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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.
February 8th, 2008
The big news in baseball today is the move of the Richmond Virginia Braves to Atlanta. The team has been in Richmond for almost forty years. Since the mayor of the City of Richmond couldn’t figure out how or where to build them a new stadium, the Braves have taken an offer to go to Atlanta. The old stadium needs repair badly. They have rat infestations, no drainage on the field, and there is concrete that falls at inopportune minutes that could possibly hit someone in the head. The city has offered suggestions, but none have come to fruition. The Braves will be leaving at the end of the season.
Across the land in San Francisco, the Giants are trying to develop a new parking lot right next to their ballpark. The small strip mall will include several clubs, shops, and a place for musicians to give concerts. Usually they have around 2000 cars parked for every game. The strip mall will bite into that space. The Giants are hopeful that the new parking lot will help solve that problem. If not, they will have to look into other arenas for meeting their fan’s parking needs. They don’t want to lose any if they can help it.
February 5th, 2008
Baseball is arguably America’s most popular game. It is a bat and ball game played by to competing teams of nine players each. The aim of the game is to score points through runs. To do this a ball is thrown and is hit with a bat and the hitter has to run and touch four markers or bases arranged at the corners of the diamond spot. The players on the offensive teams would take turn throwing the ball and trying to score runs while the defensive team tries to stop them by getting the hitters out using different ways. The teams switch between offence and defense as soon as the defensive teams get three out on the hitter. Each offensive play for a team is considered an inning, nine innings makes up a game. At the end of nine innings the team with the most number of runs wins the game.
In North America the professional league teams are divided into the National League and the American League. Each of these is further divided into three, the east, west and Central divisions. Towards the end of a league year four teams per division would play the play offs of that division. The winner of the play offs becomes champions of the Major League Baseball and qualifies for the World Series. Apart from the US baseball is enjoyed and passionately played and followed in other parts of the world. In regions such as East Asia, the Caribbean, South America, North America and Central America and even in South Africa the game is played at amateur, youth and professional levels
January 30th, 2008
The Detroit Tigers are talking with Curtis Granderson about a long-term contract extension. Curtis Granderson is not set to became a free agent until the end of the 2011 season, however. Last year Granderson made $410,000 and was thinking that maybe the team could sign him a likeminded contract for the 2008 season. The club now has more of a reason to sign Curtis to a long-term contract over the next few months after he was almost selected for his first All-Star game. The Detroit Tigers would prefer the contract to stretch a minimum of one season. At this point contract length or salary have not been discussed.
January 28th, 2008
At this time he Houston Astros have not determined whether they will take action with Miguel Tejada or not after he was targeted for lying in front of a congressional committee. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said during its hearing on steroids Tuesday that it had called for and investigation by the Justice Department after Tejada lied to the committee in 2005 about his steroid use. George Mitchell’s report issued last month included Adam Piatt saying that he talked about steroids with Tejada and that was provided with steroids and human growth hormone in 2003.
January 17th, 2008
The Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard and the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Jackson were named the Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week on Dec,3 2008 for games played Monday, Nov. 26 through Sunday, Dec. 2. Howard led the Magic to a 3-1 week, Jackson led the Warriors to a 4-0 week averaging 23.0 points.
January 5th, 2008
Mariano Rivera is one of those people who is not indifferent to baseball. He tries to stay away from everything connected with the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the game. Therefore he was not that much interested in the last week’s report from the former Senator George J. Mitchell. To prevent such things Rivera prefers to counsel teammates and speak up in meetings, but he prepares on his own and keeps things simple.
December 18th, 2007
Avid baseball fans know who Ritch Price is. He is a Kansas baseball coach, who has recently been named an assistant coach on the national team last week. Therefore, Price is going to spend summer with the USA National baseball team. At this, he will join Jerry Meyers, Old Dominion baseball coach, and Nino Giarratanao, University of San Francisco baseball coach, as assistants to national head coach Rob Walton.
December 13th, 2007
Controversy surfaced yesterday regarding Guillen even before the Kansas City Royals were able to confirm that the player had been added to the roster. It was reported that union officials were negotiating with MLB officials on terms of a suspension for Jose Guillen that resulted from his alleged purchase of human growth hormone and steroids from May 2002 through June 2005. The report caught the Kansas City Royals off-guard and drew a quick denial from the league’s executive vice president for labor relations Rob Manfred.
December 7th, 2007
Commissioner Bud Selig commended the Hall Of Fame voters for selecting Kuhn throwing his support behind Marvin Miller, who was left out by the Veterans Committee for the 2nd time this year. Selig said he was surprised that Miller didn’t receive the required support given his important impact on baseball. However, Miller himself was not surprised. It was enough for him to look at the panel to understand that his chances of induction were slim.
December 5th, 2007
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