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McNamee discusses Clemens’ injections

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Roger Clemens’ former trainer Brian McNamee has reportedly talked to website SportsImproper.com about injecting the seven-time Cy Young Award winner with performance-enhancing drugs.

McNamee told the website about injecting Clemens in the summer of 2001 at the pitcher’s high-rise Manhattan apartment. Clemens was pitching then for the defending World Series champion, the Yankees.

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‘That day, he laid out the drugs, dropped his trousers and I did as he asked, that is, inject him with steroids,’ McNamee said. ‘Afterwards, he told me to get rid of the needle. I went into the kitchen and found an empty Miller Lite can in a wastebasket under the sink. I put the used needle into the can because it was actually hazardous material at that point and I didn’t want anyone to get hurt by sticking themselves. He told me to throw it away but I kept it instead.’

That decision could have dire consequences for Clemens. The New York Times reported Tuesday that materials turned over by McNamee, including syringes, vials and gauze pads, have been found to contain performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens’ DNA is also reportedly on the material, although an official with the Anti-Doping Research facility headed by Don Catlin in Los Angeles declined to comment to the Times on Tuesday about the results involving the McNamee materials.

A federal grand jury is weighing whether to indict Clemens for lying to Congress when he testified before a committee last year that he’s never used steroids.

-- Lance Pugmire

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