Sports Illustrated writer E.M. Swift takes a crack looking at Roger Clemens possible doping found at this link.
Is it proof he (Clemens) took steroids? Of course not. But two questionable characters crossed paths with Clemens around the time of the remarkable turnaround in his career. The first was Jose Canseco, the Johnny Appleseed of steroids in Major League Baseball, who spread word of their magic wherever he went and was a teammate of Clemens' on the Red Sox in '96. Here's what Canseco wrote in his tell-all steroid-ography Juiced:
"One of the benefits of steroids is that they're especially helpful in countering the effects of aging. So in Roger's case, around the time he was leaving the Boston Red Sox -- and Dan Duquette, the general manager there, was saying he was 'past his prime' -- Roger decided to make some changes. He started working out harder. And whatever else he may have been doing to get stronger, he saw results."
He goes on:
The second person who came into Clemens' life in that period was the strength and conditioning coach of the Toronto Blue Jays, a young man named Brian McNamee, who has been his personal trainer ever since.
I thought this was all kinda bogus, however:
Separately, according to a source who used to work with McNamee, federal investigators have pursued a money trail through computer files that have led them directly back to Clemens and teammate Andy Pettitte, who also employed McNamee as his personal trainer. The noose has tightened, according to the source, and it will all come out before long.
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