Sports
The Front Row: Rocket’s big day
By Nick Prevenas, Green Valley News
TESTIFY: All eyes are on Congress, yet again.
Today, Roger Clemens is scheduled to appear in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to further discuss the performance-enhancing allegations he has faced since the Mitchell Report surfaced on Dec. 14.
His best buddy, Andy Pettitte already spoke on record about his involvement with this mess, but we won’t know exactly what he said until later today.
If the rumors are true and Pettitte sides with Brian McNamee’s statements, Clemens will suffer more public humiliation than any baseball player has endured during this investigation, including finger-wagging Rafael Palmerio and question-dodging Mark McGwire.
Clemens, the best pitcher of his era, will have a lot of explaining to do, and it might be fun to see him squirm a little bit.
However, since Clemens has burned bridges in just about every place he’s pitched (especially Boston), don’t expect to see too many baseball fans on his side, no matter what happens today.
It’s also unclear whether the support of Jose Canseco — the man ESPN.com’s Buster Olney half-jokingly calls “the Bob Woodward of the steroids scandal” — helps or hinders Clemens at this point.
Thankfully, Congress has set aside the time to tackle this.
I know I’ll sleep much better at night, knowing that Congress is attempting to pull the curtain back from baseball’s steroids era.
This is of primary national importance.
Unfortunately, I’m not going to be watching Clemens’ televised testimony.
I’ll be busy doing anything else.
TERRIFYING: I don’t think of myself as a squeamish person.
It takes a lot to shock me, but Sunday night’s episode of Sportscenter did just that.
Florida Panthers’ left winger Richard Zednik caught a skate to the throat in the third period against the Buffalo Sabres.
Teammate Olli Jokinen was knocked into the air, and his skate ended up near Zednik’s neck, just an inch and a half short of his jugular vein.
The subsequent blood loss made the rink look like a frozen horror movie set.
It’s been three days since I saw that clip and I still can’t shake that image from my head.
Thankfully, Zednik has been upgraded to good condition and suffered no brain or nerve damage.
nprevenas@gvnews.com | 547-9747
Today, Roger Clemens is scheduled to appear in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to further discuss the performance-enhancing allegations he has faced since the Mitchell Report surfaced on Dec. 14.
His best buddy, Andy Pettitte already spoke on record about his involvement with this mess, but we won’t know exactly what he said until later today.
If the rumors are true and Pettitte sides with Brian McNamee’s statements, Clemens will suffer more public humiliation than any baseball player has endured during this investigation, including finger-wagging Rafael Palmerio and question-dodging Mark McGwire.
Clemens, the best pitcher of his era, will have a lot of explaining to do, and it might be fun to see him squirm a little bit.
However, since Clemens has burned bridges in just about every place he’s pitched (especially Boston), don’t expect to see too many baseball fans on his side, no matter what happens today.
It’s also unclear whether the support of Jose Canseco — the man ESPN.com’s Buster Olney half-jokingly calls “the Bob Woodward of the steroids scandal” — helps or hinders Clemens at this point.
Thankfully, Congress has set aside the time to tackle this.
I know I’ll sleep much better at night, knowing that Congress is attempting to pull the curtain back from baseball’s steroids era.
This is of primary national importance.
Unfortunately, I’m not going to be watching Clemens’ televised testimony.
I’ll be busy doing anything else.
TERRIFYING: I don’t think of myself as a squeamish person.
It takes a lot to shock me, but Sunday night’s episode of Sportscenter did just that.
Florida Panthers’ left winger Richard Zednik caught a skate to the throat in the third period against the Buffalo Sabres.
Teammate Olli Jokinen was knocked into the air, and his skate ended up near Zednik’s neck, just an inch and a half short of his jugular vein.
The subsequent blood loss made the rink look like a frozen horror movie set.
It’s been three days since I saw that clip and I still can’t shake that image from my head.
Thankfully, Zednik has been upgraded to good condition and suffered no brain or nerve damage.
nprevenas@gvnews.com | 547-9747
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