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Clemens' Trainer: I Had To Tell Truth

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The Associated Press

Published: February 9, 2009

NEW YORK - Brian McNamee says he couldn't risk lying to federal agents when they asked him about Roger Clemens and performance-enhancing drugs.

McNamee, the pitcher's former trainer, spoke on "The Howard Stern Show" on Monday as a federal grand jury in Washington looks into whether Clemens lied to Congress.

"You just think of circumstances," McNamee said during the 45-minute interview. "It wasn't worth that risk of that being over my head for six years - that's the term they have to investigate you and convene a grand jury."

McNamee declined comment after leaving Stern's studio. He has told federal agents, baseball investigator George Mitchell and a House of Representatives committee that he injected Clemens more than a dozen times with steroids and human growth hormone from 1998-01.

McNamee said he doesn't believe he violated Clemens' loyalty by confessing to authorities.

BONDS CASE: Federal prosecutors are again asking a judge to let them show a jury three drug test results they say show Barry Bonds used steroids.

The judge said last week she was inclined to throw out those results unless someone could directly testify to collecting the slugger's urine samples.

In a court filing Monday, prosecutors included snippets of Bonds' grand jury testimony saying Bonds' former trainer, Greg Anderson, collected the samples. It also included testimony from a former BALCO executive saying Anderson dropped off urine samples labeled with Bonds' name.

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