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While the nationally televised testimony of Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee made for great theater Wednesday, far more compelling and equally entertaining are the witness depositions that can be found online. . . .
Debbie Clemens can’t be happy about the revelations. . . .
Reader Mike Casey notes that Roger Clemens is a seven-time Cy Young Award winner, Barry Bonds is a seven-time MVP and perjury is a seven-letter word. . . .
Grammy trip standings 2008: Lakers 7-2, Kings 4-3-1, Clippers 3-4. . . .
Clippers finish last again. . . .
They’re as predictable as the recording academy snubbing Kanye West for album of the year. . . .
The Lakers, 17-18 the last five seasons when vacating Staples Center in favor of Beyonce & Co., had not posted a winning record on a Grammy trip since 2004, when Shaquille O’Neal, Karl Malone and Gary Payton were still on the roster and they won four of seven on an Eastern swing. . . .
The Kings are 8-9-7 on Grammy trips since 2003, the last time the gold-plated gramophones were not handed out at Staples Center. . . .
The Clippers are 13-23. . . .
Stu Lantz wondered aloud during a recent Lakers telecast if the high school team led by Dwight Howard and ex-Lakers guard Javaris Crittenton ever lost. . . .
The answer is yes. . . .
Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy lost twice en route to winning a Georgia state title in 2004, when Howard was a senior and Crittenton a sophomore, and was defeated by Whitefield Academy in the championship game a year earlier. . . .
Whitefield, by the way, was led by Tim Morris, in the news this week for throwing a pass off the face of UCLA’s Alfred Aboya on Sunday at Washington. . . .
Washington’s Quincy Pondexter, last seen celebrating atop the scorer’s table after Sunday’s victory over UCLA, is a son of Roscoe Pondexter, who played for Jerry Tarkanian and Lute Olson at Long Beach State. . . .
Roscoe Pondexter and younger brother Clifton, a first-round NBA draft pick, were part of what Olson later called “the most talented team I ever worked with,†helping Long Beach State to a 24-2 record in the 1973-74 season. . . .
Rules infractions committed under Tarkanian’s watch landed the 49ers on probation, however, and kept them out of the NCAA tournament. . . .
Craig Robinson of Brown, last season’s Ivy League coach of the year and a two-time Ivy League player of the year at Princeton, is the brother-in-law of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. . . .
His younger sister, Michelle, married Obama in 1992. . . .
Speaking of successful women, UCLA will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its 1978 Assn. of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women basketball championship Sunday at halftime of the USC-UCLA women’s game at Pauley Pavilion. . . .
Expected to be in attendance are former coach Billie Moore and ex-stars Ann Meyers Drysdale and Denise Curry, who helped draw a then-record 9,351 to Pauley Pavilion for the championship-game victory over Maryland. . . .
All three women were later enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame at Springfield, Mass. . . .
Dale Earnhardt Jr., gearing up for Sunday’s Daytona 500, is riding a 62-race winless streak but trails only Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning as a product pitchman, according to various reports. . . .
ESPN’s NFL draft analyst, Mel Kiper Jr., lists USC’s John David Booty as this year’s No. 5 quarterback prospect behind Matt Ryan of Boston College, Brian Brohm of Louisville, Joe Flacco of Delaware and Chad Henne of Michigan. . . .
Kiper ranks USC’s Chilo Rachal, Fred Davis and Keith Rivers as the top offensive guard, tight end and outside linebacker in the draft. . . .
Steve Clarkson, the Pasadena-based quarterbacks guru whose clients have included Ben Roethlisberger and Matt Leinart, is tutoring Nate and Nicholas Montana of Northern California’s Concord De La Salle High. . . .
Their father is Joe Montana. . . .
Nate, a senior and a third-stringer at De La Salle last season, will be a walk-on this fall at Notre Dame, his father’s alma mater. . . .
Nicholas, about two inches shorter and 15 pounds lighter than his older brother at 6 feet 3 and 200 pounds, will be a junior at De La Salle, where he hopes to emerge as a starter for the high school powerhouse. . . .
The brothers’ two older sisters go to Notre Dame. . . .
But Clarkson says of Nicholas, “He’s quite a USC fan.â€
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