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Ex-maid lends support to baseball star

Roger Clemens, center, gestures during testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday. PHOTO: AP

The ex-domestic helper of Roger Clemens said the embattled baseball player gave an honest account when testifying at a Congressional hearing into the Mitchell Report on drug use in baseball.

The woman, who declined to be identified, told a US television station that Clemens was not at a party at Jose Canseco's house in 1998.

Clemens' former trainer, Brian McNamee, told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday that the party is where Clemens first spoke to Canseco about human growth hormone.

"Mr Clemens is a good guy. I don't know what's going on," the woman said. "He's a wonderful man. His family and, you know, I cannot believe that he is going through all of this stuff."

The woman said she had been at the party at Canseco's Miami home, but backed Clemens' assertion that he was playing golf.

Members of the committee questioned why Clemens spoke to the former maid before telling them how to contact her.

■ WANG WANTS MORE

AP, ST PETERSBURG, FLORIDA

Taiwanese pitcher Wang Chien-ming became the first player to take the New York Yankees to a Major League Baseball salary arbitration hearing since 2000 on Thursday.

It was the first arbitration case the Yankees faced since the team won its case against Mariano Rivera in 2000.

Wang was eligible for arbitration for the first time and asked for a raise from US$489,500 to US$4.6 million. New York countered at US$4 million in a case heard by arbitrators Stephen Goldberg, Jack Clarke and Christine Knowlton.
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