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...December the Mitchell Report on steroid abuse in the major leagues fingered the top players of the past two decades--slugger Barry Bonds and pitcher Roger Clemens--as having taken illegal substances. Bonds has dwelled mostly in sullen silence through the years of his charges. But Clemens, whose inclusion in the report was a jolt to fans, has taken the offensive, proclaiming his innocence against allegations by his former personal trainer Brian McNamee that he had injected the star multiple times with a banned steroid...
...blog and with Wallace, Clemens was righteous and restrained. It was a fine performance--for a control pitcher like Greg Maddux. But Clemens' forte was always power: throwing a 95-m.p.h. fastball that could depilate a batter's eyebrows. That was the Clemens on display at his Jan. 7 press conference. Staring down reporters with the same intensity he lasered at Mike Piazza in 2000 (just before he beaned him), Clemens played the tape of a recent 17-min. phone call he'd had with McNamee. For revelations, this was no Watergate tape; neither side admitted to lying...
...light of his extremely productive later seasons as a home run hitter. But not until now have we had overwhelming proof that steroid use is endemic to the sport and its stars. In fact, some players named in the report have come clean after the fact, like Yankees star pitcher Andy Pettitte. Others, however, continue to deny use. But quibbling about what types of drugs were used and when and by whom, is a distraction from the larger truth: professional baseball long ago ceased to be a contest of athleticism. A large part of the appeal of following sports, professional...
...biggest name of all had to be Roger Clemens, considered by many the greatest pitcher of all time. Of course it shouldn't really be all that surprising that the Rocket, who issued a vehement denial Thursday evening, made Mitchell's roll call. After all, in 2006, the Los Angeles Times had reported that Clemens and Andy Pettitte, another star of the Mitchell report, were among the players former pitcher Jason Grimsley (yup, he's in there too) accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. But for whatever reason, after his denials, most people largely gave Clemens a pass. The "suspected...
...December of 2007 has also been a banner month for a once moribund campaign. While still trailing former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney in the Granite State, McCain has picked up two coveted endorsements: from the New Hampshire Union-Leader, the state's largest newspaper, and from Curt Schilling, beloved pitcher for the World Series Champion Boston Red Sox. (Schilling's is arguably more important.) But it's the town hall meetings that give McCain and his staff the most hope. "Drawing 350 people on a Saturday night in December," says one staffer, "that's a good sign." Locals say Mitt...