***Update on Roger Clemens Steroid allegations (2/13)***************

Roger Clemens is being questioned by congress, as is Brian McNamee. More information will be updated as the congressional hearings are watched. (In total disbelief, as America wastes money on this non-sense "Steroid-Gate"

Here's my question? or perhaps an unpopular statement.

Player today have better gloves, better training, Tommy John surgery, Lasik eye surgery, and a litany of other advantages over the players of the past. With the issues currently surrounding the United States, can't politicians find something better to do than fill American Newspapers full of crap that diverts our attention and focus on something that matters.

Roger Clemens is perhaps the greatest pitcher in the history of baseball, he won 9 Cy Yound awards and He didnt even have Lasik Eye Surgery.

Now his reputation is under-fire, Stop the madness America. Make sure Roger Clemens gets his due and gets in to the Hall of Fame when his time comes.

Honestly, Who cares if he used steroids anyway? Do you?

But the ensuing court battles will no doubt keep the war in Iraq, political debates, and the coming economic rescession out of the news. Good job MLB and Congress, keep up the good work. Oh, by the way, George W. Bush owned the Texas Rangers home of the biggest bunch of Steroid users, during the Steroid hayday of Major League Baseball. Pretty Cool, Ain't it.

Rusty Hardin dispatched investigators to Florida to locate a woman who allegedly was sexually assaulted in a hotel pool seven years ago, one of several steps taken by Roger Clemens' attorney to discredit the pitcher's former trainer.

Brian McNamee, the primary source for the steroid allegations about Clemens that appear in the Mitchell Report, was a suspect in the 2001 incident at a St. Petersburg hotel, but was never charged. Hardin's investigators contacted former St. Petersburg police detective Donald Crotty, now an investigator with the Florida State Attorney, and asked if he could help them find the woman, Crotty told the Daily News.

"After the Mitchell Report came out, (investigators) came down and got a copy of the police report," Crotty said. "They asked me if she was still in Florida and I said, 'I have no idea. I haven't had any dealings with her.' But they felt that they were going to locate her and identify her."

Attempts to smear McNamee would backfire, said McNamee's attorney Earl Ward. McNamee worked with and knew Clemens over a significant stretch of time, said Ward, and McNamee knows a lot about Clemens' moral character as well.

"If some of this stuff were to come out, Roger Clemens would look very, very, very bad," Ward said. "Brian knows a lot about Roger's moral character and knows a lot about his .extra-curricular activities. But we plan on taking the high road and we certainly would expect our adversaries to do the same."

Because the woman was the victim of an alleged sexual assault, Florida officials are not allowed under law to identify her. She has not been named in media reports.

"We've never spoken with her," said Joe Householder, Hardin's spokesman.

After Clemens filed a defamation suit against McNamee on Sunday, Hardin pressed reporters to dig deeper into the 2001 incident, hoping to raise doubts about McNamee's claims that Clemens used steroids and human growth hormone.

As the Daily News has previously reported, the woman was given GHB - known as the "date-rape drug" - and was unconscious when officers arrived at the hotel.

"I'm not asking you to conclude whether (McNamee) did or did not commit the offense. That investigation was ultimately closed," Hardin said after Monday's press conference in Houston. "But if you're trying to decide whether McNamee is a truth-teller, wouldn't you at least want to talk with those police officers down there and say, 'In your investigation, did you find him to be a truth-teller?' Because what they have told us is, 'No, he lied to us.' "

Ward said that the attempt to raise questions about the 2001 incident - which former Sen. George Mitchell and his investigators knew about - and locate the woman was a "smear campaign to detract away from the facts."

"It's the information that Brian provided to Mitchell and to federal investigators that they should be focused on, and not trying to damage Brian's reputation," said Ward.

Meanwhile, Ward said his team had not been served papers yet in the civil suit filed by Clemens and that "nothing's been decided" as far as a date for Congress to depose McNamee. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing Feb. 13 in which McNamee, Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch and Kirk Radomski have been asked to testify under oath. Ward had no update on attempts to get immunity for McNamee for that February appearance.

If you believe Brian McNamee, Roger Clemens wasn't the only member of that famous baseball family getting injections of human growth hormone (HGH) in the butt.