Trainer In Roger Clemens Case: Injecting Wife Felt 'Creepy'

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

Strength coach Brian McNamee felt “creepy” injecting Roger Clemens’ wife, Debbie, with human growth hormone at the couple’s Houston home in 2003, he testified Tuesday at the former pitcher’s federal perjury trial.

When a government investigation into performance-enhancing drugs turned up the heat in 2006, a testy e-mail exchange ensued between Roger Clemens and McNamee.

Jurors saw a copy of an e-mail from Rocket22 (Clemens) threatening to send “his people” after anyone who would rat him out to authorities. McNamee assured Clemens he would not flip but would “hop on a plane, find you and slap you very hard” if the pitcher implicated him.

McNamee, likely to be the government’s only witness who will claim to have firsthand knowledge of Clemens using performance-enhancing drugs, said Tuesday that he injected the seven-time Cy Young Award winner with HGH “10 to 20 times” during the 2000 season.

Defense attorney Rusty Hardin had about 15 minutes of cross-examination time before court recessed for the day.

Although McNamee expressed no qualms about injecting Clemens, injecting the pitcher’s wife from behind as she raised her shirt in the couple’s bathroom was a different story.

“I didn’t feel comfortable bending down in front of my friend’s wife,” McNamee said. “Part of me asked, ‘Why couldn’t Roger do this? He’s seen how I do it enough times.’ Debbie looked at Roger and said, ‘I can’t believe you’re going to let him do this to me.’”

One of the alleged lies the prosecution is pursuing is that Clemens told Congress he was not present when McNamee injected his wife.

McNamee said in 2001 that he retrieved and saved medical waste from Clemens’ New York apartment, where the trainer said injections often took place.

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Olympics-Eftimova seems certain to miss Games after failed dope test

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

Sprinter Inna Eftimova seems certain to miss the London Olympics after she tested positive for human growth hormone somatropin at the world athletics championship in South Korea last year, the Bulgarian said on Friday.

“I’m shocked,” Eftimova, who will turn 24 next month, told local channel bTV. “I still don’t have an explanation because the championships in Daegu were held 10 months ago.

“I received e-mails from (world anti-doping agency) WADA and (world’s athletics governing body) IAAF and I was informed that I could complicate the situation if I decide to appeal.”

Eftimova, who competed at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, was expected to run in three events in London – the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.

“I was preparing for the Olympics and we’re hoping to form a strong relay team,” added Eftimova. “And suddenly … I still don’t know anything about my punishment but I’ll not give up and I’ll come back even stronger.”

Bulgarian sport has been marred by a series of doping offences in the last few months.

In January, three CSKA Sofia soccer club players were suspended for three months after testing positive for methylhexanamine while tennis player Dimitar Kutrovsky was banned for two years earlier this week after a failed dope test for the same stimulant.

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Prolor CEO: It would make sense to find a partner

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

Prolor Biotech Inc. (AMEX: PBTH; TASE: PBTH) has enough cash to conduct late-stage studies of its longer-lasting growth hormone, CEO Dr. Shai Novik told “Bloomberg” in an interview last week, but added that it would make much more sense to find a partner. The company raised a net $35 million in a secondary offering American Stock Exchange last Wednesday.

“Can we do it on our own? Yes, Novik said. However, when you look at the marketing and sales channels, it would make much more sense, even if we develop it on our own, to partner with someone, at least for distribution and marketing purposes.”

Prolor is seeking to become the first company to market a longer-lasting growth hormone, which can be injected once a week instead of once a day. The human growth hormone market is worth $3 billion, according to “Bloomberg”. Current treatments including Genotropin, made by Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE; LSE: PFZ), Humatrope, made by Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY), and Novob, made by Denmark’s Novo Nordisk A/S (OMX: NOVO; NYSE: NVO).

Human Growth Foundation says that there are 50,000 adults in the US with growth deficiency, and that 6,000 new cases are reported each year.

Summer Street Research Partners analyst Bart Classen told “Bloomberg” that Prolors technology would be a major improvement and obviously a very attractive change for patients and physicians. Any of the companies making short-acting hormone could be interested in buying them. Theres definitely a strong chance that the company will be acquired or partner up with a number of the larger companies who would have a natural interest in this product.”

Prolor’s share price fell 1.2% by mid-afternoon on the TASE today to NIS 19.58, after falling 2.4% on the AMEX on Friday to $4.95, giving a market cap of $274 million.

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Eftimova set to miss Games

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

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Sprinter Inna Eftimova seems certain to miss the London Olympics after she tested positive for human growth hormone somatropin at the world athletics championship in South Korea last year, the Bulgarian said on Friday.

“I’m shocked,” Eftimova, who will turn 24 next month, told local channel bTV. “I still don’t have an explanation because the championships in Daegu were held 10 months ago.

“I received e-mails from (world anti-doping agency) WADA and (world’s athletics governing body) IAAF and I was informed that I could complicate the situation if I decide to appeal.”

Eftimova, who competed at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, was expected to run in three events in London – the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.

“I was preparing for the Olympics and we’re hoping to form a strong relay team,” added Eftimova. “And suddenly … I still don’t know anything about my punishment but I’ll not give up and I’ll come back even stronger.”

Bulgarian sport has been marred by a series of doping offences in the last few months.

In January, three CSKA Sofia football club players were suspended for three months after testing positive for methylhexanamine while tennis player Dimitar Kutrovsky was banned for two years earlier this week after a failed dope test for the same stimulant.

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Key witness adamant Clemens used drugs, admits lying

Posted on May 18, 2012 by admin

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The key witness in Roger Clemens's perjury trial stuck to his testimony that the former baseball ace used performance-enhancing drugs even as the defense hammered him on Thursday for saying he had lied to investigators. Brian McNamee, Clemens's former trainer, faced unrelenting cross-examination about his role in the star pitcher's alleged use of anabolic steroids and …

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Guillermo Mota and the 15 Worst Steroid Excuses in Baseball History

Posted on May 18, 2012 by admin

San Francisco Giants pitcher Guillermo Mota is staring at a long lay-off from work after Major League Baseball handed him a 100-game suspension for violating the league's substance abuse policy. Sure enough, he was quick to respond with a creative response, noting that children's cough medicine must have been the reason his test came out positive. Mota isn't the first player to come up with an …

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Prolor May Seek Partner to Market Growth Hormone Product

Posted on May 18, 2012 by admin

By David Wainer – 2012-05-16T22:01:32Z

Prolor Biotech Inc. (PBTH), an Israeli company developing improved versions of existing medicines, may seek a partner for its growth-hormone treatment as final trials are set to begin this year, President Shai Novik said.

The company, which yesterday raised $35 million through a share offering, has enough cash to conduct late-stage studies of the product, known as hGH-CTP, in adults with growth-hormone deficiency as well as mid-stage testing in children with the ailment, Novik said yesterday in an interview near Tel Aviv.

Can we do it on our own? Yes, Novik said. However, when you look at the marketing and sales channels, it would make much more sense, even if we develop it on our own, to partner with someone, at least for distribution and marketing purposes.

Prolor, based in Nes-Ziona, Israel, plans to tap a $3 billion human growth hormone market as it races to become the first to offer a longer-lasting version of human growth hormone that could be injected once weekly. Abnormally small children and adults with growth-hormone deficiency currently take daily injections of treatments such as Pfizer Inc. (PFE)s Genotropin, Novo Nordisk A/S (NOVOB)s Norditropin, and Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY)s Humatrope.

Prolor said on May 7 its mid-stage study of hGH-CTP in adults showed that a single injection could potentially replace seven consecutive daily injections of commercially available human growth hormone therapies.

Prolors technology would be a major improvement and obviously a very attractive change for patients and physicians, Bart Classen, an analyst at Summer Street Research Partners, said by telephone. Any of the companies making short-acting hormone could be interested in buying them. Theres definitely a strong chance that the company will be acquired or partner up with a number of the larger companies who would have a natural interest in this product.

Phillip Frost, chairman of generic-drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA), owns about 20 percent of Prolor. Teva, which paid $6.5 billion to acquire U.S. biotechnology company Cephalon Inc. last year, needs new sources of revenue as its top-selling treatment, a branded multiple-sclerosis medicine called Copaxone, faces increased competition.

More than 50,000 adults in the U.S. are growth-deficient and 6,000 new cases are reported each year, according to the Human Growth Foundation. Side effects of hormone deficiency can include increased fat mass, diminished muscle strength, physical energy and stamina.

Prolor shares were little changed at $5.20 in New York yesterday. The companys shares have risen 22 percent this year.

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Trainer tells tale of 2 wives, injecting Clemens with HGH

Posted on May 18, 2012 by admin

The broad outline was familiar from McNamee’s previous statements: He said he injected Clemens with steroids and human-growth hormone in 2000 and with steroids in 2001, and he gave Debbie Clemens a shot of HGH in 2003. That was in addition to the testimony he gave Monday, when he spoke of a series of steroids injections he said he gave Clemens in 1998, when the pitcher was with the Toronto Blue Jays.

He went on to describe his marital problems, money problems and the legal mess that came about when he got entangled in the federal drugs-in-sports investigation that led him to become a reluctant but cooperating witness against one of the most successful baseball players of all time.

“It destroyed me. It killed me. . . . I put myself in a situation where I had to do this,” McNamee said. “I had to tell the truth.”

Some details were new and fascinating, especially hearing them spoken out loud in a courtroom with Clemens sitting a few feet away. At one dramatic point, the adversaries were actually both standing, when McNamee rose from the witness stand and identified Clemens with an outstretched left arm: “He’s right there with the brown tie.” Clemens looked straight at McNamee, stone-faced and silent.

McNamee is the government’s key witness, the only person who will claim firsthand knowledge of Clemens taking performance-enhancing drugs. The former baseball great is accused of lying when he told Congress in 2008 that he had never used steroids or HGH.

McNamee said he thought he kept the needle, swab and cotton ball from a steroids injection he said took place in Clemens’ New York City apartment in 2001, because McNamee’s wife was convinced the trainer would become the fall guy.

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McNamee says he gave Clemens steroids in '98

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin

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WASHINGTON — Speaking softly, nervously and in detail, Brian McNamee testified about the life-changing moment when, he said, he first gave Roger Clemens a “booty shot” of steroids.

The government’s star witness in the Clemens perjury retrial took the stand Monday and told the jury that he injected one of baseball’s most successful pitchers with steroids about eight to 10 times when they were with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998.

“I knew what I was doing was illegal,” McNamee said. “I wish to God I could take it back.”

Clemens is charged with lying to Congress when he testified in 2008 that he had never used steroids or human growth hormone. The first attempt to try him last July ended in a mistrial when prosecutors showed the jury a snippet of videotaped evidence that had been ruled inadmissible.

The retrial took until its fifth week to get to the heart of the government’s case: McNamee is the only person who will claim firsthand knowledge of Clemens using performance-enhancing drugs.

In his thick New York accent, McNamee covered a lot of ground in about four hours on the stand — and he still has much more to tell when he returns Tuesday. He recalled how he met Clemens when McNamee was the strength and conditioning coach of the Blue Jays during the 1998 season. He said Clemens gave him a $1,000 tip at the end of spring training, that Clemens approached him one day in the clubhouse and asked him to get rid of a bag of some 20 to 30 bottles of steroids.

Then came the fateful day in June when he was asked by Clemens to come to Clemens’ apartment in the Blue Jays’ SkyDome stadium after a game.

McNamee said he found alcohol, needle and gauze and the anabolic steroid Winstrol laid out in the bathroom. He said he felt “a little uncomfortable” while preparing the shot because he’d never done anything like it before. He said he then walked into Clemens’ bedroom.

“Roger pulled down his pants, exposing his right buttocks cheek to me,” McNamee said. A few seconds later, Clemens said he was ready. McNamee said he then “plunged the fluid in into his buttocks.”

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Chief accuser McNamee testifies in Clemens trial

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin

Brian McNamee may be the government’s last, best chance to get a perjury conviction against Roger Clemens.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaking softly, nervously and in detail, Brian McNamee testified about the life-changing moment when, he said, he first gave Roger Clemens a “booty shot” of steroids.

The government’s star witness in the Clemens perjury retrial took the stand Monday and told the jury that he injected one of baseball’s most successful pitchers with steroids about eight to 10 times when they were with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998.

“I knew what I was doing was illegal,” McNamee said. “I wish to God I could take it back.”

Clemens is charged with lying to Congress when he testified in 2008 that he had never used steroids or human growth hormone. The first attempt to try him last July ended in a mistrial when prosecutors showed the jury a snippet of videotaped evidence that had been ruled inadmissible.

The retrial took until its fifth week to get to the heart of the government’s case: McNamee is the only person who will claim firsthand knowledge of Clemens using performance-enhancing drugs.

In his thick New York accent, McNamee covered a lot of ground in about four hours on the stand – and he still has much more to tell when he returns Tuesday. He recalled how he met Clemens when McNamee was the strength and conditioning coach of the Blue Jays during the 1998 season. He said Clemens gave him a $1,000 tip at the end of spring training, that Clemens approached him one day in the clubhouse and asked him to get rid of a bag of some 20 to 30 bottles of steroids.

Then came the fateful day in June when he was asked by Clemens to come to Clemens’ apartment in the Blue Jays’ Skydome stadium after a game.

McNamee said he found alcohol, needle and gauze and the anabolic steroid Winstrol laid out in the bathroom. He said he felt “a little uncomfortable” while preparing the shot because he’d never done anything like it before. He said he then walked into Clemens’ bedroom.

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