BASEBALL
Feds have chat with McNamee
WASHINGTON — The prosecutor seeking an indictment of Roger Clemens got his first chance to question the former baseball star’s chief antagonist, personal trainer Brian McNamee, during a five-hour session Friday that included FBI investigators.
McNamee 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.
This, however, was McNamee’s initial meeting with Assistant U. S. Attorney Daniel Butler, who is presenting evidence to the federal grand jury determining whether Clemens should be charged with lying to Congress when he denied using performance- enhancing drugs.
McNamee did not speak to reporters, only shaking his head when asked if he would comment, as he arrived Friday morning at the U. S. Attorney’s office in Washington accompanied by his lawyers, Richard Emery and Earl Ward.
“It went very well,” Ward said later in a telephone interview, while the trio traveled back to New York by train. “I think there will be additional meetings. They told us they would get in touch with us.”
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Around the majors
• The Atlanta Braves will wait for Tom Glavine to meet with doctors next week before deciding whether to offer a one-year contract, and they are mulling whether to sign Andruw Jones. Glavine, 43, made just 13 starts before season-ending elbow surgery and has not thrown off a mound since. Jones won 10 Gold Gloves as the Braves’ center fielder before signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2008 season. The Dodgers released him Thursday.
• The New York Yankees and Mets won their fight to get public backing for additional financing for their new ballparks that will save them hundreds of millions of dollars in interest payments. The city’s Industrial Development Agency approved additional public bond requests for the teams, which were given hundreds of millions in tax-exempt bonds when construction began in 2006.
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