Roger Clemens

Roger Clemens Close to Deal to Work with Astros Pitchers in 2013

Former Astros (and Skeeters) pitcher Roger Clemens is reportedly close to signing a deal with the Astros to be a part of the organization in a yet to be determined capacity. According to a report in on Chron.com, Clemens will meet with Astros GM Jeff Luhnow on Tuesday to discuss his role with the te ... More >>

Straw Polling of MLB Hall Of Fame Voters Is (Sort Of) Good News For Craig Biggio And Jeff Bagwell

As potential Hall of Fame classes go across all sports, I'm not sure that one city has more invested emotionally right now than the city of Houston does in balloting for next year's induction class into the Baseball Hall of Fame. First baseman Jeff Bagwell is on the ballot for the third time, and ... More >>

Roger Clemens: Fastball's Gone, But Rumors Of Comeback Aren't

If Roger Clemens had wanted to quell rumors that he wasn't launching a comeback into Major League Baseball, then he really should start pitching a lot worse. Last night, before a sellout crowd in Sugarland, Clemens and the Sugar Land Skeeters strangled the Long Island Ducks for four scoreless inning ... More >>

The Roger Clemens Comeback Tour Continues

Roger Clemens claims he's not coming back to major league baseball this season. I don't think anybody really believes Clemens when he says he's not coming back to the majors, otherwise, this whole thing doesn't make sense. If he's not coming back, then why else go through the motions of getting ba ... More >>

The Return of Roger Clemens and Some Other Dumb Ideas for Jim Crane

I've been onboard with most of what the Houston Astros have done this season. The team needed to be blown up. New blood was needed in the front office, the dugout, and on the roster. All that has happened, and though the team has been bad, the promise of the future has kept me invested in this team. ... More >>

Roger Clemens Impressive In Start With Sugar Land Skeeters, What's Next?

If you build it, they will come. And if you start a 50-year-old, multiple Cy Young award-winning World Series champion, who has been in the headlines fighting doping and perjury allegations, they will pay more money to come, buy more merchandise, and cheer more loudly. Oh, and ESPN will be there, to ... More >>

Texans-Saints: Five Things To Watch

Every even-numbered year since I got into radio in 2007 (and perhaps even before that, I just wasn't paying attention), the Houston Texans would travel east on I-10 in mid-August (actually, to be more accurate, they probably flew charter) to practice for the entire week against the New Orleans Saint ... More >>

Houston Chronicle Sports Goes Bleacher Report

The Houston Chronicle sports page is a sad shadow of what it used to be. Tons of talented writers have been laid off the past several years, or they have departed on their own because they just couldn't take it anymore. Many of the reporters left are having to double up on beats, like Joseph Duarte ... More >>

Roger Clemens To The Sugar Land Skeeters: Who's His Host Family?

The Sugar Land Skeeters have been drawing decent crowds to Constellation Field in their inaugural season, but they no doubt will be turning away fans in the near future on some days. Word has leaked out, first via the indefatigable Mark Berman (as fa as we can tell, at least) that Roger Clemens wil ... More >>

Roger Clemens' Attorney Rusty Hardin Speaks Out On The Perjury Trial (w/ AUDIO link)

We may never know the truth -- whether Roger Clemens was just the most steadfast, hubris-filled liar of all-time or if he was the most doggedly competitive, wrongly accused innocent victim of hearsay and other people's lies of all-time -- but we do know now that Roger Clemens will walk the streets a ... More >>

Roger Clemens, Steroids, and the Baseball Morality Police

There are still a lot of people upset about last week's Roger Clemens verdict. Sure, most of the people appear to be sportswriters and not actual tax-paying citizens, but that's beside the point. Sportswriter Ken Rosenthal and his baseball-reporting pals see the whole thing as a travesty of justice ... More >>

The Houston Astros Are Seeking The Added Dimensions Of Roger Clemens; We Offer 20

You're the new owner of a major league baseball team. And you come with a bunch of baggage attached. Baggage like war profiteering and various EEOC charges involving sexist and racial statements and actions directed toward your employees. Your team is bad, and there are large portions of your fan ba ... More >>

Roger Clemens: Not Guilty On All Counts

A federal jury has exonerated pitching legend Roger Clemens on all six perjury charges, ending an incredibly long saga. Clemens was charged with perjury for statements he made to a Congressional panel indicating he never, ever, ever used any performance-enhancing drugs, a statement believed only by ... More >>

MySpace? 5 Other Things Roger Clemens's Trial Judge Wants Jurors to Avoid

Being a juror for a long, high-profile trial can be a burden, as you're forced to severely limit your news-reading habits so as not to be influenced by stories. The judge in the Roger Clemens lawsuit has issued the standard warning for potential jurors, but he specifically included what might be th ... More >>

Roger Clemens Ordered to Face Trial Again

Your favorite Astro, back in court.​In a not too surprising development, U.S. District Court Judge Reginald Walton ruled earlier this afternoon, after a morning of oral arguments, that double jeopardy did not attach during the aborted Roger Clemens trial earlier this summer. As a result, the ... More >>

Double Jeopardy and Roger Clemens: More Than Just a Bad Ashley Judd Movie

Double Jeopardy: Not just a bad Ashley Judd movie.​The Roger Clemens perjury trial finally started last week. Then just as soon as it got started, it was over as an angry judge called a mistrial because of prosecutorial stupidity. There's been a lot of discussion on whether these hearings sh ... More >>

Roger Clemens Goes All Tony Soprano and Dodges the Feds

Separated at birth?​"Can you really not be aware we've been building a RICO case against Tony Soprano for five f**king years? And then you blow this popcorn fart?" -- Federal agent to local prosecutor in Sopranos episode "Soprano Home Movies" In the eight or so years that we got acquainted wi ... More >>

Roger Clemens' Attempt To Convince Us Brian McNamee Is Satan Starts Today

These two guys will not be going out for a beer together during the trial​"If Mr. McNamee's mouth is moving, he's making an inconsistent statement," Roger Clemens' attorney Rusty Hardin during a recent hearing The doldrums of summer sports boredom should get a nice little B-12 shot (pun absol ... More >>

Roger Clemens Gets His Day in Court

Rusty Hardin seekin' justice​What sports fans have been expecting for over two years finally happened Thursday as an indictment alleging perjury and obstruction of justice was handed down by a Washington D.C. grand jury against Roger Clemens. Perhaps the only surprise from the indictment is that ... More >>

Clemens to Be Indicted for Making False Statements to Congress

Falling Star: Clemens will be indicted on perjury charges.​Roger Clemens testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform over two years ago saying that his former trainer Brian McNamee had lied about his use of steroids. Today, federal authorities have decided the former Ho ... More >>

Roger Clemens: Ex-Red Sox GM Jumps On The Steroids Bandwagon

The smell of indictments in the air...​I'll admit that I've taken my share of potshots at Roger Clemens. I've tried to rely on matters that have been part of some record, or have some evidence for support, like The Mitchell Report, Clemens' public statements, and things said to Congressional inves ... More >>

The Rocket Is Tweeting About His Erections, We're Pretty Sure

​There's an update in the enthralling love story of Roger Clemens and Mindy McCready!!If you haven't been following events, McCready is apparently the subject of a sex tape during which she was interviewed and said The Rocket sometimes had trouble getting it up, and that her former boyfriend (acto ... More >>

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Clemens Answers Blog Readers' Questions, Reveals Nothing

A big congratulations is in order to the Houstonist blog for the get of the month. The blog, after many failed attempts, was finally able to get Roger Clemens to go on the record and answer reader questions about his career, his future, and of course, Brian McNamee and the Mitchell Report. And ... More >>

The New Roger Clemens Books: He's A Steroid-Using A-Hole, and The Chron's Wimpy

Roger Clemens is no longer the only former professional baseball player under investigation for lying to Congress. With the Tuesday revelation that Sammy Sosa was one of the 104 MLB players to test positive for PED use in 2003 (along with Alex Rodriguez) comes the word that a congressional committee ... More >>

Roger Clemens' Former Flame To Be On Rehab Reality Show

Photo by MACSURAKRoger Clemens unsullied march from adored pitcher to worshipped Hall of Famer continues unabated.If the steroids thing hasn't tarred him -- and really, who is not gonna believe Roger against the word of just about everyone else in the world? -- it's his penchant for great publicity ... More >>

Roger Clemens vs. Brian McNamee: Dismissed (Mostly)

Photo by ToFuGunsSrsly. As happened so many times in his career, when it came to clutch time, Roger Clemens has failed to deliver. U.S. District Court Judge Keith Ellison today dismissed most of Roger Clemens' defamation suit against Brian McNamee, Clemens' former trainer. Ellison partially dism ... More >>

Roger Clemens vs. Brian McNamee: Dismissed (Mostly)

Photo by ToFuGunsSrsly. As happened so many times in his career, when it came to clutch time, Roger Clemens has failed to deliver. U.S. District Court Judge Keith Ellison today dismissed most of Roger Clemens' defamation suit against Brian McNamee, Clemens' former trainer. Ellison partially dism ... More >>

Five More Houstonians and Their Wacky Sexual Escapades

U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent of Houston is faced with a slew of sexual misconduct charges, including aggravated sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact and obstruction of justice, for which he faces a possible sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine. Things look bleak for Judge Kent, but he s ... More >>

Top Ten Names in Sports for 2008

Time for one more year-end top ten... 10. Kimbo Slice - he was supposed to be the man who brought Ultimate Fighting to the masses. Instead, in his second national fight on network television he ended up getting his ass kicked while the league he fought for went out of business. 9. Miguel Tejed ... More >>

Top Ten Names in Sports for 2008

Time for one more year-end top ten... 10. Kimbo Slice - he was supposed to be the man who brought Ultimate Fighting to the masses. Instead, in his second national fight on network television he ended up getting his ass kicked while the league he fought for went out of business. 9. Miguel Tejed ... More >>

Top Ten Reasons Roger Clemens Wasn't Invited to the Final Game at Yankee Stadium

Rich Gedman Hearts Roger Clemens, and He’ll Cuss You Out to Prove It

Steroids and Roger Clemens: Reports of Indictment Greatly Exaggerated

Steroids and Roger Clemens: Time to Add Jeff Bagwell to the List?

Steroids and Roger Clemens: NYDN Calls Out the Chron

He’s Roger Clemens, and He Supports That Message

This Just In: FBI Opens Investigation of Clemens

Steroids and Roger Clemens: Andy Pettitte Won’t Be There When Mr. Clemens Goes to Washington

Steroids and Roger Clemens: Long Road Ahead

Steroids and Roger Clemens: Don't Forget Debbie

Steroids and Roger Clemens and, um, a Wookie

Roger Clemens and Steroids: Stats Don’t Prove Squat

Roger Clemens and Steroids: Hearings Scheduled for a Date to Be Named at a Later Date

Roger Clemens and Steroids: So Many Lies

Roger Clemens Juiced? Wake Me When It’s Over

Steroids and Roger Clemens

Roger Clemens Named in Steroid Report?

Roger Clemens: So Not Worth It

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