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Clemens Lawsuit Looming? (video)
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Clemens Lawsuit Looming?

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Oriole Post - Baltimore Orioles Analysis & News; The World of Baseball and Beyond:  Who Does Roger Clemens Really Think He's Fooling? Will Issue His Mea Culpa on 60 Minutes

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Who Does Roger Clemens Really Think He's Fooling? Will Issue His Mea Culpa on 60 Minutes
Oriole Post - Baltimore Orioles Analysis & News; The World of Baseball and Beyond — As I have seen, Roger Clemens is the only player so from the Mitchell Report to flat-out deny his usage to the point where he's taking action. Now the story is getting even more bizzare. In a interview done with Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes that will appear this Sunday, oger Clemens said former trainer Brian McNamee injected him with the painkiller lidocaine and the vitamin B-12. Really? This excuse was used by former Oriole Miguel Tejada. Honestly, who did you believe? Do you think a personal trainer who's facing jail time does not know what he gave his client? Good lord. From ...

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sportsofboston.com 1/7/2008 — Shortly before a “60 Minutes” piece aired about Roger Clemens’ alleged steroid use, Clemens filed a defamation lawsuit against accuser and former trainer Brian McNamee. Sports of Boston will have more from this story as it develops. From the Associated Press: Roger Clemens filed a defamation suit against former personal trainer Brian McNamee in Texas state court Sunday ...
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Clemens Strikes first- Sues McNamee
yankstalk.com 1/8/2008 — Roger Clemens filed his own defamation lawsuit against his former trainer for making “false and defamatory” claims in Senator George Mitchell’s report on performance-enhancing-drug use in Major League Baseball. “All of McNamee’s accusations are false and defamatory per se because they are not true, and they injured Clemens’ reputation and exposed him to ...
Clemens Is Doing Everything He's Supposed To, So Why Don't I Believe Him? — The Smittblog
This Clemens thing is getting awfully dicey, what with the lawsuit and possible second lawsuit and Congressional hearings and now the 17 minutes of otherwordly conversation between Clemens and McNamee. What the hell was the deal with that phone call. That was one of the weirdest things I've ever heard. It sounded like a teenage break up call with all the dead air and the "I don't knows" and ...
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Houston Chronicle: Clemens files defamation suit against his ex-trainer — BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
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In light of the whole spectacle yesterday with 60 minutes and Roger Clemens, now the story has taken on a completely new dimension. Well, now it looks like that Roger Clemens beat Brian McNamee to court, filing a defamation suit against his former trainer who claimed to have injected him with performance-enhancing drugs in the Mitchell Report. : From the AP: Clemens filed the suit Sunday ...
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Clemens files lawsuit — ESPN.com - MLB
Roger Clemens beat Brian McNamee to court, filing a defamation suit against the former trainer who claimed to have injected him with performance-enhancing drugs.
Report: Clemens sues McNamee — Major League Baseball News
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Trainer's lawyer: Baloney — Newsday.com - Yankees
Roger Clemens may have done himself one bit of good in his "60 Minutes" interview last night. A lawyer for Brian McNamee, Clemens' accuser, says it is less likely that McNamee will bring a lawsuit against Clemens for defamation.