Hope everyone found their way through the holiday season unscathed. The Daily Caveat is back in action starting today.

I've got a pile of articles to go through from the last week and several submission from readers (many thanks!) to review.

For starters, let me invite you to check out this report that embattled Yankees Pitcher, Roger Clemens has hired private investigators to aid in disputing recent allegations that he used performance enhancing drugs.

The steroid charges stem from testimony provided in connection with the recent Mitchell Report, which sought to did deep into the potential use and abuse of steroids and other drugs amongst major leaguers.

Can't say I have much faith in Clemens' protestations. In any case he's been dead to me since he left the Red Sox.

-- MDT

Labels: baseball, private investigator, steroids

Or so sobriquets the New York Times. Novitzky is the I.R.S. agent that brought down Barry Bonds, a bust five years in the making, along with a host of others. Not without his critics though. Some (defense counsel leading the charge) say that Novitsky is just as much of a cheater as the athletes and doctors he has helped prosecute.

-- MDT

Labels: BALCO, Barry Bonds, Jeff Novitsky, steroids