New York, NY (Sports Network) - Convicted steroids supplier Kirk Radomski has given documentary evidence to the government showing that he shipped drugs to the Texas home of Roger Clemens, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

 
Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner, is under investigation by the federal government for perjury. He told Congress earlier this year that he has never taken steroids or human growth hormone.

It was on April 27 this year that Radomski pleaded guilty in U.S. district court to money laundering and illegal distribution of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, amphetamines and other drugs to several players. He faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. He was sentenced to five years probation after cooperating with the feds and the Mitchell Report.

The Daily News reports that sources with close knowledge of the investigation, indicated Radmomski discovered shipping receipts for a package of two kits of HGH that he sent in late 2002 or 2003 to Clemens in Houston. The report says that Radomski is believed to have also provided the government with new information and receipts for other shipments of drugs to other players.

The report says Clemens' package was address to William Roger Clemens in care of Brian McNamee. Sources told the newspaper that the timing of the shipments coincide roughly with the dates Clemens' wife, Debbie, used HGH to prepare herself for a photo shoot for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

Clemens has also denied to Congress knowledge that his wife was going to use HGH.

McNamee, Clemens' former trainer, testified before Congress earlier this year In the Mitchell Report, an investigation into baseball's steroid use led by former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, McNamee claimed he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone at least 16 times between 1998 and 2001.

Clemens has consistently denied taking any performance-enhancing drugs, saying the only thing McNamee ever injected into him was a pain-killer called lidocaine and the Vitamin B-12.

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Colorado Springs, CO (Sports Network) - The United States Anti-Doping Agency announced a lifetime ban on Tuesday for track coach Trevor Graham.

The ban prohibits Graham from coaching or participating in any capacity in any competition or activity authorized or organized by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), USA Track & Field (USATF), the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and/or any group that takes part in the World Anti-Doping Code.

On May 29, Graham was convicted of one count of lying to federal investigators for his participation in the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO) scandal from June 2003.

USADA originally charged Graham with violating anti-doping rules prohibiting possession, trafficking, and administration of performance- enhancing drugs, and assisting, encouraging, aiding and abetting anti-doping rule violations.

Graham is the second coach against whom USADA has imposed a lifetime ban for an involvement in helping athletes use drugs.

He's been connected to some major track names, including Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin and Tim Montgomery.

"While drug use by athletes is a serious wrong to be addressed with stiff penalties, involvement in doping by a coach is even more reprehensible and must be dealt with through the most severe of all sanctions," USADA CEO Travis Tygart said in a statement. "It is truly disgraceful when a coach uses his position to assist athletes under his care in doping."

Montgomery had his world record revoked after he admitted accepting steroids and other performance enhancing drugs from BALCO. Jones won five medals at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, but later admitted to having taken steroids prior to those Olympics. SHe was stripped of every medal dating back to September 2000, accepted a two-year suspension from track and field, and subsequently announced her retirement from the sport. Gatlin is serving a four-year ban for testing positive for a banned substance.

"USA Track & Field applauds USADA for issuing a lifetime ban against Trevor Graham," USA Track & Field president/acting CEO Bill Roe said in a statement.

"Through his involvement in fostering the use of performance-enhancing drugs, Mr. Graham jeopardized the health of his athletes, to say nothing of their integrity and their future ability to compete in the sport. Athletes rarely act alone when they make the ill-advised decision to dope, and anyone involved in advocating or enabling the use of PEDs should be punished just as severely as an athlete who uses them."

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This is the second time Bonds has pleaded not guilty to such charges. Following his plea in December a judge asked prosecutors to rewrite the indictment to fix some legal infirmities with the document.

The most recent document includes 15 felony counts of lying under oath, the same as in December.

Bonds will appear in a status conference later Friday, where a trial date could be set.

The slugger is not currently playing in the Majors. He has not declared his retirement, however has not been picked up by a team.

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