02-14-2008, 11:30 AM
Brian McNamee, the "trainer" for Roger Clemens being grilled at today's congressional hearing regarding the use of steroids and HGH, taught at regionally accredited St. John's University:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3153874
Quote:In interviews, McNamee has tried to paint himself as a victim. Last year, he told SI.com that Clemens and Pettitte paid him average "working wage and expenses," but that he had to juggle several other jobs to support his wife and three children, one of whom has diabetes.
"Now some of those jobs are disappearing," he told the Web site.
One of those jobs was teaching at St. John's, his alma mater. He blamed the L.A. Times story.
"His professorship at St. John's University has been suspended," according to SI.com.
St. John's said that was not true. Dominic Scianna, the university's spokesman, told ESPN The Magazine last year that McNamee had a "one-year, full-time appointment" to teach in the sport management program from September 2005 to June 2006. "There was no suspension, no reprimand, none of those things," Scianna said, adding that the contract was up "well before the L.A. Times story. This hadn't even come to light."
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