WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The key witness in Roger Clemens’s perjury trial testified on Thursday that he understated the pitching ace’s alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs to federal agents in order to protect the baseball player.

With Clemens’ top lawyer probing for holes in his testimony, the pitcher’s former trainer Brian McNamee said he underplayed Clemens’ alleged use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone when he first met with agents in June 2007 in New York.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The former trainer to Roger Clemens will undergo more key cross-examination in the baseball star’s perjury trial on Thursday, with the defense expected to attack inconsistencies in the trainer’s story.

Clemens’ former trainer Brian McNamee underwent sharp questioning from the pitching great’s defense lawyer on Wednesday as he probed for holes in McNamee’s testimony about Clemens’ alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top defense lawyer in ex-baseball star Roger Clemens’ perjury trial attacked the credibility of the star prosecution witness on Wednesday, asking, “Do you sometimes just make stuff up?”

As Clemens’ former trainer Brian McNamee shifted in the witness chair, defense lawyer Rusty Hardin attacked McNamee’s motives and recollection of injecting Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs in 1998, 2000 and 2001.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former trainer who says he gave ex-Major League Baseball star Roger Clemens performance-enhancing drugs is expected to face a rough cross-examination by defense lawyers on Wednesday in the pitcher’s perjury trial.

Brian McNamee, Clemens’ former trainer, is at the core of prosecution charges that the ex-pitcher lied to Congress about using anabolic steroids and human growth hormone.

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – The star prosecution witness
in Roger Clemens’ perjury trial testified on Tuesday that he
secretly stashed medical waste that became evidence of the
former ace pitcher’s alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Brian McNamee, Clemens’ former trainer, later assured
Clemens he would never betray him over his alleged drug use.

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – The star prosecution witness
in Roger Clemens’ perjury trial testified on Tuesday that he
kept used needles and other drug waste to quiet his wife’s fears
that he would “go down” for the pitcher’s alleged use of
performance-enhancing drugs.

Brian McNamee, Clemens’ former trainer, said he and his
wife, Eileen, argued repeatedly about him giving Clemens human
growth hormone and anabolic steroids from 1998 to 2001.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The star prosecution witness in Roger Clemens’ perjury trial will return for a second day of testimony on Tuesday with more vivid details expected about the former baseball pitcher’s alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Brian McNamee, whose testimony is crucial to prosecutors’ charges that Clemens lied to Congress about his alleged drug use, gave jurors a detailed description on Monday of injecting Clemens with anabolic steroids while with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A key prosecution witness in Roger Clemens’s perjury trial said on Monday he started giving the former baseball star “bootie shots” of anabolic steroids at his request during the 1998 season.

Brian McNamee, a former personal trainer for Clemens, said he first injected the pitcher in his apartment suite at the Toronto Blue Jay’s Skydome stadium.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte’s wavering testimony that former teammate Roger Clemens told him he used performance-enhancing drugs should stand, the judge in Clemens’ perjury trial ruled on Monday, handing a victory to prosecutors.

Pettitte testified two weeks ago that Clemens told him in 1999 or 2000 he had used human growth hormone, a key piece of testimony for prosecutors who have charged Clemens of lying to Congress about using performance-enhancing drugs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former baseball pitching ace Roger Clemens showed no signs he used anabolic steroids while playing for the Houston Astros, the team’s physician testified on Thursday at Clemens’s federal perjury trial.

Dr. David Lintner, the Astros’ team physician, said Clemens lacked symptoms of steroid use such as overdeveloped muscles, leanness, acne or male pattern baldness when he played for the team from 2004 to 2006.