Brian McNamee

Toronto StarExpert says DNA on Brian McNamee's cotton balls match Roger ClemensToronto StarBrian McNamee, Clemens' former strength coach, earlier testified he collected the medical waste after injecting the pitcher with steroids. Clemens is accused of lying to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.  

Fox11online.comRoger Clemens DNA Matches Waste Keep By Brian McNameeSB NationThe Roger Clemens trial took a turn on Friday morning as the prosecution tested cotton balls which was stored stored in a beer can by Brian McNamee for seven years. The results from testing those cotton balls confirmed a Clemens match.Govt witness links medical waste to Clemens DNASeattle Post IntelligencerDNA on beer can needle 'likely' belongs to ClemensPekin Daily...  

Roger Clemens and attorney Rusty Hardin find forensic expert testifies that medical waste Clemens’ former trainer, Brian McNamee, turned over to government contains traces of the former Yankee pitcher’s DNA. WASHINGTON — If there is a ...  

Brian McNamee, [Roger] Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that he provided HGH to... Andy Pettitte and former Yankee infielder Chuck Knoblauch. McNamee also testified that former Yankee pitcher Mike Stanton obtained HGH... From Clemens' latest trial.  

David Segui hit pretty well off Roger Clemens in his career ... pretty significant in my view as it gives the jury an alternate, more Occam’s Razor-friendly explanation for why he would have kept them than the “this is all an elaborate ...  

CBC.caBrian McNamee says 3 players acquired HGHSan Francisco ChronicleBrian McNamee, Roger Clemens' former strength coach, finally got to name names in front of the jury at Clemens' federal perjury trial. Before Monday, McNamee had not been allowed to say that he provided former Clemens teammates Andy Pettitte and Chuck ...Prosecution witness Brian McNamee names 3 other players he says took HGH in ...Fox NewsRoger Clemens' Accuser Brian...  

The prosecution's star witness, trainer Brian McNamee, testified in Roger Clemens' federal perjury trial that he injected the former Cy Young winner with steroids up to 10 times when they were with Toronto in 1998. "I knew what I was doing was illegal," McNamee said. "I wish to God I could take it back."  

Roger Clemens’s chief accuser confided in a former Baltimore Orioles infielder years ago that he was keeping medical waste from the steroid injections he gave big league ballplayers, according to courtroom testimony. Read full article >>  

The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens’ longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that he provided HGH to current Yankee pitcher Andy Pettitte and former Yankee infielder Chuck Knoblauch. McNamee also testified that former Yankee pitcher Mike Stanton obtained HGH from drug dealer Kirk Radomski, after McNamee...  

WASHINGTON – Former major league baseball player David Segui said he recalled a conversation he ... That group included Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Mike Stanton. Clemens, Pettitte, Stanton and Segui were all included in the Mitchell Report, which named ...  

Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens' accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across as a sympathy ...  

concludes sixth week, he and attorney Rusty Hardin find forensic expert testifies that medical waste Clemens’ former trainer, Brian McNamee, turned over to government — some of which he stored in Miller Lite can — contains traces of the ...  

Clemens told Congress in 2008 that he never used those substances. Unlike most judges, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton permits jurors to submit questions, but not all get asked.  

McNamee testified at the Roger Clemens trial that he provided HGH to Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch after the judge permitted his statements.  

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens’ accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across ...  

But Judge Reggie Walton ruled Monday that Hardin opened the door Friday to having evidence of McNamee's HGH dealings with Pettitte, former Yankee second baseman Chuck Knoblauch and former Bombers relief pitcher Mike Stanton when the Houston ...  

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens’ accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across as a sympathy figure in the final moments of some 26 hours on the stand, a small counterweight to three days of brutal cross-examination.  

(AP) WASHINGTON - The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that he ...  

Brian McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that he provided HGH to current Yankee pitcher Andy Pettitte and former Yankee ... to name the players before, but U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said today he ...  

McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that he provided HGH to current Yankee pitcher Andy Pettitte and former Yankee infielder Chuck Knoblauch.  

WASHINGTON — Traces of DNA from pitching star Roger Clemens were found on two cotton balls and a single needle that were saved for seven years by former strength coach Brian McNamee, according to testimony Friday in the player's congressional perjury trial.  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that ...  

WASHINGTON — The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that he ...  

WASHINGTON – The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that he ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that ...  

Brian McNamee, the former baseball trainer who says he injected the 11-time All-Star pitcher with performance-enhancing substances, is allowed to name three other players for whom he says he provided or helped provide human growth hormone.WASHINGTON -- Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens' accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to...  

WASHINGTON — David Segui remembered “darts” but not dates ... With those words, Segui echoed the testimony of the six-week-old trial’s key witness. Brian McNamee told the jury last week that he saved a needle and other materials from ...  

Earlier government witnesses testified that steroids were found on the medical waste that Brian McNamee, Clemens' former strength coach, said he collected after injecting the pitcher with steroids in 2001. McNamee turned the materials over to federal ...  

Roger Clemens' DNA found on cotton balls and needle with steroids, expert ...Pasadena Star-NewsBy Frederic J. Frommer AP FILE - This photo provided by Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, is one of the photographs submitted to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in Washington on Feb. 7, 2008, by Brian McNamee, former personal ...and more »  

Whether the jurors were still keeping track is another matter: They again expressed concern about the agonizingly slow pace of a perjury trial that still has weeks to go, and the judge opined that Clemens' lawyer was "confusing everybody." Brian McNamee ...  

McNamee, a former trainer, claims he repeatedly injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone between 1998 and 2001. In testimony to Congress in 2008 Clemens denied using the drugs, which prosecutors argue was a lie. Clemens lawyer Rusty Hardin ...  

Judge Reggie Walton handed prosecutors a major victory with his ruling allowing the government to call two witnesses whose testimony will be used to bolster Brian McNamee’s credibility. The prosecution petitioned Judge Walton to allow them to ...  

Brian McNamee, the key government witness against Roger Clemens, said that he had also provided two other players with HGH. Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel and umpire Bob Davidson were each banned by the MLB following a nose-to-nose ...  

WASHINGTON — Former Major League Baseball player David Segui may be called to testify in the ... conversation between Segui and Clemens' former personal trainer Brian McNamee, who has said he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth ...  

Prosecutors called ex-Major League Baseball player David Segui to to the witness stand in the perjury trial of Roger Clemens, claiming his testimony will back Brian McNamee’s story on use of performance-enhancing drugs by the former New York ...  

Brian McNamee, Roger Clemens’ chief accuser, testified that he provided performance-enhancing drugs to New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch, who played with Clemens while with the Yankees, and Mike Stanton, a native of Houston who was ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge in the Roger Clemens perjury case ruled Thursday that the government can call former major leaguer David Segui and another man to testify about conversations they had with Clemens' chief accuser, Brian McNamee.  

The judge presiding over the perjury trial of ex-New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens said prosecutors can call witnesses for testimony they say will back drug accusations of Clemens’s former trainer, Brian McNamee. Federal prosecutors told ...  

Alan Keel, forensic scientist and witness for the prosecution, is on the witness stand at Roger Clemens’ perjury trial this morning preparing to link Clemens to the medical waste in the beer can retained by Brian McNamee for seven years. McNamee ...  

WASHINGTON — Prosecutors finally have some momentum in their perjury case against Roger Clemens, even if it means dragging in former major leaguer David Segui ... by Clemens’ strength coach, Brian McNamee, that McNamee had saved evidence ...  

As Roger Clemens’ perjury trial continued Friday morning, his attorney, Rusty Hardin may have opened the door to an area Hardin has desperately tried to keep closed — that Brian McNamee provided steroids and human growth hormone to other ...  

The judge in the Roger Clemens perjury case ruled Thursday that the government can call former major leaguer David Segui and another man to testify about conversations they had with Clemens' chief accuser, Brian McNamee.  

The judge in the Roger Clemens perjury case ruled Thursday that the government can call former major leaguer David Segui and another man to testify about conversations they had with Clemens' chief accuser, Brian McNamee. Learn who the key players are in ...  

Roger Clemens’ former trainer, Brian McNamee, delivered some damning testimony against the retired baseball great.  McNamee claims that in 1998 Clemens asked him for the very first of many, ‘booty shots’- steroid injections into the buttocks. Federal prosecutors accuse Clemens of lying to Congress in 2008 when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.  Clemens, 49 years old, denies he lied … Keep Reading  

Clemens is charged with lying to Congress when he testified in 2008 that he had never used steroids or human growth hormone. Eyewitness News reporter ... former teammate Andy Pettitte and to bring in information from the divorce of his chief accuser ...  

WASHINGTON -- Chided by the judge for what he called a confusing and mostly pointless cross-examination, Roger Clemens' lawyer is finally turning after 19 hours to his central accusation: that Brian McNamee doctored physical evidence to frame ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) - The judge in the Roger Clemens perjury case ruled Thursday that the government can call former major leaguer David Segui and another man to testify about conversations they had with Clemens' chief accuser, Brian McNamee.  

WASHINGTON – Roger Clemens' defense attorney Rusty Hardin hammered away at government witness Brian McNamee, seeking to ravage his ... Taking it a step further, Hardin asserted that as long as McNamee stuck by his previous statements during the ongoing ...  

The judge in the Roger Clemens perjury case ruled Thursday that the government can call former major leaguer David Segui and another man to testify about conversations they had with Clemens' chief accuser, Brian McNamee. Prosecutors hope that Segui and ...  

May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Brian McNamee, the government's only eyewitness to Roger Clemens's alleged use of performance enhancing drugs, was permitted to name other former New York Yankees who allegedly used human growth hormone. McNamee, testifying ...  

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee, the chief prosecution witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, conceded Thursday he initially lied about his involvement with steroids. In January 2007, McNamee sent an email to Jim Murray, an employee of the ...  

WASHINGTON -- Roger Clemens' lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government's chief witness of "making up this stuff on the fly." The attorney finally sprung his trap and pointed out what appeared to be a flaw in McNamee's story about the collection of evidence that turned up in a beer can.McNamee's explanations: "I misspoke; I'm sorry" and "It's...  

Roger Clemens’ defense attorney hammered the baseball legend’s chief accuser Thursday, trying to portray the former strength coach as spinning an evolving tale to avoid jail. As the cross-examination of Brian McNamee continued for a second ...  

WASHINGTON—Brian McNamee described for jurors a relationship with Roger Clemens that had the hallmarks of an illicit affair — except their secret ... I’m done with it.” That was after Clemens had developed an abscess on his buttocks.  

At Clemens' trial, McNamee testifies that the pitcher asked about steroids and said, 'I want to get really huge, I want to get strong.' A defense lawyer asks: 'Mr. McNamee, do you sometimes just make stuff up?'WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee, the key prosecution witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, said he had never made up details about the pitcher's drug use, but that some of his memories of it had become clearer over time.  

Brian McNamee has long been considered the key to both the prosecution and defense of Roger Clemens in his current trial for perjury, and this week's cross-examination of McNamee has amped up the drama and surreality of the entire proceeding.  

And we thought Andy Pettitte testifying against Roger Clemens, his former idol, mentor and friend, was awkward enough. Who was ready for the romantic recollections of Brian McNamee's first time feeling on Roger Clemens' ass? Ready or not ...  

WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens' lawyer toyed with Brian McNamee's memory and attacked him from ... McNamee has frequently taken long pauses before answering questions in three days on the witness stand, but he didn't hesitate this time.  

Brian McNamee, the government’s only eyewitness to Roger Clemens’s alleged use of performance enhancing drugs, was permitted to name other former New York Yankees who allegedly used human growth hormone. McNamee, testifying for a sixth day i ...  

Attorney Rusty Hardin aggressively questions McNamee, the key government witness in former pitcher Clemens' perjury trial, but misses the 'home run' that might undermine former trainer's credibility.WASHINGTON — Rusty Hardin, lead attorney for Roger Clemens, got the former pitcher's chief accuser to admit to a series of lies in a day of aggressive cross examination, but did not undermine his credibility with a single grand stroke.  

Brian McNamee, one of the Government’s most powerful and potentially damaging witnesses, finally appeared in Court the last few days and delivered crucial testimony for prosecutors. By testifying, McNamee provided powerful evidence for the ...  

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens’ accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across as a ...  

Federal prosecutors had filed a motion to bring Segui as a witness in order to question him about a conversation between Segui and Clemens' former personal trainer Brian McNamee, who has said he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone.  

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens' accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. The government's ...  

WASHINGTON — The judge in the Roger Clemens perjury case ruled today that the government can call former major leaguer David Segui and another man to testify about conversations they had with Clemens’ chief accuser, Brian McNamee ...  

WASHINGTON - The judge in the Roger Clemens perjury case ruled Thursday that the government can call former major leaguer David Segui and another man to testify about conversations they had with Clemens' chief accuser, Brian McNamee. Prosecutors ...  

WASHINGTON - Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens’s accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across as a sympathy figure in the final moments of some 26 hours on the stand, a small counterweight to three days of brutal cross-examination.  

WASHINGTON — In another grueling day of cross-examination that frustrated all sides, Roger Clemens’ accuser put Jose Canseco’s pool party on the wrong day of the week and switched years on Debbie Clemens’ human growth hormone shot. Whether the jurors were still keeping track is another matter: They again expressed concern about the agonizingly slow pace of a perjury trial that still has weeks to go, and the judge opined that Clemens’ lawyer...  

WASHINGTON - Prosecutors finally have some momentum in their perjury case against Roger Clemens, even if it means dragging in former major leaguer David Segui ... by Clemens’s strength coach, Brian McNamee, that McNamee had saved evidence ...  

WASHINGTON - Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens' accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across as a sympathy figure in the final moments of some 26 hours on the stand, a small counterweight to three days of brutal cross-examination. read more  

Former major-leaguer David Segui is on the verge of having to testify in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, even though he doesn't want to. Prosecutors want Segui to relate a conservation he had with Clemens' former strength coach, Brian McNamee, in 2001.  

The prosecution's star witness, trainer Brian McNamee, testified in Roger Clemens' federal perjury trial that he injected the former Cy Young winner with steroids up to 10 times when they were with Toronto in 1998. "I knew what I was doing was ...  

Walton said that the case is dragging on too long, and that jurors want to get back to their lives. He warned that one side could suffer — although he didn't know which one. "Like flipping a coin — 50/50," Walton quipped, a reference to ...  

McNamee, the government’s star witness, looked nervous in his tan suit and fresh haircut, but soon warmed up under questioning from prosecutor Daniel Butler. McNamee described leaving his Blue Jays post during the 1998 season and heading back ...  

In January 2007, McNamee sent an email to Jim Murray, an employee of the agency that represents Clemens, complaining about "gross inaccuracies" in a newspaper story that identified him as a steroids supplier. He also claimed in the email he had ...  

WASHINGTON -- Strength coach Brian McNamee said he felt "creepy" injecting Roger Clemens' wife Debbie with human growth hormone at Clemens' Houston home in 2003. McNamee, who could be the government's only witness to say he saw Roger Clemens use ...  

Roger Clemens’ former strength coach saved medical waste from injections he said he gave the pitching legend in case “something did go wrong,” he testified Tuesday. Brian McNamee said his relationship with the baseball star led to marital problems, and that his wife pressed him to do something to protect himself because he had a “history of taking hits for people and always getting in trouble.” Read full article >>  

WASHINGTON — In another grueling day of cross-examination that frustrated all sides, Roger Clemens’ accuser put Jose Canseco’s pool party on the wrong day of the week and switched years on Debbie Clemens’ human growth hormone shot.  

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee, the chief prosecution witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, conceded he initially lied about his involvement with steroids. Clemens lawyer Rusty Hardin said to McNamee, "It was a lie wasn’t it?" McNamee said ...  

Former trainer Brian McNamee arrives at the federal court in Washington on Monday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) McNamee was the strength and conditioning coach for the Blue Jays at the time. McNamee is the chief witness in the trial of the seven-time ...  

WASHINGTON -- Brian McNamee testified that Roger Clemens' lawyers pushed ... Clemens meant McNamee didn't have time to take his wife and children to water parks and other family outings, he said, and his wife was concerned that her husband ...  

It took him a few seconds to recall his wedding date -- perhaps understandable, given he's going through a divorce -- and he initially said ... But the judge said again that defense lawyers cannot mention that McNamee was investigated for ...  

WASHINGTON-aaFormer major league baseball player David Segui said he recalled a conversation he had with Roger Clemens' former strength coach, Brian McNamee, back in 2001 in which McNamee said he kept "darts"-aai.e., needles-aafrom injecting players with ...  

In his second meeting with prosecutors, he increased the number by another four or five. "They were deciding what the truth was, weren't they?" Hardin asked. "That's not accurate," McNamee said. Also Thursday, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton ...  

The Star-Ledger - NJ.comBrian McNamee saved Roger Clemens' medical waste after wife complainedThe Star-Ledger - NJ.comBy AP Brendan Hoffman/GettyRoger Clemens' perjury trial continued today with more testimony from Brian McNamee, above, the prosecution's central witness. WASHINGTON — Amid his year-by-year narrative of his complex relationship with Roger Clemens and ...Clemens accuser Brian McNamee: 'I didn't make it up'Boston HeraldBrian...  

McNamee testified that Clemens' lawyers pushed him from reluctant turncoat to angry accuser when they allowed details of McNamee's oldest son's illness to be revealed during a nationally televised news conference.  

Prosecutors in the Roger Clemens perjury trial scored a victory Monday morning when the judge ruled that Brian McNamee can identify three Yankees whom he knew used human growth hormone, including current pitcher Andy Pettitte.  

Former major leaguer David Segui (seh-GEE') is on the verge of having to testify in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, even though he doesn't want to. Prosecutors want Segui to relate a conservation he had with Clemens' former strength coach, Brian McNamee ...  

WASHINGTON -- Trainer Brian McNamee testified in the Roger Clemens perjury trial Monday that he was the source for human growth hormone used by Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte in 2002 -- potentially damaging testimony to Clemens that defense ...  

WASHINGTON -- The longtime head athletic trainer of the New York Yankees once wrote that Roger Clemens "maintains complete confidence and respect" for strength coach Brian McNamee. Gene Monahan, who retired last year, testified Wednesday in the ...  

Hardin had said in court Tuesday that McNamee auctioned it online. McNamee’s attorney, Richard Emery, informed the judge that that was a false statement made in bad faith since the tie is still in McNamee’s possession. Hardin did get McNamee ...  

WASHINGTON — The longtime head athletic trainer of the New York Yankees on Wednesday challenged claims by pitching star Roger Clemens that he had received locker-room injections of liquid vitamin B-12 from strength coach Brian McNamee. Gene Monahan told ...  

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens’ accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across as a sympathy figure in the final moments of some 26 hours on the stand, a small counterweight to three days of brutal cross-examination.  

Clemens is charged with lying when he told Congress in 2008 that he never used steroids or human growth hormone. McNamee has testified he injected Clemens with both, and the credibility of Clemens' former friend and longtime strength coach will ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens' accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across as a sympathy figure in the final moments of some 26 hours on the stand, a small counterweight to three days of brutal cross-examination.  

WASHINGTON - Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens' accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across as ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Among the 29 questions the Roger Clemens jury wanted to ask the pitcher's chief accuser, Brian McNamee, one cut to the heart of the case. "Why should we believe you when you have shown so many inconsistencies in your testimonies?"...  

Brian McNamee testified on Monday that he first injected Roger Clemens with steroids about eight to 10 times when they were with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998.  

He said he had told his wife about the injections. He said he wanted to do something that would make his wife stop giving him a "hard time every single day," so he took a swab and cotton ball from a Clemens' steroid injection in 2001 ...  

Former Major League player David Segui testified in Washington on Thursday that ... Segui was testifying on behalf of the prosecution in Clemens' perjury trial, and he said Brian McNamee, Clemens trainer, told him in a telephone conversation in 2001 ...  

WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens’ experiments with performance-enhancing drugs began in a Toronto hotel suite in 1998, according to Brian McNamee, the government’s star witness in the pitcher’s perjury trial. "Roger had come to me in the locker room and ...  

WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens’ lawyer toyed with Brian McNamee’s memory and attacked him from several directions at once. The attorney even put an easel next to the witness with the words: "MISTAKE. BAD MEMORY. LIE." Eventually, there came the ...  

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The judge presiding over the perjury trial of ex-pitcher Roger Clemens may rule tomorrow on a request by prosecutors to allow two people to give testimony they say will back their star witness Brian McNamee’s drug accusations. Federal ...  

WASHINGTON - Prosecutors finally have some momentum in their perjury case against Roger Clemens, even if it means dragging in former major leaguer David Segui ... was told by Clemens' strength coach, Brian McNamee, that McNamee had saved evidence from ...  

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton. Roger Clemens’ accuser also apologized for the medical condition that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across as a ...  

WASHINGTON -- Brian McNamee testified Monday that he injected former Yankees star Roger Clemens with anabolic steroids for the first time in June 1998 at the direction of Clemens and with a milky white performance-enhancing drug that the pitcher ...  

WASHINGTON -- Brian McNamee conceded that the first time Roger Clemens ... "It's one reason, to be honest, I got out early," from being a lawyer, the judge said. "That's what our political world is now, and it's coming into the court," he ...  

WASHINGTON -- Judge Reggie Walton on Thursday morning ruled in favor of a government motion to add former Major Leaguer David Segui and Wall Street investment manager Anthony Corso ... consistent statements Brian McNamee, Clemens' former ...  

WASHINGTON — Among the 29 questions the Roger Clemens jury wanted to ask the pitcher’s chief accuser, Brian McNamee, one cut to the heart of the case. “Why should we believe you when you have shown so many inconsistencies in your testimonies?”  

WASHINGTON -- The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that he ...  

Brian McNamee on his relationship with Roger Clemens According ... That year was the beginning of a decade-long relationship that soured when McNamee, facing legal trouble, told investigators he had injected the seven-time Cy Young Award winner ...  

WASHINGTON -- The longtime head athletic trainer of the New York Yankees once wrote that Roger Clemens "maintains complete confidence and respect" for strength coach Brian McNamee. Gene Monahan, who retired last year, testified Wednesday in the perjury ...  

By JOSEPH WHITE, Associated PressWASHINGTON -- Speaking softly, nervously and in detail, Brian McNamee testified about the life-changing moment when, he said, he first gave Roger Clemens a "booty shot" of steroids.The government's star witness in the Clemens perjury retrial took the stand Monday and told the jury that he injected one of baseball's most successful pitchers with steroids about eight to 10 times when they were with the Toronto...  

The attorneys also argued that allowing the defense to introduce the records would violate their privacy and damage the couple's three children. Pettitte, Clemens' longtime teammate, testified two weeks ago that Clemens said he had used HGH ...  

The jury in the Roger Clemens' perjury trial did not sit on Tuesday, but Judge Reggie Walton and the lawyers for both sides conferred on Walton's unusual practice of allowing jurors to put questions directly to government witness Brian McNamee.  

WASHINGTON-aaThe beer can that prosecution witness Brian McNamee allegedly stuffed with medical waste is circa 2001 and Roger Clemens was in the pool at Jose Canseco's party in June, 1998 according to separate witnesses at the Clemens perjury trial on Monday.  

WASHINGTON -- The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone, including former Giants relief pitcher Mike Stanton. Brian McNamee, Clemens' longtime ...  

WASHINGTON - Roger Clemens' lawyer toyed with Brian McNamee's memory and attacked him from several directions at once. The attorney even put an easel next to the witness with the words: "MISTAKE. BAD MEMORY. LIE." Eventually, there came the inevitable question: "Do you sometimes just make stuff up?"  

WASHINGTON (AP) - The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that he provided ...  

WASHINGTON -- Brian McNamee took the stand in the Roger Clemens perjury ... the position he held when he first met the pitcher. McNamee's long-awaited appearance at the trial in the hour before lunch filled the seats in the courtroom after ...  

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee has testified that he first injected Roger Clemens with steroids when they were with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998. McNamee said today he injected Clemens in the buttocks in Clemens’ apartment at the pitcher’s ...  

In an effort to inoculate some of the potential damage, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Butler asked McNamee about his two drunk driving offenses within six months, his lies to police in a Florida criminal investigation and his own use of steroids and HGH.  

"Roger pulled down his pants, exposing his right buttocks cheek to me," McNamee said ... Walton also granted motions filed by McNamee and his estranged wife's law firm to quash a Clemens subpoena for divorce records. The judge called the ...  

New York Daily NewsBrian McNamee, who says he injected Roger Clemens with steroids and HGH ...New York Daily NewsWASHINGTON - In his opening statement in Roger Clemens' perjury trial, prosecutor Steven Durham told the jury that attorney Rusty Hardin would “save his sharpest knives” for Brian McNamee, the ex-Yankee's former trainer and chief steroid accuser in the ...Brian Cashman paints Brian McNamee as disruptive YankeeUSA TODAY (blog)Yankees...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least one of the jurors in the Roger Clemens perjury trial has some concerns about a key witness' credibility.A transcript released Tuesday reveals that one of the jurors wanted to ask Brian McNamee: "Why should we believe you when you have shown so many inconsistencies in your testimonies?"It was one of 29 written questions submitted by jurors after the testimony from Clemens' longtime strength coach. McNamee says he...  

Brian McNamee testifies his wife's dire warnings spurred him to keep used needle, syringe and steroid ampule he took from ex-pitcher's trash. They now are critical pieces in government's perjury case.WASHINGTON — An anxious wife drove Brian McNamee to hold on to evidence of Roger Clemens' steroid use for self-protection, the former trainer testified at the former pitcher's federal perjury trial.  

Among the 29 questions the Roger Clemens jury wanted to ask the pitcher's chief accuser, Brian McNamee, one cut to the heart of the case. ''I won't ask that,'' U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton declared during a bench conference with trial ...  

The trial judge opened Brian McNamee’s last day on the stand this morning with a ruling permitting prosecutors to elicit testimony from the former strength coach that he provided performance enhancing drugs to three other players in addition to Roger ...  

Former trainer Brian McNamee testifies at federal perjury trial the ex-pitcher had steroids laid out at his Toronto hotel room, and tells of other usage that season before Clemens said he was 'done.'WASHINGTON  -- Roger Clemens' experiments with performance-enhancing drugs began in a Toronto hotel suite in 1998, according to Brian McNamee, the government's star witness in the pitcher's perjury trial.  

WASHINGTON — The Roger Clemens perjury trial resumes with the final day of testimony from Brian McNamee, the government’s key witness. McNamee, Clemens’ former strength coach, says he injected the former pitcher with steroids and human growth hormone.  

Brian McNamee wrapped up six days of testimony at Roger Clemens' perjury trial on Monday, according multiple reports, and another witness claimed later in the day he saw Clemens at Jose Canseco's party in June 1998, a party Clemens said he did not attend.  

WASHINGTON - Halfway through Brian McNamee's testimony Tuesday a federal prosecutor asked the former Yankee trainer why he saved the steroid-laced needles and bloodstained medical waste that is central to the Roger Clemens perjury trial.  

Roger Clemens’s chief accuser took the witness stand in the baseball legend’s perjury trial Monday, testifying in vivid detail about steroid injections he said he gave his former friend and his regret at having done so. “Enabling a star ...  

Prosecutors in the Roger Clemens perjury trial filed a motion Tuesday arguing that prior statements made by Brian McNamee prove that neither lied about Clemens' doping nor sought fame by telling authorities about the Rocket's PED use.  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Major League Baseball player David Segui can be called to testify in the ... a conversation between Segui and Clemens' former personal trainer Brian McNamee, who has said he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth ...  

Strength coach Brian McNamee felt "creepy" injecting Roger Clemens' wife, Debbie, with human growth hormone at the couple's Houston home in 2003, he testified Tuesday at the former pitcher's federal perjury trial....  

Brian McNamee, the chief prosecution witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, conceded he initially lied about his involvement with steroids. WASHINGTON -- Brian McNamee, the chief prosecution witness in Roger Clemens' perjury trial, conceded he ...  

WASHINGTON – The beer can that prosecution witness Brian McNamee allegedly stuffed with medical ... the jury was shown photos of a bleached-blond Clemens in the pool with then-11-year-old Alexander Lowrey, a neighbor of Canseco's. Lowrey testified ...  

Their prime witness, Brian McNamee, testified that some physical evidence, contained in a crumpled beer can, came from players other than Clemens. McNamee, Clemens’ personal strength coach, said the beer can as well as HGH-related items in the ...  

The jurors in the perjury trial of Roger Clemens got a chance to clear their understanding of the pitcher’s intertwined case when the presiding federal judge allowed them today to question Clemens’ No. 1 accuser, Brian McNamee. The jury asked more than ...  

WASHINGTON – Pitching legend Roger Clemens suffered a setback at his perjury trial Monday with testimony from prosecution witness Brian McNamee that complicated Clemens’ claims that McNamee was targeting him with incriminating evidence to obtain ...  

Brian McNamee, the only witness who claims to have seen Roger Clemens use steroids, returned to the stand Monday for his sixth and final day as the government's most important witness. It was a grueling experience for Clemens' former trainer and chief accuser, who endured a battering of questions, accusations and even insults during cross-examination.  

WASHINGTON - The Roger Clemens perjury trial resumes with the final day of testimony from Brian McNamee, the government's key witness. McNamee, Clemens' former strength coach, says he injected the former pitcher with steroids and human growth ...  

WASHINGTON - Brian McNamee, the key government witness in the perjury trial of former baseball star Roger Clemens over the use of banned drugs, said on Monday that he had also provided two other players with human growth hormone and helped a third obtain ...  

WASHINGTON -- At least one of the jurors in the Roger Clemens perjury trial has some concerns about a key witness' credibility. A transcript released Tuesday reveals that one of the jurors wanted to ask Brian McNamee: "Why should we believe you when you ...  

WASHINGTON – Defense attorney Rusty Hardin asked star government witness Brian McNamee: "Do you sometimes make stuff up?" But jurors in the Roger Clemens perjury trial got precious little to chew on Wednesday as lawyers for both sides battled over their ...  

WASHINGTON - Rusty Hardin opened his cross examination Tuesday with questions about a tie Brian McNamee wore when he appeared before the grand jury investigating whether Roger Clemens lied to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chided by the judge for what he called a confusing and mostly pointless cross-examination, Roger Clemens' lawyer is finally turning after 19 hours to his central accusation: that Brian McNamee doctored physical evidence to frame the former star pitcher.  

Brian McNamee, Roger Clemens' longtime strength coach, testified Tuesday that it was his own wife who nagged him into keeping evidence that has become crucial in the federal perjury trial in Washington, D.C. The former...  

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Roger Clemens perjury trial resumes with the final day of testimony from Brian McNamee, the government's key witness. McNamee, Clemens' former strength coach, says he injected the former pitcher with steroids and human growth hormone.  

Former trainer Brian McNamee arrives at the federal court in Washington, Monday, May 14, 2012. WASHINGTON (AP) - Brian McNamee testified Tuesday he saved medical waste after injecting Roger Clemens with steroids because his wife complained that ...  

WASHINGTON -- The Roger Clemens perjury trial resumes with the final day of testimony from Brian McNamee, the government's key witness. McNamee, Clemens' former strength coach, says he injected the former pitcher with steroids and human growth hormone.  

WASHINGTON - The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength and conditioning coach, told jurors that he ...  

WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens’ lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government’s chief witness of “making up this stuff on the fly.& ...  

WASHINGTON -- Brian McNamee conceded that the first time Roger Clemens asked for help with a "booty shot," the pitcher did not specifically use the word "steroids." Under cross-examination from Clemens' lawyer, McNamee said that he assumed ...  

Houston-based defense lawyer Rusty Hardin this morning relentlessly tried to peel away the credibility of the prosecution’s star witness in Roger Clemens’ congressional perjury trial. By the time the day’s proceedings adjourned shortly after noon ...  

The RepublicGovernment expected to present DNA evidence linking Clemens to medical waste ...The RepublicFREDERIC J. FROMMER AP WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens' genetic makeup helped make him one of the most successful pitchers in baseball history. Now prosecutors hope that Clemens' own DNA will help them convict him of a federal crime.Clemens' DNA formally linked to medical waste retained by Brian McNameeHouston Chronicle (blog)Scientist testifies...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brian McNamee says he saved medical waste after injecting Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs because his wife complained that McNamee was going to be the fall guy. McNamee testified in Clemens' perjury trial Tuesday...  

The prosecution's star witness underwent a withering cross-examination on Thursday at Roger Clemens' perjury trial. Brian McNamee is the only person with firsthand evidence that contradicts the baseball-pitching ace, but is he a believable witness?  

Brian McNamee conceded that the first time Roger Clemens asked for help with a "booty shot," the pitcher did not specifically use the word "steroids." Under cross-examination from Clemens' lawyer, McNamee said that he...  

Clemens is on trial for allegedly lying to Congress in 2008 when he denied using steroids or human growth hormone. Former trainer Brian McNamee testified he injected the former pitcher multiples times in98, 2000 and 2001.  

When the Roger Clemens perjury trial began last month, the lead prosecutor told jurors that the pitcher’s lawyers would “save their sharpest knives” for government witness Brian McNamee, the personal trainer who has accused Clemens, his former client, of doping.  

WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens’ lawyer toyed with Brian McNamee’s memory and attacked him from several directions at once. The attorney even put an easel next to the witness with the words: “MISTAKE. BAD MEMORY. LIE.” Eventually, there came the inevitable question: “Do you sometimes just make stuff up?”  

Brian McNamee, former trainer of Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens, arrives for the continuation of trial at the federal courthouse in Washington May 14, 2012. McNamee, a key witness in Clemens' federal perjury trial. (REUTERS) Brian McNamee ...  

WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens' lawyer toyed with Brian McNamee's memory and attacked him from several directions at once. The attorney even put an easel next to the witness with the words: "MISTAKE. BAD MEMORY. LIE." Eventually, there came the inevitable question: "Do you sometimes just make stuff up?"  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chided by the judge for what he called a confusing and mostly pointless cross-examination, Roger Clemens' lawyer is finally turning after 19 hours to his central accusation: that Brian McNamee doctored physical evidence to frame the former star pitcher. Broaching the subject at the end of the day Thursday, lawyer Rusty Hardin put up a pi...  

WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens’ lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government’s chief witness of “making up this stuff on the fly.” The attorney finally sprung his trap and pointed out what appeared to be a flaw in McNamee’s story about the collection of evidence that turned up in a beer can.  

WASHINGTON-aaThe beer can that prosecution witness Brian McNamee allegedly stuffed with medical ... photos of a bleached-blonde Clemens in the pool with then-11-year-old Alexander Lowrey, a neighbor of Canseco’s. Lowrey testified that he ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Clemens' lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government's chief witness of "making up this stuff on the fly." The attorney finally sprung his trap and pointed out what appeared to be a flaw in McNamee's story about the collection of evidence that turned up in a beer can.  

WASHINGTON ­— Amid his year-by-year narrative of his complex relationship with Roger Clemens and performance-enhancing drugs, Brian McNamee weaved in a tale of two wives. He said it was his own wife who nagged him into keeping evidence that h ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brian McNamee conceded that the first time Roger Clemens asked for help with a "booty shot," the pitcher did not specifically use the word "steroids." Under cross-examination from Clemens' lawyer, McNamee said that he assumed ...  

The Star-Ledger - NJ.comBrian McNamee holds his own with Rusty Hardin in long day on stand in Roger ...New York Daily NewsThe target was government witness Brian McNamee, whose resigned demeanor and mumbled Queens accent could not possibly have contrasted more radically with Hardin's florid outrage and Southern twang. At the end of the day, no one could be sure if ...Brian McNamee: 'I didn't make it up'ESPNBrian McNamee testifies not all...  

Brian McNamee arrived at a federal court in Washington Monday. McNamee, Roger Clemens' chief accuser, is expected to testify in what could be a make-or-break moment for the prosecution as it seeks to convict Clemens of perjury. (May 14)  

Brian McNamee conceded that his memory of some details about the pitcher's alleged use of steroids and HGH has evolved over the years, and that he initially told some lies during the investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.  

Updated 4:38 p.m. Slouched in his chair and speaking in a low voice, Brian McNamee presented himself as an unwilling participant in the high-profile probe of steroid use in Major League Baseball. McNamee told jurors this afternoon in the perjury...  

At New York's Yankee Stadium in 2000, Roger Clemens told his strength coach: “I’m ready to start up again.” The strength coach, Brian McNamee, recalled the conversation Tuesday in testimony in the perjury case against Clemens, accused of lying to...  

WASHINGTON — Speaking softly, nervously and in detail, Brian McNamee testified about the life-changing moment when, he said, he first gave Roger Clemens a "booty shot" of steroids. The government’s star witness in the Clemens perjury retrial...  

WASHINGTON - Amid his year-by-year narrative of his complex relationship with Roger Clemens and performance-enhancing drugs, Brian McNamee weaved in a tale of two wives. He said it was his own wife who nagged him into keeping evidence that has become crucial in the trial of the storied pitcher, and it was a request from Clemens' wife that led to what McNamee called a "creepy" injection scene in a bathroom.  

More than four years since he and Roger Clemens gave contradictory testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Brian McNamee appeared before U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton over the last two days to answer questions from government prosecutors. In doing so, he provided the most pivotal testimony yet in U.S. v. Clemens. McNamee also set the table for a contentious showdown with Clemens' lawyers as they cross-examine...  

Updated 4:42 p.m. The chief government witness against Roger Clemens took the witness stand Monday afternoon, starting the most anticipated and controversial testimony in the perjury trial against the former baseball star. Brian McNamee is a former New York City...  

WASHINGTON -- Roger Clemens' lawyer toyed with Brian McNamee's memory and attacked him from several directions at once. The attorney even put an easel next to the witness with the words: "MISTAKE. BAD MEMORY. LIE." Eventually, there came the inevitable ...  

WASHINGTON -- Brian McNamee, the government's star witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, admitted under defense questioning Thursday that he lied repeatedly to federal and professional baseball steroid investigators when they asked him ...  

The key witness in Roger Clemens' perjury trial stuck to his testimony that the former baseball ace used performance-enhancing drugs even as the defence hammered him for saying he had lied to investigators. Brian McNamee, Clemens' former trainer, faced ...  

WASHINGTON – Prosecutors in the Roger Clemens perjury trial suffered a potentially damaging blow Friday morning when their prime witness, Brian McNamee, testified that some physical evidence, contained in a crumpled beer can, came from players other than ...  

Brian McNamee, former trainer of Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington May 16, 2012. (REUTERS/Yuri Gripas) The key witness in ex-baseball pitching ace Roger Clemens’ perjury trial testified on ...  

Brian McNamee testified Tuesday he saved medical waste after injecting Roger Clemens with steroids because his wife complained that McNamee was going to be the fall guy.    McNamee said his wife, Eileen, told him, “You’re going to go down! You’re going to go down! You’re going to go down!”   McNamee, Clemens’ former strength coach, has said he injected...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Clemens' lawyer accused the baseball legend's former strength coach of changing testimony "on the fly," and the judge in the perjury trial imposed a time limit Friday on all future witnesses in an effort to speed things up. Under relentless questioning in his fifth day on the stand, Brian McNamee admitted he "misspoke" while explaining some of the medical evidence he saved in a beer can. "Isn't this a classic example of...  

Law360, Washington (May 16, 2012, 3:19 PM ET) -- Roger Clemens’ former strength coach Brian McNamee admitted Wednesday in Washington federal court that he had no physical evidence the pitcher used steroids prior to 1998, but said he had overheard Clemens ...  

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee has conceded that the first time Roger Clemens asked for help with a “booty shot,” the pitcher did not specifically use the word “steroids.” Under cross-examination from Clemens’ lawyer, McNamee said that he assumed ...  

WASHINGTON -- Brian McNamee testified Friday that some of the medical evidence he saved in a beer can was not used on former pitcher Roger Clemens. McNamee is the main prosecution witness in the case against Clemens, who is accused of lying to Congress ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaking softly, nervously and in detail, Brian McNamee testified about the life-changing moment when, he said, he first gave Roger Clemens a "booty shot" of steroids. The government's star witness in the Clemens perjury retrial...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sports trainer Brian McNamee has described for jurors a relationship with baseball pitcher Roger Clemens that had the hallmarks of an illicit affair — except their secret was steroids. "Roger would ask me, 'What are you doing? Are you available tonight?' I knew exactly what he was talking about," McNamee said Monday, in the first day of ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Clemens' lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government's chief witness of "making up this stuff on the fly." The attorney...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Clemens' lawyer has been grilling a key witness about his memory -- and his honesty -- at the pitcher's perjury trial today.Clemens told a congressional hearing in 2008 that he never used steroids or human growth hormone. But former strength coach Brian McNamee has testified that he injected Clemens with both.Defense lawyer Rusty Hardin put an easel next to the witness stand with the words "MISTAKE," ''BAD MEMORY" and...  

WASHINGTON — During another seven grueling hours of cross-examination that frustrated all sides, Roger Clemens' accuser explained the evidence he kept in a beer can — and why his story about it has changed. Brian McNamee was on the stand Thursday for a ...  

Roger Clemens' lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government's chief witness of "making up this stuff on the fly." The attorney finally sprung his trap and ...  

(05-15) 10:29 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Brian McNamee testified Tuesday he saved medical waste after injecting Roger Clemens with steroids because his wife complained that McNamee was going to be the fall guy. McNamee said...  

The government’s star witness in the perjury trial of legendary pitcher Roger Clemens conceded Thursday that he confused critical dates, lied to federal agents and repeatedly changed elements of his story. But Brian McNamee, a former strength ...  

WASHINGTON -- Brian McNamee says some of the medical evidence he saved in a beer can was not used on former pitcher Roger Clemens. McNamee is the main prosecution witness in the case against Clemens, who's accused of lying to Congress when he denied using ...