Mitchell Report

NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Wallace didn't interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them. His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were ‘‘Mike Wallace is here to see you. " Wallace, whose pitiless, prosecutorial style transformed television journalism and made ‘‘60 Minutes" compulsively watchable, died Saturday night at...

WASHINGTON - A federal court jury saw snippets of Roger Clemens denying steroid use at a now-famous 2008 congressional hearing, then listened Monday as Clemens's lawyer tried in fits and starts to declare that proceeding to be "nothing more than a show trial" that shouldn't have taken place. The perjury retrial of the seven-time Cy Young Award winning pitcher entered its third week, which unfolded as yet another session bogged down by constant objections. The day ended, however, with a cliffhanger that could prove crucial to the outcome.

NEW YORK - When Jose Canseco tried to get into the Mitchell Report news conference yesterday, the man mentioned most often in those 409 pages wasn't welcome. Major League Baseball officials refused to let him in, saying it was a "media only" event. The former Oakland Athletics slugger didn't force the issue and was unimpressed with what he heard of the report. "It's a slap on the hand," he told Fox Business Network. "The report proved nothing. It just proved what we already knew.

A federal court jury saw snippets of Roger Clemens denying steroid use at a now-famous 2008 congressional hearing, then listened Monday as Clemens' lawyer tried in fits and starts to declare that proceeding to be "nothing more than a show trial" that shouldn't have taken place. The perjury retrial of the seven-time Cy Young Award winning pitcher entered its third week, which unfolded as yet another session bogged down by constant objections. The day ended, however, with a cliffhanger that could prove crucial to the outcome.

WASHINGTON - Congress wants to be prepared when Roger Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, head to Capitol Hill. The House hearing involving Clemens, McNamee, and Yankees lefthander Andy Pettitte was postponed yesterday from next Wednesday until Feb. 13, giving lawmakers time to gather evidence, take depositions from witnesses, and coordinate their investigation with the Justice Department. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was to begin meeting with lawyers for the witnesses today.

Mariano Rivera is backing Andy Pettitte . After completing his $45 million, three-year contract with the New York Yankees yesterday, Rivera said he was impressed with Pettitte for admitting that he used human growth hormone after his name was included in the Mitchell Report. "The thing that I admire is that he came out and said he did it," Rivera said on a conference call. Rivera was surprised to hear Pettitte was included last week in the report with Roger Clemens and several other players on the Yankees teams that won four World Series titles...

NEW YORK - Convicted steroid distributor Kirk Radomski handed over shipping receipts to federal investigators for a package of human growth hormone that he claims he sent to Roger Clemens's home in Texas in 2002 or 2003, New York's Daily News reported last night on its website. Clemens, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner, is under investigation for perjury after telling Congress he never used steroids or human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens's personal trainer, told Congress the pitcher used performance-enhancing drugs and that he provided them to Clemens.

Roger Clemens acknowledged he took injections from longtime trainer Brian McNamee, but they differ about what Clemens was injected with. CBS released an excerpt of Clemens's "60 Minutes" interview with Mike Wallace, which airs Sunday, to the Associated Press yesterday in which the seven-time Cy Young winner reiterated he never took performance-enhancing drugs. In the Mitchell Report released Dec. 13, McNamee said he injected Clemens with steroids in 1998 while they were with the Toronto Blue Jays, and human growth hormone in 2000 and 2001 while they were with the...

WASHINGTON - Roger Clemens should know by the end of the week if Congress will ask the Justice Department to investigate whether the star pitcher or his accuser made false statements under oath. Clemens's lawyer says they knew long ago that is where things probably were headed. The majority and minority sides of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee met yesterday to discuss how to proceed on the Clemens matter. "I can't say anything about discussions today," Phil Schiliro, chief of staff for committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)

NEW YORK - Jose Canseco, Lenny Dykstra, and Rafael Palmeiro were among nine players accused of doping by former major league pitcher Jason Grimsley in a federal agent's affidavit unsealed yesterday. Roger Clemens wasn't one of them, despite a published report last year that singled him out. He was, however, prominently mentioned in last week's Mitchell Report on doping, but has denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs. Grimsley accused Canseco, Dykstra, Glenallen Hill, and Geronimo Berroa of taking steroids.

NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Wallace didn't interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them. His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were ‘‘Mike Wallace is here to see you. " Wallace, whose pitiless, prosecutorial style transformed television journalism and made ‘‘60 Minutes" compulsively watchable, died Saturday night at...

WASHINGTON - In opening statements yesterday, prosecution and defense lawyers in the Roger Clemens perjury trial painted contrasting images of the Red Sox icon, making their case to a jury largely unfamiliar with the former pitcher's on-field accomplishments and alleged off-field crimes. The government showed photos of Clemens in Yankee pinstripes pumping his fist with biceps bulging and of used syringes and cotton balls saved by the pitcher's longtime trainer, Brian McNamee. Assistant US Attorney Steven Durham said the syringes and cotton balls tested positive for...

Roger Clemens goes on trial at a federal courthouse in Washington today. He could wind up in prison. It’s a sad situation for the Rocket. Against the advice of just about everyone, stubborn Clemens insisted on going before Congress (in February 2008) to defend his name after he showed up 82 times in the Mitchell Report, which investigated the use of steroids in baseball. Clemens’s appearance on Capitol Hill was preposterous. He told one whopper after another. In the face of considerable evidence, he told his delusional version of the truth, and now the feds...

WASHINGTON — The star witness in a possible perjury case against Roger Clemens testified before a federal grand jury yesterday, a sign the panel could be nearing a decision on whether to indict the seven-time Cy Young Award winner for allegedly lying to Congress. Brian McNamee, Clemens’s former personal trainer, spent more than 2 1/2 hours inside the courthouse where the grand jury meets. Accompanied by two lawyers, McNamee gave a quick wave to reporters as he left the meeting rooms but did not speak.

Unable to punish Alex Rodriguez for flunking a drug test that was supposed to be anonymous, Bud Selig could only chastise him. "What Alex did was wrong and he will have to live with the damage he has done to his name and reputation," the commissioner said yesterday, three days after the Yankees star admitted using banned substances from 2001-03 while playing for the Rangers. "While Alex deserves credit for publicly confronting the issue, there is no valid excuse for using such substances, and those who use them have shamed the game," Selig added.

NEW YORK - Convicted steroid distributor Kirk Radomski handed over shipping receipts to federal investigators for a package of human growth hormone that he claims he sent to Roger Clemens's home in Texas in 2002 or 2003, New York's Daily News reported last night on its website. Clemens, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner, is under investigation for perjury after telling Congress he never used steroids or human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, Clemens's personal trainer, told Congress the pitcher used performance-enhancing drugs and that he provided them to Clemens.

NEW YORK - A lawyer for Brian McNamee called on Congress to demand and make public the recording of a December interview between his client and two private investigators hired by Roger Clemens's attorneys. The lawsuit filed Sunday by Clemens against his former trainer contains what appears to be an excerpt of the interview, which took place Dec. 12. That was one day before the release of the Mitchell Report, in which McNamee accused Clemens of using steroids and human growth hormone.

A federal court jury saw snippets of Roger Clemens denying steroid use at a now-famous 2008 congressional hearing, then listened Monday as Clemens' lawyer tried in fits and starts to declare that proceeding to be "nothing more than a show trial" that shouldn't have taken place. The perjury retrial of the seven-time Cy Young Award winning pitcher entered its third week, which unfolded as yet another session bogged down by constant objections. The day ended, however, with a cliffhanger that could prove crucial to the outcome.

NEW YORK - Roger Clemens amended his defamation suit against Brian McNamee yesterday, adding a new claim of "intentional infliction of emotional distress. " Clemens's attorneys also filed a 39-page response to the motion to dismiss that McNamee's lawyers made March 4. Clemens claims McNamee, his former personal trainer, was "malicious and grossly negligent" when McNamee told baseball investigator George Mitchell last year Clemens had used steroids and human growth hormone.

NEW YORK - Roger Clemens's lawyer says he will talk with his client about whether to press ahead with a defamation suit following a wave of unpleasant publicity in the wake of reports linking the pitcher to numerous women. "He's getting pummeled," attorney Rusty Hardin said yesterday. The Daily News reported Monday that Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and Clemens was with the Red Sox. Hardin said then "at no time did Roger engage in any kind of inappropriate or improper...