Public interest to the steroid case of Roger Clemens was renewed after the death of the reporter Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace, a brilliant investigative reporter, who was one of the original correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This journalist made fascinating interviews with world celebrated individuals. The latest stories were linked with the baseball star Roger Clemens and accusations related to administration of anabolic steroids and HGH by this person. Mike Wallace’s last appearance on TV was linked with this case.
The interview with Roger Clemens about steroids was presented in January, 2008. Rusty Hardin, the defense attorney for Roger Clemens, arranged the appearing of this baseball star in the Show 60 Minutes. Roger Clemens had to defense himself against accusations of Brian McNamee, his former personal coach. This coach accused Roger Clemens in intake of anabolic steroids and HGH. He collaborated with investigators of Mitchell Report, when they investigated the extent of steroid use in the Major League Baseball.
Wallace didn’t enforce Clemens to tell that he applied steroids. He just convinced him to prove to others that he had administered neither steroids, nor HGH. Roger Clemens stated that he would pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had used steroids.
The interview of Clemens was a calamitous public relations maneuver for Rusty Hardin. It was not a perceptive interview. But it renewed the interest after death of Wallace.
In fact, Wallace presented much more significant interviews during his career. The steroid interview with Roger Clemens was not the most interesting. Why did it draw each person’s attention?
Other interviews of Wallace are quite interesting. Wallace made an interview with the lawyer of the president Richard Nixon and the assistant to the president for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman during the Watergate scandal. Wallace determined the Watergate scandal as “perjury”. He named such methods of Richard Nixon, as thefts, spying, obstruction of justice, etc. The scandal led to resignation of the president.
Wallace arranged also an interview with the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The reporter named him a “lunatic”. But he was quoting the president Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt.
Another individual that was interviewed by Wallace was the Vice President of Research and Development at a tobacco company. Jeffrey Wigand admitted that executives of the company cheated before the Congress about their knowledge linked with nature of nicotine.
However these interviews were significant, a lot of persons directed their attention to insignificant interview with the former baseball player Roger Clemens. It may be because while lying of Roger Clemens before the Congress can lead to federal struggle against steroids, the war on nicotine will never exist.

Certain athletes from Spain do not understand how Yannick Noah could write such stupid things about steroids in sports

Sportsmen from Spain criticized the French former tennis player, Yannick Noah. This athlete wrote an unbelievable article “La Potion Magique” which was published in the French newspaper “Le Monde”. This former athlete notices in his work that athletes from Spain have some priorities and win competitions because they administrate anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. He claims that Spain has more loyal attitude to intake of steroids than France; that’s why Spanish athletes have more enhanced muscles and are successful in competitions.
Rafael Nadal, a famous a sportsperson from Spain, points out that Yannick Noah wrote completely stupid statements and comments in his work. He is surprised how Noah’s work was allowed to be published in the newspaper. Rafael Nadal, the winner of 10 Grand Slam titles, claims that Yannick Noah doesn’t write such things which are worthy to be published. According to the Spanish sportsperson, statements of the former tennis player from France do not deserve being made public.
David Ferrer, a professional tennis player from Spain, claims that Yannick Noah is an ignorant man. Ferrer doesn’t understand how a man like Noah that was a professional tennis player and knows the way sport works can confirm such things.
Tennis is not the only area of sports in which Spain had success. Spanish basketball players won the 2011 FIBA European Championships. Alberto Contador, a cyclist from Spain, won the 2010 Tour de France and the 2011 Giro d’Italia.
Josep Guardiola, a Spanish football director, says that Yannick Noah has to prove, if he confirms that athletes from Spain take steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs. But if he is not able to prove it, he should close his mouth.
French sportspersons support attitude of Spanish sportspersons to Yannick Noah. They criticize him too. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, a famous French tennis player, David Douillet, the Sports minister of France, and Frederic Moncassin, the director of the cycling Team Type 1 belong also to that people that do not agree with the statements of Noah.