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What's gotten into Rocket?

Clemens tells '60 Minutes': I received injections, but it was lidocaine and B-12 in needle, not steroids

It's true. Roger Clemens admits this Sunday on "60 Minutes" that his trainer, Brian McNamee, gave him injections, as stated in the Mitchell Report released last month.

Clemens, however, insists that they contained the painkiller lidocaine and vitamin B-12, according to excerpts released yesterday by the CBS program.

After weeks of an ongoing media battle between Clemens and McNamee,...

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