Ronald Blum

February 11, 2008 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A lawyer for Brian McNamee believes the Justice Department will open a criminal investigation into Roger Clemens' denials of doping.Meantime, the chairman of a congressional committee said comments attributed to one of the pitcher's lawyers could be interpreted as trying to intimidate a federal law enforcement official.

By RONALD BLUM

6 minute read

January 30, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - So far, Roger Clemens and his former personal trainer Brian McNamee have engaged in a he-said, he-said, with no third party providing evidence to back either account.A lawyer for McNamee believes that could change next week, when New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte - Clemens' former teammate and workout partner - speaks to a House committee.

By RONALD BLUM

5 minute read

March 16, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Bowie Kuhn was baseball's bespectacled Ivy League lawyer and looked the part every day of the tumultuous 15 years he ruled as commissioner.Prim and proper with wire-rim glasses, he stood ramrod straight - all 6-foot-5 of him. Detractors called him a ''stuffed shirt'' and ''pompous,'' labels that amused him.

By Ronald Blum

7 minute read

January 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - Roger Clemens beat Brian McNamee to court, filing a defamation suit against the former trainer who claimed to have injected him with performance-enhancing drugs.Clemens filed the suit Sunday night in Harris County District Court in Texas, listing 15 alleged statements McNamee made to the baseball drug investigator George Mitchell.

By RONALD BLUM

6 minute read

February 13, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - Roger Clemens struggled to find the right words under questioning during a congressional hearing Wednesday and denied new accounts of drug use made against him by former teammate and close friend Andy Pettitte.Using words like "misremembered" and mispronouncing the last name of his chief accuser, Brian McNamee, Clemens rambled and stumbled during his early remarks on Capitol Hill.

By RONALD BLUM

7 minute read

November 05, 2008 | Daily Report Online

DANA POINT, Calif. AP - Some baseball agents already are thinking about trying to beat a possible tax increase for their well-paid clients under an Obama administration.President-elect Barack Obama has proposed increasing the top federal income tax rate from 35 percent to 39.6 percent, where it was under president Bill Clinton.

By RONALD BLUM

4 minute read

February 12, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By RONALD BLUM

5 minute read

February 15, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Roger Clemens stuck out his famous right arm - the one that earned 354 major league wins, seven Cy Young Awards and $160 million - and pointed in the direction of his accuser.

By Ronald Blum

7 minute read