News - Roger Clemens
Brandi Chastain and former MLB all-star pitcher John Smoltz - teammates and leaders after day one of the 11th annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational (MJCI) hosted by ARIA Resort & Casino - shot even par-72 to earn a five-stroke victory at Shadow Creek
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The conviction of Barry Bonds last week, the 'retirement' of Manny Ramirez, and the ongoing investigations of Roger Clemens and Lance Armstrong are just the tip of the sports-drugs iceberg," Robert Weiner, former spokesman for the White House National Drug Policy Office, said today. Weiner, also a former spokesman for the World Anti-Doping Agency at the Olympics, gave the Ken Feinberg Distinguished History Lecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this week on "Sports and Drugs--a Sordid History." At the lecture and in an oped drawn from the speech that ran today in the Springfield (MA) Republican, Weiner said: "Bonds was not alone in obstructing evidence--he followed the party line.
The defamation suit Roger Clemens filed against former trainer Brian McNamee has been dismissed by a federal judge in Texas. The suit, filed Jan.6, 2008, was dismissed with prejudice by U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison in Houston. The Aug.
