The federal judge presiding over the Roger Clemens perjury case has declared a mistrial. Judge Reggie Walton made his decision after prosecutors exposed the jurors to evidence he ruled inadmissible. The government lawyers' blunder was a mistake Judge Walton said even "first-year law students" would have known to avoid.

He used to be bound for the Hall of Fame, but now seems more likely to go to prison. The seven-time Cy Young Award Winner, Roger Clemens was indicted on six counts by a federal grand jury yesterday, for allegedly lying to Congress, with statements like this, "let me be clear, I have never taken steroids or HGH."

Mark McGwire finally came out and admitted he took steroids while playing Major League Baseball. This comes after years of speculation and on the eve of his debut as the St. Louis Cardinals' hitting coach.

With David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez being outted as steroid users, The Takeaway’s Sports Contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin – who has remained relatively quiet about steroids in baseball – has decided it's time to take a harder line against cheaters.

For more from Ibrahim, read his blog post, Baseball's Cheating Heart.

Big Papi may have had help getting big. The New York Times reported yesterday that the Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz and former Red Sox player Manny Ramirez are on a list of a hundred players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. Joining The Takeaway to talk about the story is Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, The Takeaway’s sports contributor.

For more information, watch the video below.

Major League Baseball is losing an icon. Don Fehr is retiring after 26 years. He's not a second baseman or even a coach. He's the executive director of the Major League Baseball Player's Association and on his watch a lot has happened in the world of baseball. Will he be remembered for helping players gets rich or allowing steroid use to proliferate? The Takeaway's Sports Contributor Jeff Beresford-Howe talks with John Hockenberry about the legacy of Don Fehr.

To see some statistics on changes in baseball during Fehr's career, watch the video below.

A new book charges famed pitcher Roger Clemens with using steroids. So Clemens made the ESPN rounds denying once again that his trainer Brian McNamee ever injected him with steroids. The book, American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime reports extensively on Clemens' use of banned substances and claims he lied under oath to Congress about it. Nathaniel Vinton, one of the book's authors and a journalist for the New York Daily News investigative sports team, joins The Takeaway to talk about his former idol's downfall. The same characteristics that made Clemens successful, Vinton says, ultimately brought him down.

For more on Clemens and steroid use, watch the video below.

Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez shocked the sporting world yesterday when it was reported that he tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance. The result? Immediate suspension for 50 games. Dodgers fans aren't the only ones who are crushed. So are the thousands of members of baseball fantasy leagues. The Dodgers slugger was owned in 100% of fantasy leagues hosted on CBS Sports Web site, and 99% of the leagues hosted on Yahoo (where no player has a 100% ownership number). What's a fantasy leaguer to do? The Takeaway talks to Nando Di Fino, Sports Reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

For more, read Nando Di Fino's Wall Street Journal article How Fantasy Teams Can Cope Without Manny.

It's a bad week for the biggest names in baseball. A-Rod returns to the struggling Yankees -- and while they could use his help on the field, they probably don't welcome all the controversy he brings. Meanwhile, Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games by Major League Baseball for allegedly using hCG, a female fertility drug. Since it's unlikely that Manny's trying to get pregnant, it's hard not to suspect he was using performance enhancing drugs.

The Takeaway talks to Selena Roberts, a columnist for Sports Illustrated Columnist. She broke the original Rodriguez steroids scandal, and she has a new book out called, A-Rod, where she writes that Mr. Rodriguez not only has been using steroids as a New York Yankee, but had been using since high school.