THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2008
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Former New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens departs the offices of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. He gave several hours of closed-door testimony to committee lawyers about alleged use of illegal steroids and other performance enhancing drugs in professional baseball
Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee go to Congress, discuss steroids use scandal in teams across the nation
Baseball hits Capitol Hill
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WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens spent Thursday going door-to-door on Capitol Hill, lobbying congressmen investigating whether he used drugs. His accuser, Brian McNamee, gave a seven-hour deposition and his lawyers presented photographs of evidence they said will prove the star pitcher used performance-enhancing drugs.
McNamee headed straight for the exit, not speaking a word to reporters, when he emerged from his interview with lawyers from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. His attorneys wouldn't discuss the deposition, but they did talk at length about two color photographs they showed the committee for the first time.
"Roger Clemens has put himself in a position where his legacy as the greatest pitcher in baseball will depend less on his ERA and more on his DNA," said one of McNamee's
lawyers, Earl Ward.
The seven-time Cy Young Award winner's denials of McNamee's allegations in the Mitchell Report about drug use drew Congress' attention. The committee has scheduled a public hearing for Wednesday, when Clemens, McNamee and other witnesses, including New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitt, are to testify.
McNamee's attorneys said their client turned over physical evidence to a federal prosecutor for the Northern District of California last month, shortly after Clemens held a Jan. 7 nationally televised news conference at which he played a taped conversation between the two men with conflicting accounts at the center of the issue.
"At that point," Ward said,
"(McNamee) decided there was no holds barred."
One photo shows a crushed beer can — which Richard Emery, another of McNamee's attorneys, said was taken out of a trash can in Clemens'
— that contained needles used to inject Clemens. That picture also shows what Emery said was gauze used to wipe blood off Clemens after a shot.
New York apartment in late 2001
The other picture shows vials of what Emery said were testosterone, and needles — items the attorney said Clemens gave to McNamee for safekeeping at the end of the 2002 baseball season.
McNamee's attorneys did not know when the items would be tested — or when the results might be known.
"We look forward to the results of these tests." Emery said, "and we look forward to just definitively finishing this whole controversy and ending this circus"
About an hour later, and a short walk away, Clemens held a news conference at which one of his attorneys, Rusty Hardin, repeatedly attacked McNamee, calling him a "troubled, not-well man."
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Xavier wins with buzzer-beater Musketeers defeat Saint Louis after sloppy second half
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Josh Duncan led a balanced attack with 15 points for Xavier (19-4, 7-1 Atlantic 10), which squandered all of a 16-point cushion against the persistent Billikens. Drew Lavender added 13 points and three others scored in double figures for Xavier, which has won five in a row and 11 of 12.
ST. LOUIS — Derrick Brown made a tip-in with 0.1 seconds to go, enabling No. 13 Xavier to barely avoid a second-half meltdown in a 70-68 victory over Saint Louis on Thursday night.
Kevin Lisch had three 3-pointers and a three-point play in the final minute, and his driving layup and free throw with 11.6 seconds to go tied it at 68. Lisch was a career-best 6-for-9 from 3-point range and scored 25 points for Saint Louis, which also got 11 points from Luke Meyer and 10 from Tommy Liddell III.
Brown, who finished with 12 points and nine rebounds, timed
Anderson, who played his first two seasons at Manhattan, topped 1,000 career points on his first basket.
Saint Louis led only once after Barry Eberhardt's 3 for a 13-12 lead with 12:18 to go in the first half. Eberhardt was 2-for-2 from 3-point range and is 7-for-13 on the year after hitting another from long range during Saint Louis' comeback.
Duncan and C.J. Anderson each had two baskets in a 10-0 run that put the Musketeers in control at 29-15 with just over four minutes to go. Duncan hit his first four shots and had 13 points in the half, while Lavender hit his first three shots and had eight points.
in a missed shot by a driving Drew Lavender just ahead of the buzer.
Xavier held Saint to 27-percent shooting while taking a 35-22 lead at the break. It's the Billikens' worst showing for a half outside of a horrish 14.6-percent showing, the NCAAs
worst in the Washington clock era, in a 49-20 loss at George Washington ten. 10.
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Phil Mickelson chips the ball onto the first green of the Poppy Hills Golf Course during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif. on Thursday.
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Kent Jones birdied the two most famous par 3s at Pebble Beach and kept bogeys off his card for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead, an encouraging start for someone who has played 270 tournaments over the last decade on the PGA Tour without finishing in the top five.
Nationwide Tour grad Roland Thatcher was a shot back along with Q-school grad Brad Adamonis and John Mallinger, third at Pebble Beach last year as a rookie.
The star gazing took place at Poppy Hills, and while it didn't always produce great golf to match the spectacular sunshine on the Monterey Peninsula, it was entertaining.
Surprising start at Pebble Beach
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PEBLE BEACH, Calif. — The celebrity watch at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am took place everywhere but the top of the leaderboard Thursday.
Defending champion Phil Mickelson was on the verge of shooting himself out of the tournament until a birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie burst enabled him to recover with a 71 and stay in the game. Greg Norman, playing on the PGA Tour for the first time in 18 months, was holding steady until a four-putt on the 13th hole for a double bogey. He finished with a 76.
His fiancee, tennis great Chris Evert, flew in from Florida and didn't make it out to the golf course until Norman was on the 16th. Evert has no plans to take up golf, saying it was too time-consuming with three boys — make that four with the Shark in her life — and a tennis academy to run.
"Tennis only takes one hour," she said, laughing.
These rounds take close to six hours with two pros and two amateurs in every group, and it was a slow, steady grind.
been around long enough to realize that one round is too early
It was ideal for Jones, a 41-year-old from New Mexico who has yet to finish in the top 100 on the money list. Even so, Jones has
Defending champion Phil Mickelson was on the verge of shooting himself out of the tournament until a birdie-eagle-birdie burst enabled him to recover with a 71 and stay in the game.
to get excited,
especially in a
format that uses
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ment where
the leaderboard
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until Sunday.