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Clemens denies drug use again

February 8th, 2008

Roger Clemens has gone back to court to try yet again to pursue a denial that he ever used performance enhancing drugs of any kind. He spent four hours with the lawyers from a congress committee and had to provide a sworn statement soon after one of his teammates presented their testimony.

Clemens had been accused of not only using steroids, but HGH as well. Brian McNamee, his former trainer, said Clemens had started on the steroids way back in 1998 when he was with the Toronto Blue Jays. McNamee also stated that he had given Clemens some of these injections himself. Clemens claimed the injections were nothing more than B12 and Lidocaine shots.

Clemens is also the third player from the Major League of Baseball to be fingered by McNamee. One of the players, Pettitte actually said he did use HGH in 2002 while trying to come back from an injury. The hearing did find that the two, Clemens and Pettitte, were old friends and did do some training together.

Apparently, all of this press hasn’t hurt Clemens in anyway. He showed up in George Steinbrenner’s own personal private box and negotiated a $28 million dollar contract for himself. So he must have done something right.

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