Monday, April 28, 2008

Report: Clemens Had 10 Year Affair

According to this morning's Daily News edition, Roger Clemens held a ten year affair with then 15 year-old country singer Mindy McCready. Clemens was 28, married and a father at the time of the alleged affair.

Is this the worst calendar year of all time for an athlete? Rocket's getting into hall of shame territory:

Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two, several sources have told the Daily News.

The revelations could torpedo claims of an unsullied character that are central to the defamation suit Clemens filed Jan. 6 against his former personal trainer Brian McNamee. Vivid details of the affair could surface in several media projects that McCready is involved with - including a documentary that begins filming today in Nashville, a new album and a reality show.

...Contacted by the Daily News Sunday through his lawyer Rusty Hardin, Clemens confirmed a long-term relationship but denied that it was of a sexual nature.

“He flatly denies having had any kind of an inappropriate relationship with her,” Hardin said. “He’s considered her a close family friend. ... He has never had a sexual relationship with her.”

What's the statute of limitations on statutory rape, I wonder.

2 comments:

Mike said...

He's not a Yankee anymore.

Bronx Liaison said...

He never was more than a hired gun to most Yankees fans and was on the Red Sox at the time of the rumored illicit fling anyhow.