Human Growth Hormone

While many professional athletes have been denying use of human growth hormone to boost performance, one man is standing tall in his support of poor, misunderstood HgH. With the take-no-prisoners bravado of the character he plays in "Rambo," the fourth installment in his hugely successful film franchise, Sylvester Stallone, 61, told Time magazine that HgH was behind the super-buff, senior-licious physique he flaunts in the movie while dispatching a reported 236 bad guys to their maker.

At first look, all is good in our world of sports. Super Sunday was pretty much that. It was a shockingly competitive game that canonized another Manning brother, correctly so, and saved us from Boston winning everything in pro sports this season, after all. Beware of omens, Celtics. The Lakers have a new player and new hope. The Clippers have internal turmoil and we're used to that. College basketball is now officially in its long run to the Final Four.

NEW YORK -- One of Brian McNamee's lawyers said Sunday he believed 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 law enforcement official.

WASHINGTON -- Barry Bonds will not appear before Congress on Wednesday. Roger Clemens will be the star baseball player under oath, and he has vowed to testify he never used steroids. But as Bonds awaits trial on charges that he lied under oath when he told a federal grand jury he had never knowingly used steroids, the credibility of those charges could be enhanced or weakened by how Clemens emerges from his testimony, according to one House member who will hear him Wednesday.

It took four hours and 41 minutes -- about as long as the average Yankees-Red Sox game -- for an overriding truth to emerge from Wednesday's hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The investigation into steroid use in baseball should not have come to this, a made-for-TV tragicomedy of sometimes fumbling questions and evasive answers timed by an impatient gavel.

Mike Wise, Washington Post It wasn't just that he almost certainly lied on Capitol Hill; it was the enormity of Roger Clemens' untruth, the Texas-sized audaciousness to think that his stature in society was big enough to get away with committing perjury. . . . As the contradictions kept coming Wednesday in the Rayburn House Office Building, Clemens came across as a megalomaniac, a habitual liar and a barrel-chested fraud.

The congressional committee showdown between Roger Clemens and his former trainer Brian McNamee produced new revelations in their ongoing exchange of opposing statements about whether the trainer injected the seven-time Cy Young Award winner with performance-enhancing drugs.

The man who has the power to immediately suggest federal law enforcement authorities launch an investigation into the truthfulness of Roger Clemens' sworn statements to Congress was noncommittal on that subject at the end of Wednesday's "robust discussion." "I don't know if that's the next step," said Rep. Henry A.

Usually in this country, baseball partisans are paying customers who shell out for peanuts and hot dogs, move the turnstile, crack open the Cracker Jack and root, root, root for the home team. They are not, traditionally speaking, members of Congress batting around the issue of Roger Clemens and steroids as if their party affiliation was a logo emblazoned across a cap and jersey.