ESPN
For more than a dozen years, personal trainer Brian McNamee has hung around the edges of big time baseball, a working man content to earn his living in the shadows of stars. On Thursday, it came to light that McNamee, his hand forced by the federal authorities, is a central witness against the game he loved, and admittedly helped corrupt. It was revealed that he told the Mitchell Commission that Roger Clemens, one of the game's greatest pitchers, used steroids. ...
But McNamee wasn't good enough for pro ball. In 1990, he joined the New York Police Department and worked in midtown Manhattan. In a profile of McNamee last year on SI.com, a former colleague on the force described McNamee as an undercover super-cop who made huge numbers of arrests. But he also described an incident that resulted in McNamee getting a 30-day suspension from the force, when a prisoner of his escaped. ...
While trying to expand beyond his Yankees training duties, McNamee began referring to himself as Dr. McNamee in his side gigs. He was featured in InVite's promotional magazine as "Dr. Brian McNamee, Ph.D," used the e-mail address "McNameePHD," and told people he had earned his doctorate at Columbus University in Louisiana. Columbus now operates out of Mississippi, after the state of Louisiana shut it down in 2001 for being a "diploma mill," churning out degrees to people who did little or no academic work.
An all-star loser.
