CBC, Clemens, Gagne named in baseball drug report:
A star-studded roster of players — including Canadian reliever Eric Gagné and former Blue Jays pitcher Roger Clemens — were linked to steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in the long-awaited Mitchell report released Thursday.
All-time home-run king Barry Bonds, already under indictment on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about steroids, also showed up, as did Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada and Tigers outfielder Gary Sheffield, among many others.
The report culminated a 20-month investigation by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, hired by baseball commissioner Bud Selig to examine the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport.
Updated: Roger Clemens is apparently suing his trainer for defamation [CBC, Roger Clemens sues ex-trainer for defamation: report]:
It will be interesting to see how the others who were named react."All of McNamee's accusations are false and defamatory per se," the lawsuit said, according to the Chronicle. "They injured [Roger] Clemens's reputation and exposed him to public hatred, contempt, ridicule and financial injury. McNamee made the allegations with actual malice, knowing they were false."
It makes being a baseball fan exceedingly difficult.
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