Sports Desk
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BASEBALL
ON ’60 MINUTES,’ CLEMENS ADMITS TO LIDOCAINE, B-12 SHOTS
Roger Clemens said a former trainer, Brian McNamee, injected him with the painkiller lidocaine and the vitamin B-12 — not any performance-enhancing drugs.
In the first excerpts released from the pitcher’s interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which is to be broadcast Sunday night, Clemens maintained the denials he has issued since McNamee implicated him in the Mitchell report on doping in baseball, which was released December 13.
McNamee told Mitchell he personally injected Clemens with steroids in 1998 while they were with Toronto, and with steroids and human growth hormone in 2000 and 2001 while with New York.
FOOTBALL
SAPP TELLS RAIDERS HE’S RETIRING
Warren Sapp told the Oakland Raiders yesterday that he was retiring, ending the career of one of the best defensive tackles to play in the NFL. Sapp told the Contra Costa Times that he phoned Raiders owner Al Davis with the news yesterday.
CAMERON FIRED FROM DOLPHINS AFTER 1–15 SEASON
Cam Cameron was fired yesterday after his first year as an NFL head coach. The move means the Miami Dolphins will have its fifth coach in five seasons. Such instability has contributed to the Dolphins’ decline. This season they lost their first 13 games and finished 1–15, the worst record in franchise history.
