I know some don't like to see/read these types of things so I threw
both articles into one post....like ripping a band-aid off in one
swift pull!

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Report: Tests link Clemens' DNA to syringes
by FOXSports.com

Updated: February 3, 2009, 11:45 AM EST

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9172600/Report:-Tests-link-Clemens%27-DNA-to-\
syringes?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=49

Tests have linked Roger Clemens' DNA to blood in syringes that his
former personal trainer says he used to inject the pitcher with
performance-enhancing drugs, according to a report.

Citing two unidentified sources familiar with the investigation, The
Washington Post reported Tuesday that the DNA results are preliminary
and subject to verification tests. The newspaper said Clemens
voluntarily gave a DNA sample to federal authorities, according to the
sources, and it still remains to be determined whether the syringes
ever contained steroids or human growth hormone.

The test results could prove important to the investigation into
whether Clemens lied under oath to Congress last year when he denied
using steroids or HGH.

Prosecutors have asked a federal grand jury in Washington to decide
whether to indict the seven-time Cy Young Award winner. Brian 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 HGH from 1998-2001.

Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, told the Post that the DNA testing
"won't matter at all."

"It will still be evidence fabricated by McNamee," Hardin was quoted
as saying. "I would be dumbfounded if any responsible person ever
found this to be reliable or credible evidence in any way."

The Associated Press reported last week that, according to a person
close to the case, the world-renowned UCLA Olympic doping lab — where
the "clear" and the "cream" of BALCO infamy first were uncovered — has
in hand the physical evidence McNamee turned over to federal
prosecutors in early 2008 that his side says will link Clemens to drug
use.

For the items to play a role in the case — to help settle the he-said,
he-said between Clemens and McNamee — investigators must know what,
exactly, they contain.

McNamee's lawyers said last year the material included vials of
testosterone and unused needles Clemens gave to McNamee. They also
said they turned over needles used to inject Clemens — needles that
were contained in a beer can McNamee says was removed from the trash
at the pitcher's New York apartment in 2001 — and gauze used to wipe
blood off Clemens after a shot.

At the time, Clemens' camp called it "manufactured" evidence, while
the trainer's side said the items were thrown in a box by McNamee and
kept for years in case he needed to "protect himself" somewhere down
the line.

"The defendants will undoubtedly claim it was tampered with. But the
jury will decide whether that's true or not," one of McNamee's
lawyers, Richard Emery, said in a telephone interview Friday. "I don't
think there's any doubt that it'll be admitted in the case, assuming
that it reveals that Clemens' DNA is mixed with steroids or HGH."

Asked last week to comment on the UCLA lab's role, Hardin said through
a spokesman: "We're happy that they're using such great resources, but
it doesn't matter. Because at the end of the day, this is just a bunch
of junk that was put together in a dark, dusty basement years ago by
McNamee."

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Report: Bonds' urine tests positive for drugs
by FOXSports.com

Updated: February 3, 2009, 7:50 PM EST

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9175548/Report:-Bonds%27-urine-tests-positive\
-for-drugs?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=49

A urine sample taken from Barry Bonds in 2003 as part of Major League
Baseball's anonymous testing program has tested positive for
performance-enhancing substance, The New York Times reported on its
Web site, citing people familiar with the situation.

The initial samples did not test positive under baseball's program,
but the samples were retested by federal authorities after being
seized in 2004. The results may become a key factor in Bonds' upcoming
perjury trial, the people said on condition of anonymity.

The 2003 urine samples were among many pieces of evidence that Bonds'
attorneys asked the judge in the case to ban in a motion filed two
weeks ago.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston will hear arguments from Bonds'
lawyers and the government about the admissibility of those samples
and other evidence on Thursday. Among the other evidence are doping
calendars and handwritten notes.

Bonds' perjury trial is scheduled to begin March 2. The allegations
are that he perjured himself when he told a federal grand jury
investigating Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO, that he had
never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.