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May 2008
- Baseball Finally Back to Normal
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 23, 08 10:42 AM CDT
  
  After over a decade of chemical-fueled insanity, baseball is back to normal, writes Thomas Boswell in the Washington Post. Home run totals are down 10.4% this spring, after an 8% drop last year. The sport is on pace to return to the century-old statistical norms ripped to shreds by the steroid era. “I think this is a good thing,” said Orioles prez Andy MacPhail. “It’s more like baseball.” More »
- Feds Have 104 Positive MLB Drug Tests
  
  newser | New York Times | May 18, 08 5:42 PM CDT
  
  US Attorneys have a list of 104 baseball players who failed a 2003 drug test, even though the players' union vowed to keep those names secret. The union has contested the Feds' search, but the list could become public in a matter of weeks, reports the New York Times . More »
April 2008
- Clemens Had More Women, Source Says
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Apr 30, 08 10:17 AM CDT
  
  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 admitted to knowing Clemens, but had no comment about their relationship. More »
- Baseball Owners, Players Toughen Drug Policy
  
  newser | Associated Press | Apr 12, 08 8:54 AM CDT
  
  Clubs and players agreed yesterday to toughen Major League Baseball's anti-doping policy, the AP reports. Players will be tested more frequently without notice, and the game's outside administrator—a position created in 2005 to oversee testing—will get more authority. As part of the deal, all of the players named in the Mitchell Report have been given amnesty. More »
- Player Agents Referred Clients to Steroid Doc
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 11, 08 1:14 PM CDT
  
  Federal authorities unsealed an indictment yesterday that charges Dr. Ramon Scruggs and two associates with illegally prescribing performance-enhancing drugs to MLB players. One assertion made in the indictment is that players’ agents referred them to Scruggs, though no agents are named. The doctor, along with associates Allan Danto and Heidi Macpherson, faces 11 charges relating to the illegal distribution of the drugs. More »
- Who Will Sign Bonds, When?
  
  newser | ESPN | Apr 4, 08 12:20 PM CDT
  
  Opening Day has come and gone and Barry Bonds remains without a baseball home. But the home-run king isn't likely to stay on the sidelines for an entire season. Three MLB executives speculate—albeit anonymously—to Jayson Stark of ESPN about why he hasn't been signed. First, to get Bonds means you take on the baggage that comes with him, including the constant media interruptions and a high dose of drama. More »
- McNamee Selling Clemens Mementos on eBay
  
  newser | Associated Press | Apr 2, 08 8:01 PM CDT
  
  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 steroid guys"—Clemens, Canseco, and Pettitte, the AP reports. He's donating the proceeds to his juvenile diabetes charity. More »
March 2008
- Canseco Now Thinks Clemens Was Clean
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Mar 27, 08 3:15 AM CDT
  
  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 used steroids, Newsday reports. More »
- Canseco Links A-Rod to 'Roids in New Book
  
  newser | New York Post | Mar 26, 08 9:19 AM CDT
  
  Jose Canseco, baseball’s most outspoken steroid user, suggests that reigning AL MVP Alex Rodriguez used performance-enhancing drugs in his new book Vindicated, reports the New York Post. This according to a Massachusetts-based writer, who found a copy yesterday in a local store, although it's not due for release until April 1. "I really have absolutely no reaction," was the Yankee slugger's response. More »
February 2008
- FBI Begins Clemens Probe
  
  newser | Bloomberg | Feb 28, 08 5:59 PM CST
  
  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 or human growth hormone, but his former trainer says otherwise. More »
- Congress Asks Justice Dept. for Clemens Probe
  
  newser | Associated Press | Feb 27, 08 1:56 PM CST
  
  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 his former trainer and a teammate. More »
- Rocket Avoids 'Roid Q's at Camp
  
  newser | Houston Chronicle | Feb 26, 08 11:43 PM CST
  
  Roger Clemens arrived at the Houston Astros’ training camp determined to avoid questions about his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs. “Everything’s been said that needs to be said on that. We’re moving forward. It’s baseball time. We’re going to enjoy that,” the hurler said. It was the first time Clemens spoke with the press since his Feb. 13 congressional hearing, reports the Houston Chronicle . More »
- House Panel May Go After Clemens on Perjury
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 26, 08 10:54 AM CST
  
  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 change before the letter is submitted. More »
- Photo Looks Like Trouble for Clemens
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Feb 22, 08 6:26 PM CST
  
  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, which he and Canseco have both testified he didn't attend. More »
- 'Miracle' HGH's Awful Truth: It May Not Work
  
  newser | Newsweek | Feb 20, 08 12:31 PM CST
  
  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 a great deal of hype,” said one endocrinologist, “but there isn’t a great deal of evidence.” More »
- Pettitte Sorry for Taking HGH
  
  newser | Associated Press | Feb 18, 08 6:19 PM CST
  
  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 is, said Pettitte. More »
- McNamee Counsel: Rocket Can Rely on Bush Pardon
  
  newser | Associated Press | Feb 14, 08 5:50 PM CST
  
  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,” said lawyer Richard Emery, citing Clemens’ friendship with Bush's father and Dubya’s pardoning of Scooter Libby. More »
- Cone Denies Conversation With McNamee
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 14, 08 12:55 PM CST
  
  David Cone said last night he never had a conversation with Roger Clemens' former strength coach Brian McNamee about drug testing in Major League Baseball, reports the New York Times. During testimony before Congress yesterday, McNamee was asked about a conversation he said he had with Cone in 2000 that led him to hold on to syringes he said he used on Clemens. More »
- Clemens, McNamee Both Grilled Hard
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 13, 08 1:50 PM CST
  
  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 to show it. At one point, Clemens' attorneys leapt up to defend him against what they described as committee chairman Henry Waxman's "innuendo" that he had interfered with a witness, a former nanny whose testimony put him at the party. More »
- Clemens, Trainer Stories at Odds
  
  newser | Associated Press | Feb 13, 08 10:07 AM CST
  
  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 remembered taking HGH once more than previously admitted. But Clemens remained steadfast, denying any HGH or steroid use, the AP reports. More »