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BACK IN 1997, when I was in my second year with the Cubs, I vividly recall watching batting practice when Mark McGwire stepped in the cage for the Cardinals. It was awesome. I saw how far the ball flew, and, like so many of us, I suspended disbelief. It was like watching a good horror movie, before we knew how wrong things could go. Over time, a cloud of doubt seeped into clubhouses. Suspicion about whether that teammate beating you out is playing fair. Records became mere placeholders. Every home run hit a little too far brought a hitter's integrity...

Kind of. Disgraced former Major League pitcher Roger Clemens is in talks with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Major League Baseball first reported the story, but they were quick to point out that the league is not in any way affiliated with MLB. It is unclear whether or not Clemens will try to use this to resurrect his career (he says it isn’t), but you never know with pro athletes.

A jury found baseball star Roger Clemens not guilty on six charges that he lied to Congress in 2008 about his use of performance enhancing drugs. Clemens was charged with lying to Congress about his use of performance enhancing drugs.

Eric Holder’s incompetent team of legal minds has botched things up again. Roger Clemens is in a fight for his life, and his enemies are fierce, partisan and patently unfair. His alleged crime—making false statements to Henry Waxman in a congressional hearing-- has cost the American taxpayer tens of millions of dollars, all because in 2008, during an election year, Henry Waxman needed a high profile hearing to showboat, to garner as much publicity as possible, to allow him to bang his gavel, to feel superior, to peacock around. Waxman could have decided to focus legitimate attention on the use...

Roger Clemens was accused of the same thing that Eric Holder did in Gunwalker; lying to Congress. For Mr. Holder to be prosecuting Clemens for his own crime could have been very embarrassing as more and more people became aware of it. I believe that Holder told his prosecutors to get the case thrown out of court. How else can you explain the stupidity of their mistake? There will be no retrial. Eric Holder can't afford it. Blunder jeopardizes Clemens case

WASHINGTON — The judge declared a mistrial Thursday in baseball star Roger Clemens’ perjury trial after prosecutors showed to jurors evidence that he had ruled would out of bounds in the case. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said Clemens could not be assured a fair trial after prosecutors showed jurors evidence against his orders in the second day of testimony. Walton scheduled a Sept. 2 hearing to determine whether to hold a new trial. He told jurors he was sorry to have wasted their time and spent so much taxpayer money, only to call off the case. "There are rules...

So Roger Clemens now finds himself facing significant jail time for lying to Congress about steroid use. Fine. If he did it -- lying and juicing up -- he needs to pay the appropriate penalty. But for Congress to be getting huffy about lies, of all things, is a bit rich. What happens when Congress -- institutionally and member by member -- lies to the people? It happens, of course, every day. Yes, steroid use is wrong -- it's a form of cheating, simple as that. And yes, perjury is beyond the pale. But The Rocket fizzled a long time...

Alex Rodriguez wasn't the only player in the Yankee clubhouse who suffered from "man boobs," an embarrassing side effect of steroid use. According to "American Icon," a book by the Daily News sports investigative team that will be released on May 12, Roger Clemens also sprouted breasts as a result of anabolic steroid use. The condition is called gynecomastia, and it occurs in men who use steroids because their bodies compensate for a surge of testosterone by increasing production of female hormones.

He told little white lies ... and he took little blue pills. Roger Clemens, whose claims he never took steroids are under federal investigation, has apparently discovered the benefits of another performance-enhancing drug sweeping the sports world - Viagra. Clemens stashed the clearly marked, diamond-shaped pills in a GNC vitamin bottle in his locker at Yankee Stadium, according to a source familiar with the clubhouse, perhaps keeping the drug undercover to avoid the inevitable wisecracks about all the girlfriends he needed to please.

Steroids in MLB Today The House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee holds a third hearing on the use of performance enhancing substances by major league baseball players. Witnesses include MLB player Roger Clemens."

Admit it, whatever happens between Roger Clemens and the United States government's House Oversight Committee Wednesday, almost every person reading this column assumes that Clemens was a user. If he is exonerated, then fine. We'll accept that, too. But the headline, "Ageing Hall of Fame Pitcher Didn't Do Steroids" will come as a bit of a surprise, because let's face it: aren't all those guys juiced these days? Clemens' team of lawyers would chastise us for looking at Clemens as guilty until proven innocent, and not the other way around. But the fact he even has a team of lawyers...

Roger Clemens, future Hall of Famer, welcome to family court. No, Roger isn't getting divorced--in fact, former teammate Jose Canseco wrote that Clemens was very devoted and faithful to his wife Debbie during his baseball career. What I mean is this--Clemens has been accused in the Mitchell Report of using steroids. Clemens hotly denies this but throws up his hands in exasperation, repeatedly asking, "How do you prove a negative?" Well, how do you? This is exactly the position that so many fathers are in when faced with false accusations of domestic violence or child sexual abuse in family court....

NEW YORK -- Roger Clemens might be willing to take a lie-detector test, was "shocked" close friend Andy Pettitte used human growth hormone and, in his first interview since the Mitchell report, said -- again -- that he probably will retire. Clemens told CBS's "60 Minutes" in the interview, which was to be broadcast Sunday night, that he would have spoken with baseball drug investigator George Mitchell had he been aware former trainer Brian McNamee accused him of using steroids and HGH. The seven-time Cy Young Award winner, the most prominent player implicated in last month's Mitchell report, steadfastly maintained...

NEW YORK -- Roger Clemens was booed off the mound Thursday after he allowed eight runs and nine hits in the second inning of the Yankees' game against the Chicago White Sox. Only three of the runs were earned. Second baseman Robinson Cano mishandled Jerry Owens' grounder near the bag with one out, and Clemens threw out Darin Erstad at the plate on Alex Cintron's dribbler, but the next four batters all got hits off Clemens before manager Joe Torre replaced him.

It is sad, really. Even during their current seven-year championship drought, even while they were losing four straight to the Red Sox in 2004 or flopping in the first round of the playoffs to the Tigers last year, the Yankees at least were interesting. They always were dangerous, always threatening to put it all together and return to the top of the baseball world. As they made one ridiculously expensive splash after another - signing Giambi, signing Pavano, signing Damon, trading for A-Rod or Abreu - you couldn’t help but wonder: Is this it? Is this the move that finally...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-- David Ortiz was putting the finishing touches on his three-piece suit when he was asked about Roger Clemens signing with the New York Yankees. "Who?" the Boston slugger asked, innocently. Roger Clemens. He signed with the Yankees on Sunday. "Oh, he did?" Ortiz said after Boston's 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins, his mischievous eyes hidden behind a pair of designer shades. "I hadn't heard." Ortiz's ignorance may have been embellished, but while the rest of the baseball world marveled at the 44-year-old Rocket's return to New York, the Yankees' biggest rivals greeted the news with a shrug...

NEW YORK -- Roger Clemens returned to the New York Yankees, making a dramatic announcement to fans from the owner's box during Sunday's game against the Seattle Mariners. Clemens Clemens' contract will be a pro-rated salary of $28 million dollars, according to ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney. His pro-rated salary last season was $22 million. Clemens will make about $4.5 million per month for June, July, August and September. At the end of the seventh-inning stretch, Yankees public address announcer Bob Sheppard told fans to turn their attention to the box, where Clemens was standing with a microphone. As the...

Roger Clemens, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter are among the headliners on the 30-man U.S. team roster announced on Tuesday for next month's inaugural World Baseball Classic. ADVERTISEMENT The 16-nation tournament will feature the world's best players competing for their home countries staged over three weeks. Clemens, 43, winner of a record seven Cy Young Awards for major league pitching excellence, will be joined by fellow-starters Dontrelle Willis, Jake Peavy and C.C. Sabathia on a pitching staff that will be stacked with 10 relievers. "I'm excited to be a part of it," Clemens, a free agent after going 13-8 with...

 Game Info: 8:05 pm EDT Thu Oct 21, 2004 TV: FOX  Starting Pitchers  Regular Season Stats  R. ClemensHou vs.  J. SuppanStL 18-4 Record 16-9 2.98 ERA 4.16 218 K 110 79 BB 65 15 HR 25 SERIES: NL championship series; tied, 3-3. This is why Houston manager Phil Garner held Rogers Clemens back. And this is why the Astros lured The Rocket out of retirement last winter. For the third time in four seasons, Clemens will be on the mound for a decisive Game 7. Only this time, he'll be doing it for his hometown team, hoping to pitch them...

There are two names in the news that, to our knowledge, have never before been linked: Roger Clemens and Rush Limbaugh.  Roger ClemensRoger Clemens is the baseball pitcher, future Hall of Famer, six time winner of the game’s highest accolade for his craft, the Cy Young Award. Before the 2003 season, he announced that it would be his last. That he sought only one more goal—to achieve 300 career victories. This he did in June. Everything after that was a valedictory.In New York, each Clemens appearance was a love-fest. Beyond the ceremonies and the special Hum-Vee, he was accorded a...