He said, He said

Major League Baseball's version of 'he said, he said' came to Capitol Hill on Thursday when Roger Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, brought their contradictory stories to Congress.

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner met one-on-one with various congressmen in an informal setting, while McNamee met with House lawyers for a sworn deposition.

The steroid controversy involving Clemens took another turn that could damage the star pitcher's claims that he has never taken performance-enhancing drugs on Wednesday.

According to a report by the New York Daily News, McNamee turned over physical evidence to federal investigators that could support the findings in the Mitchell Report.

McNamee's attorneys did not tell the paper the exact nature of the evidence, but the Daily News cited a source close to McNamee as saying investigators are now in possession of vials with traces of steroids and growth hormone, as well as blood-stained syringes and gauze pads that may contain Clemens' DNA.

During a media conference with reporters after McNamee's deposition, Richard Emery, one of McNamee's lawyers, confirmed the former trainer had handed over the evidence, presenting two color photographs of needles, vials of testosterone and other evidence.

Emery claimed his client began saving the needles in 2001 because he had "a gut feeling that he couldn't trust Roger and needed to protect himself."

"If he was going to go under a bus, he was taking Roger Clemens with him," said Earl Ward, another McNamee lawyer.

Clemens, who already gave a closed-door deposition to Congress on Tuesday, was low-key after his individual meetings on Thursday.

"It's a great day, got lot of walking in," Clemens said. "I learned a lot about the bowels of the building I was in and out of. We had some great meetings, and I'm looking forward to Wednesday of next week."

Attorneys Rusty Hardin, Ted Poe and Lanny Breuer did most of the talking for Clemens and questioned McNamee's history and strange behavior.

"In my view, you're about to see the second edition of the Duke (lacrosse) case," Hardin said. "If any of you jumped on the bandwagon about Roger taking steroids, you'll be embarrassed. This man (McNamee) has a total history of lying."

In the Mitchell Report, an investigation into baseball's steroid use led by former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, McNamee claimed he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone at least 16 times between 1998 and 2001.

Clemens has consistently denied taking any performance-enhancing drugs, saying the only thing McNamee ever injected into him was a pain-killer called lidocaine and the Vitamin B-12. He said he never used steroids and disagrees with the use of it, saying that it is just a "quick fix."