Clemens Sues McNamee - The Law and the Prognosis; McNamee Responds to CNNSI
East Coast Bias —
... Now (literally published four mintes ago), McNamee has spoken to Jon Heyman of CNNSI. McNamee's account reeks of honesty. Heyman reports that he clearly admires Clemens. McNamee sticks to his story, and stated that B-12 and painkillers would be injected in the arm, not the butt. He implied that he didn't inject those either. ...
McNamee Stands by Claim That Roger Clemens Used Steroids
FanHouse —
Filed under: New York, Yankees, AL East, MLB Gossip, PEDsJust as soon as I had pondered whether or not Brian McNamee was set up to implicate Roger Clemens, I see the story that McNamee stands by his claim. McNamee apparently sat down for an interview with SI's Jon Heyman while the pair watched Clemens on 60 Minutes Sunday night. Sure enough, McNamee repeated his claim that Clemens took steroids: And Roger was in no way an abuser of steroids. He never took them through our tough winter ...
Clemens' And McNamee's Curious Relationship
FanHouse —
... and Clemens. As the above video of the taped conversation would lead you to believe -- and as John Heyman's exclusive interview with McNamee at SI today leads you to believe today as well -- the two men held each other's families in high regard. They were close. McNamee seemed to view Clemens as sort sort of father figure and role model. ...
Roger Clemens' Press Conference
Sports Law Blog —
... , which includes a number of great pieces, including an exclusive interview by Jon Heyman with Brian McNamee, who tells Jon that he is standing by his story.
The truth is the truth. It is what it is.
Drunk Jays Fans —
... Sports Illustrated's Jon Heyman came quickly with the first interview of McNamee since the Mitchell Report, which is also worth a read. In it, without the presence of the man he betrayed looming over his shoulder, McNamee appears far more assured of himself-- almost as assured as Clemens sounded when he ended today's press conference with fury over how he "doesn't give a rat's ass" about the Hall of Fame. ...
Mitchell: Let's Hug It Out B*tch Mac
Bronx Liaison —
... Sports Illustrated's best newsbreaker, Jon Heyman, offers the exclusive with Brian McNamee. In it, McNamee speaks of his sorrow for burying his client and idol, Roger Clemens. He also explains Senator Mitchell embraced the troubled trainer after confirming testimony detailing the Rocket's use of performance-enhancing-drugs. Weird. ...
More Clemens chatter
Extra Bases —
... Sports Illustrated's John Heyman has an exclusive interview with the Rockets former trainer McNamee, who stands by his story but noted that Clemens was not a steroid abuser: ...
S.I. Heyman: Exclusive: McNamee stands by story
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
S.I. Heyman: Exclusive: McNamee stands by story Det. Hotch nabs this Heyman/McNamee interview… When Clemens claims to have no knowledge that Andy Pettitte—Clemens’ close friend and training partner, and another former client of McNamee—had twice taken HGH, thus corroborating McNamee’s testimony in the Mitchell Report, the trainer interjects, “I believe that.” As the 60 Minutes interview draws to a close, Clemens, who will repeat his denials in a news conference the next day, discusses the possibility of taking a lie detector test. “I think he’s the one guy who could probably ...
Jon Heyman visits Brian McNamee, watches TV
Sports stories from Newsday —
Here is Jon Heyman's piece via SI.com about watching "60 Minutes" with Brian McNamee Sunday night.
Jon usually is a thorough, aggressive reporter, but somehow he neglected to ask McNamee what he thought of Lara Logan's sitdown with Pervez Musharraf.
The article was e-mailed to me Monday night by SI p.r. man Bob Broderick, with whom I used to play pickup basketball when he was a ball boy and later p.r. intern at Giants training camp.
He was much, much better than me. Maybe I've mentioned this before. I don't know.
Lara Logan is young enough ...
Deconstructing Roger Clemens, part II
Sports Scope —
... at Newsday . McNamee's lawyer says, "This is war," and Daily News columnist Mike Lupica doesn't believe Clemens helped himself Monday. "McNamee said a lot of things over those 17 minutes. What he never said was that he had lied to former Sen. George Mitchell or to the government about injecting Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone," Lupica wrote. Newsday 's Shaun Powell wonders if we'll ever know the truth about Clemens. McNamee watched the 60 Minutes interview with a Sports Illustrated reporter. Yahoo's Tim Brown ...
PR and Pretending
ShysterBall —
... Of course there is all kinds of pretending going on here. The lawyers are pretending to be public relations men. The most dominant and aggressive player in decades is pretending to be a victim. The man who ratted out his biggest client is pretending to still be his friend. Congress is pretending to be protecting children, those in positions of power within the game during the rise of steroids in baseball are pretending that the Mitchell Report provides closure of some kind, and many in the media are pretending that they know more than they do. ...
Clemens, Those Dangerous Eyes, and the Most Overhyped Phone Call in Sports History
The Big Lead —
... ” camp, but after reading this interview SI had with the trainer, we’re slightly concerned about how he’ll do in court. We can see McNamee getting grilled on the stand: “You repeatedly denied any involvement with steroids for years, why change your tune now?” ...
Rice Cooked Again
Boston Dirt Dogs —
... Extra Bases: Roger Roundup from Across the Country SI.com: McNamee Stands By Story
"And Roger was in no way an abuser of steroids. He never took them through our tough winter workouts. And he never took them in spring training, when the days are longest. He took them in late July, August, and never for more than four to six weeks max ... it wasn't that frequent." -- Brian McNamee to SI.com
Clemens' Saga - Past, Present and Congressional Future
East Coast Bias —
... Jan. 7, 2008 - Jon Heyman of CNNSI scores an exclusive interview with Brian McNamee, in which McNamee sticks to his guns. Jan. 7, 2008 - Clemens' group holds press conference in which they play a tape of a Jan. 5 phone call ...
2 calls in May 2007: Red Sox don't get one they expected. Brian McNamee got the other.
XM MLB Chat —
... "McNamee received the first call from the feds way back in May (2007). "I was pretty compelled to tell the truth,'' is the way McNamee put it. "It made me sick,'' he says. 'I was hospitalized for the stress.'' ...
The Elephant in the Board Room
XM MLB Chat —
... 2. August 2007, SI.com Jon Heyman reports the month when George Mitchell first contacted Brian McNamee about Roger Clemens (1/7/08 SI.com): ...
Misinformation about the 2000 Yankees
XM MLB Chat —
... for use in 2000, was mentioned for 2001. Evidence against GlenAllen Hill is in the form of a check in March 2001 at which point he was not on the Yankees. I've looked up every name and searched for other references, and still it's only Clemens.
George Mitchell's own organization, the Red Sox, made Clemens an offer of $18 million to join them in the 2007 season, reported in 5/6/07 in the Boston Globe. Around that time, Clemens accepted the Yankee offer. 3 months later in August 2007, Mitchell had his first sit down with McNamee." ...
Sorry, it was Andy's shoulder, not 'offseason distractions'
XM MLB Chat —
... Clemens steroids saga,
may
be taking its toll on his stamina."Sorry, it was his shoulder, not the so-called 'off season' distractions.
P.S. George Mitchell's own organization, the Red Sox, made Clemens an offer of $18 million to join them in the 2007 season, reported in 5/6/07 in the Boston Globe. Around that time (May, 2007), Clemens accepted the Yankee offer. 3 months later in August 2007, Mitchell had his first sit down with ...
