Steroids Blog

Roger Clemens had decided to speak out in public to once again deny the issue on steroid use. He claimed that his former trainer Brian McNamee never administered HGH or steroids on him. Clemens also told the media that he never considered using steroids since their family has a history of heart problems.

In the midst of the steroid controversy, Clemens filed a defamation case against former trainer Brian McNamee who told baseball investigator George Mitchell he had injected Clemens with steroids.

From RGJ.com:

Roger Clemens broke his silence Tuesday, again denying that former personal trainer Brian McNamee injected him with performance-enhancing drugs in his first public comments in more than a year.

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner was interviewed by phone on ESPN Radio’s “Mike & Mike in the Morning.” He said he chose to speak out Tuesday because it was the official release date of a book about his alleged drug use.

“He’s never injected me with HGH or steroids,” Clemens said of McNamee, who told baseball investigator George Mitchell he had injected Clemens with drugs.

“American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime,” by four New York Daily News reporters, recaps previous reports in the newspaper.

Clemens said he had given a DNA sample to federal investigators but that syringes provided by McNamee would not link him to performance-enhancing drug use.

Clemens is under investigation by a federal grand jury in Washington that is trying to determine whether he lied when he told a congressional committee last year that he had not used illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner, Roger Clemens said that he chose to comment publicly on Tuesday because it is the release date of a book that talks about his alleged steroids history.