Clemens invited to testify about steroids

Seven-time Cy Young-winner Roger Clemens is one of three Major League Baseball players invited to testify to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.

{mosads}Clemens and Andy Pettitte, who both pitched for the New York Yankees this year, are on the witness list for the Jan. 16 hearing, along with former Yankee second basemen Chuck Knoblauch, who is now out of baseball, according to a press release from the committee. All three were named in former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell’s (D-Maine) report outlining the use of performance-enhancing drugs by league players.

Clemens has strongly denied he used performance-enhancing drugs since the release of the report.

The committee also invited Brian McNamee, a former trainer to Clemens who in Mitchell’s report said he injected Clemens with drugs, to testify. Kirk Radomski, a former clubhouse employee of the New York Mets who cooperated with Mitchell’s investigators, was also invited to appear at the hearing.