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BOSTON -- The injury hex hovering over the Yankees is now affecting players before they join the team, including Roger Clemens. During Saturday's game, general manager Brian Cashman got a call from Clemens, who said he's feeling fatigue in his right groin and will not be able to make his planned debut Monday in Chicago. "He's optimistic that this isn't something that's a big deal," Cashman said. "Fatigue is the word he used. He's going to go to Tampa and our doctors there will take a look at it and then we'll have our own word." Clemens, 44, told Cashman...

BOSTON, June 2 — A season rife with injuries took another discouraging turn for the Yankees on Saturday. Roger Clemens, who was expected to start on Monday in Chicago, will miss at least the series against the White Sox. Kei Igawa, who has spent nearly a month in the minors trying to revamp his delivery, is expected to start in Clemens’s place against the White Sox. Clemens, who turns 45 in August, has made three minor league starts for the Yankees’ affiliates without any reported physical setbacks. But the groin, which troubled him off and on in his first five...

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Johnny Drennen was California coolin' it two hours before stepping in against the first legend ever to play for the Lexington Legends, Mr. Roger Clemens. "It's just like facing any other pitcher," the 19-year-old from San Diego said, sounding just cocky enough to believe his silly cliché. "Look fastball, hit fastball." I rolled my eyes listening to the kid. Two hours later, I was pulling my chin up off my laptop keyboard. Johnny Drennen circles the bases thanks to some "room service" from Roger Clemens. Look fastball, hit fastball, watch fastball shockingly leave Applebee's Park and clatter...

CIA, W. Germany kept Eichmann's location a secret The United States was aware that West Germany held information on the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s, but chose to keep the matter secret, fearing that the arrest of the Nazi fugitive might lead to embarrassing revelatio ns about links between senior German officials and other Nazis. This information, as well as the pressure that West Germany applied on the Central Intelligence Agency in order to prevent the leak of this sensitive information, is detailed in hundreds of newly declassified documents released by the U.S. government yesterday. The government released...

Will it be Rocket Launch or Rocket Failure? Clemens vs. Contreras

Roger Clemens' orange Hummer - a present from the New York Yankees for his 300th win - was stolen Wednesday after the pitcher's son drove it to school and left it unlocked, police said. School district police issued a statewide all-points bulletin about the Hummer, taken from Memorial High at about 8:30 a.m. Clemens, who was at spring training with the Houston Astros in Florida, was offering a $10,000 reward for the vehicle's return and information about who took it. Roger Clemens couldn't immediately be reached for comment by The Associated Press. He earned his 300th victory in 2003 with...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Roger Clemens filed for a record $22 million in salary arbitration on Tuesday, and the Houston Astros offered the seven-time Cy Young Award winner $13.5 million. The Rocket, who helped lead the Astros within one win of their first World Series appearance, still has not decided whether to pitch this year or retire. Until now, the highest figure ever submitted for arbitration was $18.5 million in 2001 by New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, who then agreed to a $189 million, 10-year deal. The highest salary ever earned by a pitcher in a single season was...

Roger Clemens was given an emphatic apology Thursday for "unjustly" being ejected from his 10-year-old son's baseball game last weekend in Colorado. David King, president of tournament organizer Triple Crown Sports, said "Mr. Clemens was a non-aggressor and a victim of mistaken identity and confusion" by an upset umpire. Roger Clemens accepts an apology issued for his ejection from his son's game.(AP) Clemens was asked to leave son Kacy's game Saturday in Craig, Colo., when a 22-year-old ump said the Houston Astros pitcher spit a sunflower seed at him. Moments earlier, Kacy was called out on a stolen base attempt...

Printer-friendly format Aug. 4, 2004, 1:27AM Clemens says he deserves apology Pitcher adamant in saying alleged spitting incident did not happen as was reported By MOISEKAPENDA BOWER Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle RESOURCES Astros pitcher Roger Clemens wants an apology. Astros pitcher Roger Clemens wants an apology. After seeing his name sullied following an incident at a youth league baseball tournament where he allegedly spit a sunflower seed at an umpire to protest a questionable call, Clemens took the media to task after the Astros' 3-2 victory over Atlanta on Tuesday night. According to Associated Press reports, Clemens was ejected after...

Associated Press CRAIG, Colo. -- Astros pitcher Roger Clemens was asked to leave a youth baseball game over the weekend for arguing a close call that went against his son's team. Clemens was at the game Saturday watching his son, Kacy, compete in a 10-and-under game organized by Triple Crown Sports when Clemens contested a call at second base that went against the Katy Cowboys. He spit sunflower seeds at an umpire's leg and was asked to leave, said Jim Carpenter, a field supervisor with Triple Crown. "I supported the umpire's decision and he [Clemens] respectfully left," Carpenter told the...

HOUSTON (AP) -- Roger Clemens moved into second place on the career strikeouts list behind fellow Houston-area native Nolan Ryan, and became first six-game winner in the majors to lead the Astros over Pittsburgh 6-2 Wednesday night. Clemens struck out Raul Mondesi swinging in the fifth inning to pass Hall of Fame left-hander Steve Carlton with No. 4,137.

I just left the Astros vs Pirates and watched Roger Clemens pass Steve Carlton for #2 all time strike out leader behind another great Texan, Nolan Ryan. He struck out 7 and picked up the win.

Roger Clemens ended last season as a living legend in New York. On Tuesday, he became a rat. And a turncoat. And a traitor. He did not simply become a former Yankee by signing to play for his hometown Astros. He became an enemy of the state. He became the Long Island Lolita, Leona Helmsley, Martha Stewart and Kathie Lee Gifford rolled into one. He became the stalled subway car that makes New Yorkers late, the crosstown traffic that makes them fussy. He became a stupid tourist, too, all in one day, all by changing his mind about retiring and...

CBS News just said that Roger Clemens will be signing with the Houston Astros.

Monday, May 26 Rocket can't reel off 300th on Memorial Day - Associated Press NEW YORK -- Roger Clemens failed in his first bid for his 300th win, leaving the New York Yankees' game against the Boston Red Sox on Monday trailing 7-3. Clemens, who won his 299th game last Wednesday in Boston, is looking to become the 21st 300-game winner in baseball history and first since Nolan Ryan in 1990. His next start is scheduled for Sunday in Detroit. Clemens, who won 192 games in 13 seasons in Boston, would have become the second pitcher to win his 300th...

<p>Granted, there is upheaval in the world and there are battles where a great deal is at stake -- life itself. All the more precious, then, the minor skirmishes on the home front that mean a great deal in a small way and remind us of how lucky we are to feel innocent hatreds, from summer to summer, at the ballpark.</p>

<p>March 18, 2003 -- TAMPA - Roger Clemens still remembers the dull ache that filled the family living room that terrible evening in 1969, the unguarded fear in his mother's eyes. Dread at the dinner hour. His brother stared straight ahead at the television, watching the numbers tumble onto the screen, until the one he was waiting for appeared. Then Richard Clemens walked wordlessly back to his room and shut the door as his mother fell to her knees, seized with sadness.</p>

As they get closer to their season opener in Japan, the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners are jittery. They're not the only ones - with war possible, major league baseball is wondering whether now's the time to play ball so far from home. There were no plans Monday for the teams to call off their trip to Tokyo. The A's and Mariners are supposed to leave in a couple of days and scheduled to play a two-game series beginning March 25. But commissioner Bud Selig and baseball officials were busy talking to the State Department, the FBI and other government...

Mark Twain, who knew it well, once called the Mississippi River "the body of the nation," and indeed its muddy water has been the lifeblood of commerce and communication for much of the past two centuries. 2003 will mark the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's arranging to acquire the river from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase.As part of that observance, the National Geographic Society sent historians Stephen E. Ambrose (who died in October) and Douglas G. Brinkley, and photographer Sam Abell, to travel the length of the river and report back. The result is a spectacular new book,...