Brian McNamee was Roger Clemens former personal trainer. Brian McNamee told press and investigators that Clemens took steroids and other doping drugs while he was playing professional baseball. Brian McNamee comments are reflected in the...
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Brian McNamee was Roger Clemens former personal trainer. Brian McNamee told press and investigators that Clemens took steroids and other doping drugs while he was playing professional baseball. Brian McNamee comments are reflected in the allegations against Clemens in the Mitchell Report.
Seven-time Cy Young Award-winner Roger Clemens is appealing the dismissal of his defamation suit against former trainer Brian McNamee over doping allegations. Clemens filed a notice on Friday with the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals to review the decisions of US District Judge Keith P. Ellison. Ellison dismissed much of Clemens's case in February, and threw out the remainder on August 28. Clemens, who won fame with the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox in a 23-year Major League pitching... Read Full Story
Seven-time Cy Young Award-winner Roger Clemens is appealing the dismissal of his defamation suit against former trainer Brian McNamee over doping allegations. Clemens filed a notice on Friday with the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals to review the decisions of US District Judge Keith P. Ellison. Ellison dismissed much of Clemens's case in February, and threw out the remainder on August 28. Clemens, who won fame with the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox in a 23-year Major League pitching... Read Full Story
An American judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by seven-time Cy Young award winner Roger Clemens against his former personal trainer Brian McNamee. In February, US district judge Keith P. Ellison dismissed the majority of Clemens' lawsuit and this latest decision on August 28 nullifies the final portion of the suit. McNamee is suing Clemens for defamation in a separate suit filed with a New York court. Clemens launched his suit against McNamee in early 2008 after the trainer made... Read Full Story
Seven-time Cy Young award winner Roger Clemens once again vehemently denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs by saying it would be "suicidal" given his family's history of heart problems. "Our family has a history of heart conditions," Clemens said. "My brother had a heart attack in his late 40s. My stepdad died of a heart attack. I mean, it would be suicidal to even think about taking any of these dangerous drugs." Speaking on a New York area radio show on Tuesday, Clemens also... Read Full Story
Roger Clemens has stayed mum for more than a year on allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs. Right now, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner is now attempting a different strategy. Clemens has hired a firm that aims to guide high-profile figures through public relations crises. And on Tuesday, he finally broke his silence through a radio appearance. He denied that Brian McNamee, his former personal trainer, injected him with performance-enhancing drugs. This is done in a phone... Read Full Story
Seven-time Cy Young award winner Roger Clemens once again vehemently denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs by saying it would be "suicidal" given his family's history of heart problems. "Our family has a history of heart conditions," Clemens said. "My brother had a heart attack in his late 40s. My stepdad died of a heart attack. I mean, it would be suicidal to even think about taking any of these dangerous drugs." Speaking on a New York area radio show on Tuesday, Clemens also... Read Full Story
Roger Clemens ' agent, Randy Hendricks, has been one busy guy. No, he hasn't been shopping The Rocket around, he's been writing an 18,000-word essay he likes to call a "statistical report" on why his client should be cleared of performance-enhancing drug use allegations. "Clemens longevity was due to his ability to adjust his style of pitching as he got older, incorporating his very effective split-finger fastball to offset the decrease in speed of his regular fastball caused by aging." Next... Read Full Story
Roger Clemens' lawyer says the pitcher was not among the more than 100 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. Rusty Hardin tells The New York Times that Clemens obtained the results from the drug-testing company and provided them to Congress before his 2008 testimony by waiving his right to keep them private. The results would not affect a federal grand jury's investigation into whether Clemens should be indicted for perjury. Clemens disputed former trainer... Read Full Story
Sat Jan 17th 2009 Brian McNamee met Friday for more than five hours with assistant United States Attorney Daniel P. Butler, the man in charge of the federal government's investigation into whether pitcher Roger Clemens perjured himself. The meeting came nearly a year after McNamee and Clemens appeared before Congress and told stories so wildly divergent that one of them had to be lying under oath. McNamee, who likely soon will appear before a grand jury that will determine whether Clemens... Read Full Story
Lawyers for Roger Clemens asked a federal judge to reconsider his decision dismissing most of a defamation suit the pitcher filed against his former personal trainer over allegations of performance-enhancing drug use. U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison dropped most of Clemens' lawsuit against Brian McNamee on Feb. 12, saying statements McNamee made to baseball investigator George Mitchell were protected. McNamee told federal agents, Mitchell and a House of Representatives committee that he... Read Full Story
