Roger Clemens by Mike Ehrmann/WireImage.com
Roger Clemens' first interview since being named in George Mitchell’s report on steroid use in baseball will air Sunday on 60 Minutes (Jan. 6, 7 pm/ET, CBS). It will come as little surprise that the pitching superstar says he has “never” taken performance-enhancing drugs. He tells 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace that his former personal trainer Brian McNamee only injected him with “lidocaine and B-12. It’s for my joints, and B-12 I still take today.” (Lidocaine is a painkiller commonly used as a local anesthetic.)
McNamee told former senator Mitchell that he injected Clemens with steroids and HGH (human growth hormone). Clemens, who will not be re-signed to the New York Yankees for the ’08 season, tells Wallace that those claims are “ridiculous.” Firing back, McNamee’s lawyer, Earl Ward, tells the New York Times, “The only injections he ever gave Clemens were for steroids and human growth hormone.”
ESPN2 will air a SportsCenter Special on Monday (Jan. 7, 5 pm/ET) with live coverage of Clemens’ press conference in Houston, where he will continue to address the allegations. Congress’ House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has asked Clemens and McNamee to testify at a hearing on Jan. 16.
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