Roger Clemens

Players including prominent New York Yankees Roger Clemens, Jason Giambi and Andy Pettitte were named in former U.S. Senator George Mitchell's comprehensive report on steroids use in baseball released Thursday afternoon.

Below is the complete list of players implicated in the report. Depth of evidence varies, of course: Brian Roberts was named by a teammate through hearsay, while the report contains cancelled checks from Paul Lo Duca along with a handwritten thank-you note on Dodger Stadium stationary.  read more »

The Yankees saved their skins—and by some accounts, their manager Joe Torre—when they rallied past a two-run deficit and Roger Clemens’ injured hamstring to beat the Cleveland Indians last night at Yankee Stadium 8 to 4.  read more »

Sunday night’s game was about reaching back to the past, with heavy implications for the upcoming postseason.  read more »

Hughes is a better bet than the Rocket for October.  read more »

Venus Williams' boyfriend, the injured PGA pro Hank Kuehne, has always preferred women's tennis.

"It's shorter and you have some better rallies," he said yesterday from the player's lounge. "I liked watching Michael Chang back in the day. Obviously Agassi. That's it as far as the men are concerned. I mainly watch women."

After enduring the anxiety of watching his girlfriend play this afternoon, tonight he'll also watch his friend Roger Clemens pitch
against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. They met through mutual friends in 2001 when Kuehne injured his shoulder in what he described as a "baseball injury."

"He's done a lot for me by helping me rehab my shoulder and getting me back into business," he said.

"I get really into it and I don't want to miss anything. I watch their body language a lot, and with Roger I'm watching his release point,
different things, just to know even if he struggles a little bit or somebody gets on base, I know he'll be fine if I see certain things."

Between watching Clemens and his girlfriend Williams, who he has been dating for eight months, it's taken a toll.

"It's fun to watch, but I'm getting old -- all the grays," he said, rubbing his salt-and-pepper goatee.

2. Their countrymen could give a sh*t

3. Every other darn country actually cares

4. Their coach looks like your landscape guy

5. The U.S. defied world opinion in launching the most disastrous international adventure in imperial memory: Iraq: and should suffer the consequences in world opinion sweepstakes, the World Cup

6. Terrell Owens chose to play football

7. Allen Iverson chose to play basketball

8. Roger Clemens chose to play baseball

9. Ronaldinho chose to play soccer

Give me a little while, I'll come up with the other reasons...