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Clemens and Pettitte testify, prepare for steroid hearing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Not one of Roger Clemens' flat-out denials about using steroids or human growth hormone was delivered
while he spoke under oath.
Now he gets that chance.
The seventime Cy Young Award winner is scheduled to give a deposition to lawyers from a congressional committee behind closed doors Tuesday.
McNamee is to appear Thursday.
"Roger is not going to take the Fifth Amendment. He is going to answer the committee's questions truthfully under oath."
INCORRECT IS to appear THRICE
One of his lawyers, Earl Ward,
said no decision had been made on
whether he would submit to a deposition or transcribed interview.
one day after his former New York Yankees teammate and workout partner Andy Pettitt delivered sworn testimony for about two and a half hours.
It is a crime to lie to Congress,
Both pitchers' private interviews with staff members from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are part of preparation for a Feb. 13 hearing.
That public session is expected to focus on allegations made in the Mitchell Report by trainer Brian McNamee that he injected Clemens more than a dozen times with performance enhancers.
RUSTY HARDIN Clemens' Lawyer
The 45-year-old Clemens ranks eighth in major league history
with 354 career wins. He put off retirement yet again in 2007, returning to the Yankees in June and going 6-6 with a 4.18 ERA.
New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte stands in an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, after he was deposed before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
he to congress,
whether sworn to tell the truth
or not, so the
distinction between the two
has more to do with the format of the questioning and the confidentiality of the transcript.
Pettit, who chose to be deposed, did emptys
not take questions from reporters afterward as he walked from committee offices to an elevator in the Rayburn House Office Building. Wearing a pintstripe gray suit and bright striped tie, Pettitte was accompanied by his wife and three lawyers.
"At the com-
"Roger is not going to take the Fifth Amendment," one of Clemens' lawyers, Rusty Hardin, said in a statement e-mailed by spokesman Joe Householder. "He is going to answer the committee's questions truthfully under oath."
declined to comment.
At the committee's request, Andy Pettitte voluntarily met with representatives of the committee this morning, and fully answered all of the inquiries
McNamee told former Senate majority leader George Mitchell he injected Pettitte with HGH.
retrite lent credence to Mitchell's findings by acknowledging two days after the report was released in December that he did try HGH for two days in 2002 to help deal with an elbow injury.
The committee announced Monday it will hold yet another hearing Feb. 12, entitled, "Myths and Facts about Human Growth Hormone, B-12, and Other Substances"
The 45-year-old Clemens ranks eighth in major league history with 354 career wins.
Staff members for the committee
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"We believe that the statements provided to us were truthful."
of these proceedings, and out of deference to the committee's request for confidentiality, we, on behalf of Mr. Pettitte, will not comment on the nature or specifics of his testimony."
The committee said medical experts will testify about the effects of such substances.
made of him in a sworn deposition," two of Pettitt's lawyers, Jay Reisinger and Thomas Farrell, said in a statement. "Out of respect for the sensitive nature
GEORGE MITCHELL
Former Senate Majority Leader
A former Yankees teammate of Pettitte and Clemens, Chuck Knoblauch, spoke to committee
staff Friday.
The day before, an employee of the sports agency that represents Clemens and Pettit went to Capitol Hill to be interviewed.
McNamee said he injected
Clemens with HGH and steroids in 1998, 2000 and 2001.
Clemens has repeatedly and vigorously denied that, including in a recorded television interview and a live news conference — as well as through his lawyers.
Clemens did acknowledge he received injections from McNamee, but he said they were for vitamin B-12 and the painkiller lidocaine.
When Mitchell testified at a committee hearing Jan. 15, he was asked whether he was still comfortable with McNamee's credibility.
"We believe that the statements provided to us were truthful," Mitchell said.
McNamee also said he acquired HGH from former New York Mets clubhouse employee Kirk
Radomski for Knoblauch in 2001 — and McNamee said he injected Knoblauch with HGH.
Radomski pleaded guilty in April to federal felony charges of distributing steroids and laundering money.
He is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, then speak to committee staff on Feb. 12.
Last week, Ward said he believed
Pettitte would tell Congress he discussed HGH with Clemens between the 2001 and 2002 seasons.
Ward said Pettitte talked about HGH with McNamee following a conversation with Clemens.
Richard Emery, another lawyer for McNamee, has said the trainer and Pettite also discussed steroids use by Clemens.
The 35-year-old Pettitte, who
won four championships with the Yankees then helped the Houston Astros reach their first World Series, returned to New York last season and went 15-9.
This offseason, he agreed to a $16 million, one-year contract to play for the Yankees in 2008.
SUPER BOWL
Game sets all-time record
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The 97.5 million viewers who saw the New York Giants' last-minute win over the New England Patriots made it the most-watched Super Bowl ever and second biggest event in American television history.
Only the "MASH" series finale in 1983, with 106 million viewers, was seen by more people, Nielsen Media Research said Monday. Sunday's game eclipsed the previous Super Bowl record of 94.08 million, set when Dallas defeated Pittsburgh in 1996.
This year's game had almost all the ingredients Fox could have hoped for: a tight contest with a thrilling finish involving a team that was attempting to make history as the NFLs first unbeaten team since 1972.
But the Giants ended New England's bid for perfection, 17-14. Throughout the game, the teams were never separated by more than a touchdown.
"You might like your equation going in, but you still need some breaks going your way," said Ed Goren, Fox sports president. The closeness of the game probably added a couple million viewers to the telecast's average; the audience peaked at 105.7 million viewers between 9:30 and 10 p.m. EST during the fourth quarter.
Giants quarterback Eli Manning won bragging rights over his brother: Last year's win by Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts was seen by 93.2 million people, now
- during the fourth quarter.
the third most popular Super Bowl. Manning was set to appear on David Letterman's "Late Show" on Monday, but travel delays in Arizona pushed his appearance back to Wednesday.
An eye-popping 81 percent of all TV sets on in the Boston area Sunday were tuned in to the game. In New York, the audience share was 67 percent.
There were signs even before game time that Fox could be headed for a record. The opportunity for a team to make history with football's first 19-0 record was a powerful draw. The Giants and Patriots also had a tight contest in late December that drew strong ratings.
There were past Super Bowls with higher ratings, topped by the 1982 game between San Francisco and Cincinnati (49.1 rating, 73 share). That indicates a larger percentage of homes with televisions were watching the game. But since the American population has increased, along with the number of people with TVs, the actual number of people watching this year was higher.
The Giants' underdog run had also captivated the nation's largest media market, making up for the only potential weakness in the event as a drawing card; the lack of geographical diversity in the competing teams.
in to the game, and 65 percent of the TV sets that were turned on were watching football.
The Giants-Patriots game's actual rating (43.2 rating, 65 share) was the highest for any Super Bowl since 2000. That means 43 percent of the nation's TV sets were tuned
The 97.5 million figure represents the game's average viewership during any given minute. Nielsen said that a total of 148.3 million watched at least some part of the game.
Goren said ratings were stronger than usual for Fox's pregame show, crediting the decision to add a show biz element with Ryan Seacrest to a program often usually only hardcore football fans could love.
Fox, a division of News Corp. charged $2.7 million for 30 seconds of advertising time on the game, and that may have been a bargain.
This year's Super Bowl was one of the few — if only — television events where more people watched the commercials than the program itself, according to digital video recorder makers TiVo Inc.
By measuring live viewership, and the number of people who rewound their DVRs, the most-senior Super Bowl commercial was E-Trade's stock-talking baby, who ended a financial discussion by spitting up, TiVo said.
In what may be a sign of the times, TiVo's top 10 commercials featured only one beer ad and four for either soft drinks or flavored water.
"I didn't see that punch line coming at all," said Todd Juenger, Tivo's research chief.
INTERNATIONAL
Olympic spinner to retire because of injuries
BEIJING — Maurice Greene sprang a little surprise on Monday — he's retiring.
Former Olympic and world champion cited nagging injuries for his decision, making the announcement halfway around the globe and not long after the Super Bowl had ended in Glendale, Ariz.
Traveling in China inspecting Olympic facilities with a group of contenders for Olympic gold, 33-
year-old Greene said injuries forced him to retire.
"It's a little sad for me but it's happy at the same time because I've had a great career. I've done a lot of great things." Greene said. "For the last couple of years, I've had nagging injuries that have stopped my training. So I think it's better to just call it quits."
Greene, native of Kansas City, Kan., was the dominant spinner of the late 1990s and into the new century. He set a world record for the 100 meters in 1999 and won the sprint at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Like many sprinters, Greene could be boastful like a heavyweight boxer.
He won world championship 100 titles in 1997, 1999 and 2001. At Seville, Spain, in '99, he won the 200 and 400-meter relay golds in a rare triple.
"I like to say I'm the GOAT," he said. "The greatest of all time — in my time."
Associated Press
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