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This week in news and sports blogs around the Net:

• Dennis Rodman arrested for domestic violence - LA Times
• Book sales not going so well? Jose Canseco’s $2.5 million home foreclosed on - Fox Sports
• Chelsea soccer players celebrate and party with Jenna Jameson - The Sun
• Top 7: Overhyped Pitching Debuts - Joe Sports Fan
• Joe Buck and Tim McCarver got rides at the World Series by U.S. Marshalls - Sports by Brooks
• Karl Malone Impregnated a 13-year-old - Buffalo News
• We Should Be GMs give their April Phillies Rewind - We Should be GMs
  
• Dwayne Wade explains his relationship with Star Jones - Deuce of Davenport

And in the Smarter Sports Blog we talked about:

• “The Rangers will try anything, and anyone, for a win”
• Buffalo Guard Suspended for Term Paper Ad on Facebook
• Show Me the Money! Eagles Sue Terrell Owens for $770,000
• Peyton Manning Loses his Cool on the Sidelines
• Roger Clemens Linked to John Daly’s Ex, Paulette Dean Daly
  

And the hits just keep on coming for Roger Clemens.

No he hasn’t resurrected his now questionable baseball career, but reports have now surfaced that the Rocket had a romantic relationship with the ex-wife of pro golfer John Daly, Paulette Dean Daly. This report comes just days after Clemens was tied to a romantic relationship with country singer Mindy McCready.

According to the New York Daily News, Clemens arranged trips for Daly to Anaheim Stadium to watch him pitch against the Angels while he was playing for the New York Yankees. In addition to the Anaheim trips, he was also to have spent some time with Daly in Palm Springs, California.

When asked to comment about whether her relationship with Clemens was romantic, Daly is quoted saying, “You know what, I’m really uncomfortable talking about this. I’m just going to have to say, ‘No comment.”

For a guy who stayed relatively quiet and away from controversy his entire career, Clemens’ reputation as both a player, husband and friend have now all been thrown under the bus. First the steroid allegations and now his romantic links to McCready and Daly. What’s next? He clubbed a baby seal while dumping motor oil into the Chesapeake Bay while he played for the Red Sox?

Source: New York Daily News

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Jose Canseco’s new book Vindicted is going to be released to the general public starting April first, but one lucky reader was already able to pick up a copy.

Joe Lavin of Boston purchased Canseco’s fully titled book, Vindicted: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball, that happened to be on sale by mistake.

The book, like you would have guessed and by what Canseco has been blabbing for months now, is going to reveal big names in baseball who have been taking steroids. Roger Clemens, Magglio Ordonez and Alex Rodriguez. All names we have heard before and all according to Canseco’s so-called personal encounters with these players.

But what’s even funnier and not even related to baseball is Canseco’s hatred for Alex Rodriguez. The juiced up has-been claims that even after Canseco introduced Rodriguez to a steroid supplier, Rodriguez was trying to have “relations” with his wife and was repeatedly calling her.

And Canseco makes it very clear at the end of chapter to A-Rod:

“So A-Rod, if you’re reading this book, and if I’m not getting through to you, let’s get clear on one thing: I hate your…”.

I can’t write the last few words, but I’m sure you can figure out what it says, or you can just go to Joe Lavin’s site and read it all for yourself.

I thought I read somewhere that steroids might give you mood swings, but I didn’t know it made you throw tantrums like a 5-year-old.

To read what Lavin found in the book, click here.

Source: Deadspin via JoeLavin.com

It was a slow week because of the holidays, but here is what happened in news and sports blogs around the Net:

• Patrick Ewing bad at judging talent, 100% Injury Report gives their take on the New York Knicks - 100% Injury Rate
• Apparently, St. Louis Rams quarterback Marc Bulger was on The Hills. Well, on paper at least - Awful Announcing
• Nick Saban gets jiggy wit it at a holiday party - Every Day Should Be Saturday
• The worst New York Yankees related gifts - Yankees Chick
• Champ Bailey puts Philip Rivers in his place for trash talking - Larry Brown Sports
• What has Derrick Coleman been up to? - Can’t Stop the Bleeding
• Arkansas’ Darren McFadden gets a new Cadillac Escalade - Sports by Brooks

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And in Smarter Sports we talked about:

• The Rock sings the 12 Days of Christmas
• Roger Clemens issues video, denies using steroids and HGH

The Mitchell Report has been out for quite some time now and finally Roger Clemens confronts the world face to face and denies using steroids or HGH (human growth hormone). If you haven’t seen the video because you were too busy stuffing your face this past week, here it is again. And if you’re an avid watcher of the news show 60 Minutes, Clemens states he’ll be doing an interview on the show to clear the air about him using steroids.

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This week in news and sports blogs around the Net:

• Jason Elam release his new book, “Monday Night Jihad” - Sports by Brooks
• One writer upset doctor didn’t screw up Dick Vitale’s surgery - The Sports Hernia
• The best and worst of the College Bowl Games - Rumors and Rants
• Top Ten Baseball Degenerates - Yankees Chick
• Top 7 players on Mitchell Report whose fame has changed - Joe Sports Fan
• Woman arrested for flashing the jumbotron at a Grizzlies game - Awful Announcing

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And in Smarter Sports we talked about:

• NFL Fantasy Stats of the Week
• “Don’t Stop Believin” Tony Romo
• Michael Jordan Laces them up, Practices with Bobcats
• Curt Schilling tells Roger Clemens to Prove Innocence
• Santa Brings the Pain! Kicks Robber While he’s Down

Curt Schilling has never shied away from stating his opinion on his blog and with the release of the Mitchell Report, he’s sure not going to back away from this.

In his blog 38pitches.com, Schilling called out Roger Clemens to clear his name of using performance enhancing drugs or return the 4 Cy Young awards he has won. Schilling says states if Clemens can’t clear his name, that his career technically should have been considered over in 1997 when he had a win total of only 192 games instead of his now 354, because after that, his numbers are tainted.

These are strong words coming from a man who stated that when he was a rookie prospect in Boston, it was Roger Clemens who helped change his career. His “undressing of me and lecture were a major turning point,” Schilling wrote. “I’ve always respected his career accomplishments and regarded him as the greatest pitcher to ever play the game.”

I think Schilling is right. Although it will be hard to prove his innocence on whether or not he took performance enhancing drugs in the past, but if Clemens did take steroids, he should come clean and own up to it. I don’t know how much steroids or HGH can actually help benefit a pitcher, but if you look at the time period he took them and his numbers, then they look like they obviously work.

Although he has issued a statement denying steroid or HGH use, Clemens should try much harder to clear his name rather than stay in hiding from the world. The only things on the line are his legacy and what was once a sure first ballot entry in the Hall of Fame.

Source: Fox Sports, 38pitches.com

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This week in news and sports blogs around the Net:

• Chris Weinke’s stat sheet is only full of injuries - The Sports Hernia
• Clemens may still play although taking service contract from Astros - Deadspin
• Baron Davis takes a shot at Steve Lavin - Larry Brown Sports
• Don Shula won’t give the Patriots credit - Sons of Sam Malone
• 3,500 kids named Olympics in China - 100% Injury Rate

And in Smarter Sports we talked about:

• Adrian Peterson has a record day
• Buzzer beater, basketball montage
• Curt Schilling’s crazy bonus
• The next great basketball player?
• Chris Henry can’t stay out of trouble

Remember when the New York Yankees were pulling hard to bring in Roger Clemens, hoping to give their team some kind of spark. Well, needless to say, we all know they signed him to a $17,690,413 contract prorated from $28,000,022.

Well, Darren Rovell actually figured out the numbers to figure out how much The Rocket cost Steinbrenner, including the 40% luxury tax.

The numbers go as follows:

Per Pitch: $15,047
Per Inning: $245,213
Per Start: $1,375,921
Per Win: $4,127,763

Source: Larry Brown Sports (from AOL Fanhouse via CNBC)

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The fourth time is the charm for Roger Clemens.

After losing his previous three starts after getting a victory in his season debut, the Rocket got win No. 350 last night. He became the first player, and eighth overall, to do so since Hall of Famer Warren Spahn reached the total back in 1963.

Clemens’ record now stands at 2-3 with the 5-1 win over the Minnesota Twins. He pitched eight innings and finished with four strikeouts.

Source: CBS Sportsline.