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Clemens Releases Taped Call with His Accuser

By Tom Goldman, Robert Siegel

Published January 7, 2008 at 1:00 PM PST

Roger Clemens is fighting back hard, trying to salvage a reputation that was badly damaged when he was linked to performance enhancing drugs in the Mitchell report on doping in baseball.

Clemens appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday, denying that he had ever used steroids, and he had a dramatic news conference Monday in Houston, where reporters heard a recording of a telephone conversation between Clemens and his personal trainer Brian McNamee.

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Tom Goldman

Tom Goldman is NPR's sports correspondent. His reports can be heard throughout NPR's news programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and on NPR.org.

Robert Siegel

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.