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Over at our sister blog, Primary Source, Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian writes:

After a great deal of hand wringing and political wind-testing a powerful Congressional committee has fired the equivalent of a knockdown pitch at a pitcher who made a living intimidating others. It’s almost insignificant that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Roger Clemens committed perjury during a sworn deposition and testimony before Congress this month.

Odds are the case was headed in that direction anyway.

As anyone with even a remote interest in sport knows, Clemens has repeatedly – and defiantly – claimed that he never used performance-enhancing drugs during his 24-year career. Not once. Ever. Never.

All of which stands in stark contrast to sworn testimony by former personal trainer Brian McNamee, who says he injected Clemens with anabolic steroids and human growth hormone at least 16 times between 1998 and 2001; and statements and affidavits provided by ex-Yankee teammate Andy Pettitte who says Clemens admitted using HGH in 1999 or 2000. In something out of the Theatre of the Absurd we also have issues involving testimony from a former nanny, pictures taken at Jose Canseco’s house; and, we kid you not, discussions involving breast augmentation (wives, not ballplayers).

Read more, including what one high-ranking Justice Department official said about wasting your tax money going after Clemens, over at Primary Source.

As many of you know, in a previous life I was a correspondent for the HBO show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel." During my eight years on the show I did some 60-odd stories, one of the most memorable and meaningful having to do with Surfer’s Healing, a surf camp for autistic children, the subject of a wonderful story by Sandra Hughes and producer Matt Lombardi on the Evening News tonight.

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Armen Keteyan is Chief Investigative Correspondent for CBS News.

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As many of you know, in a previous life I was a correspondent for the HBO show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel." During my eight years on the show I did some 60-odd stories, one of the most memorable and meaningful having to do with Surfer’s Healing, a surf camp for autistic children, the subject of a wonderful story by Sandra Hughes and producer Matt Lombardi on the Evening News tonight...

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Armen Keteyian is the chief investigative correspondent for CBS News.

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They could have been your brother or sister, aunt or uncle. Instead they saw themselves as victims. Ordinary folks who found themselves under extraordinary financial pressure, so desperate they made their way to the Metropolitan Money Store (MMS) in Maryland. Only to be scammed, they said, by the very people who promised to help.

In a suburban Maryland hotel I sat around a banquet table with Karen, David, George, Angel and Maureen and listened to their tales of financial woe. How in their time of need they turned to a fellow African-American from the community, Joy Jackson, and the people at the MMS to solve their credit problems and save their homes from foreclosure, only to see Jackson, they charge, steal their homes and bury them deeper into debt.

You wanted to cry. Some did. I wondered how Jackson could sleep at night knowing full well the number of lives she had ruined. I was looking at five.

Unfortunately, they’re hardly alone...

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CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian covered the NFL for CBS Sports from 1998-2006.

Human nature dictates you develop certain favorites in life. A favorite uncle. Favorite restaurant, car or coach. It’s no different covering the National Football League. After eight years, safe to say, I enjoyed visiting certain cities more than others, spending time with one or two clubs more than the rest. The Denver Broncos were one of those teams.

The characteristic admired more than any other in the NFL is professionalism, and the Broncos carry that across the board. Pat Bowlen is one of best owners in all of sport; Mike Shanahan as smart and committed head coach as there is in pro football; and players like John Elway, Rod Smith and John Lynch set the standard of what it means to be a professional athlete.

Over the years I’ve spent time in the homes of Shanahan, Elway and Lynch, doing interviews, talking sports, narrowing the gap between reporter and friend. During eight years of working the sidelines for CBS Sports and reporting features for The NFL Today, I’ve come to know others in the organization as well. Fine men like Jim Saccomano, the team’s director of public relations, and a staff of assistant coaches and employees unmatched in the league. Good people, smart people, people who care, one and all.

Which is why I can’t stop thinking about the loss of Darrent Williams.

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CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian covered tne NFL for CBS Sports from 1998-2006. We asked him to weigh in on the news yesterday about Terrell Owens. - Ed.

Wednesday night brought me speaking before a men's group at an Armenian church in White Plains, N.Y. Before my remarks, taking full advantage of the setting, I asked those in attendance to bow their heads in prayer.

"I think we all should just thank God that T.O. is all right," I said.

Suffice to say the punch line hit home. As I said that evening, not to make light of what is normally a very serious matter, but the latest chapter in the "As T.O. Turns" soap opera would register a helluva lot higher in my mind had Terrell Owens not long ago exhausted my supply of personal sympathy.

We've all heard of A.D.A. and A.A.D.D. Frankly, I think Owens suffers from A.A.D. — Acute Attention Disorder. To me, he's pathologically incapable of being out of the limelight for more than a just few days before some deep, dark need kicks in and T.O. creates some new drama in his life, planting himself firmly in the eye of yet another media storm. Sucking attention, like oxygen, as a living, breathing life form...

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