Roger Clemens • Alex Rodriguez • Jose Canseco • Mitchell steroids investigation • Brian McNamee • Juiced • Vindicated

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

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

Clemens, McNamee Both Grilled Hard

Clemens lawyers lash out at committee chair Waxman

Feb 13, 08 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - The biggest fireworks in today's House Oversight Committee hearings on the Mitchell Report involved Brian McNamee's claims that Roger Clemens and Jose Canseco discussed steroids and HGH at a party at Canseco's house several years ago. Clemens says he was playing golf the day of the party, and has receipts... More »

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MLB • Henry Waxman • New York Yankees • Roger Clemens • Mitchell Report • Brian McNamee • House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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

Pettitte Will Skip Clemens Steroid Hearing

Described as 'not a good witness' in contradictory deposition

Feb 12, 08 6:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte will not be called to testify before the congressional committee investigating the Mitchell Report and alleged steroids use by Roger Clemens, ESPN reports. Former Mets trainer Kirk Radomski and ex-player Chuck Knoblauch will also not testify, which leaves Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee. McNamee... More »

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steroids • Roger Clemens • Andy Pettitte • baseball • Mitchell Report • Brian McNamee

Clemens' Lawyer in Hot Water

Rusty Hardin criticized for remarks made about a federal agent

Feb 11, 08 5:32 PM CST
(Newser) - The battle rages on in the Roger Clemens steroid scandal, but this time it's his lawyer who is under fire. The chairman of the congressional committee overseeing one inquiry into steroid use in baseball criticized Rusty Hardin for comments he made about IRS agent Jeff Novitzky. “If he ever... More »

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steroids • Roger Clemens • Mitchell Report • Brian McNamee • Rusty Hardin

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