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Pat Jordan / Baseball Analysts:
Friends — It's nice to have friends, especially friends one makes during the course of business. It's even nicer if those new friends are celebrities. Take Mike Wallace, for example. At 89, Mr. Wallace has made a lot of celebrity friends during the 40 years he has been a reporter for CBS's “60 Minutes.”
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Gary Dzen / Boston Globe:
Transcript: Clemens on ‘60 Minutes’ — Below is the complete transcript of Mike Wallace's interview with Roger Clemens, which will air this evening on “60 Minutes". The transcript is courtesy of CBS: — STUDIO OPEN: WITH 354 WINS, ROGER CLEMENS IS ONE OF THE BEST PITCHERS IN THE HISTORY OF BASEBALL.
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John Delcos / USA Today:
Clemens, Pettitte asked to testify before Congress — Roger Clemens denied taking steroids on his website. He will deny taking them Sunday night on 60 Minutes. — He now gets a chance to deny it before Congress. — Clemens and his accuser, his former trainer Brian McNamee …
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USA Today:
Clemens: steroid, HGH injections ‘never happened’ — Roger Clemens said during an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday that he was never injected with illegal performance-enhancing drugs by his former trainer and doesn't know what he can do to prove his innocence.
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ESPN:
Clemens refutes former trainer's claims, might not sue — NEW YORK — Roger Clemens discussed taking a lie-detector test, was “shocked” close friend Andy Pettitte used human growth hormone and, in his first interview since the Mitchell report, said — again — that he probably will retire.
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The Crawfish Boxes
Anthony McCarron / NY Daily News:
Brian Cashman: Three written in for pen — By Brian Cashman's estimation, only three relievers are assured of slots in the Yankee bullpen - Mariano Rivera, Kyle Farnsworth and LaTroy Hawkins. The rest of the pen, Cashman says, is likely to come from the team's pool of young pitchers …
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NY Daily News:
Armed & dangerous — With the new year, the countdown has begun for pitchers and catchers, but who would've believed the countdown would still be going on for when Johan Santana is going to be traded by the Minnesota Twins? — According to Hank Steinbrenner, the Yankees have not closed …
Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Cashman: My job has changed — Brian Cashman made an appearance at Fenway Park today for the annual Hot Stove/Cool Music Roundtable. It's a fundraiser for Theo Epstein's charitable foundation. — For the first time in public, Cashman admitted what has become increasingly evident …
Rob Bradford / Boston Herald:Cashman opens up — GM discusses Santana, Yanks hierarchy
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Peter's Red Sox Forever
Michael O'Keeffe / NY Daily News:
Ex-minor leaguer may sue MLB — Rich Hartmann sits in a booth at a Penn Station restaurant and sips on a beer as he waits with dozens of other commuters for the train home to Long Island and wonders what might have been. — Hartmann is now a 35-year-old operations manager at a Manhattan bank …
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Rob Biertempfel / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Bucs' Parker hopes 12th time is the charm — TRIBUNE-REVIEW — If he had a ballot, Dave Parker would think twice before putting Barry Bonds or Mark McGwire into the Hall of Fame. — But Parker would not hesitate to vote for himself. — “I was probably the best player in baseball from 1975 until '80,” Parker said.
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Honest Wagner
Dan Rosenheck / New York Times:
Raines Could Slide Safely Into the Hall on First Try — Even if Tim Raines had not been among the greatest base runners in baseball history, he would still be comfortably qualified for the Hall of Fame, which will announce its new members on Tuesday. Raines was regularly among the league leaders in on-base percentage.
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Dan Agonistes
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Just for Men Just Right for Former Stars — It was (and is) cheesy, hokey, goofy, silly and evidently effective. It was a cri de coeur to men that their moribund love lives could be resuscitated with brush-in facial hair gel. It was the Just for Men advertisement with Keith Hernandez …
John Sickels / Minor League Ball:
Philadelphia Phillies Top 20 Prospects for 2008 — Philadelphia Phillies Top 20 Prospects for 2008 — All grades are EXTREMELY PRELIMINARY and subject to change. — Carlos Carrasco, RHP, Grade B — Adrian Cardenas, 2B, Grade B — Josh Outman, LHP, Grade B
