The New York Times reports that Roger Clemens will be indicted:

Federal authorities have decided to indict Roger Clemens on charges of making false statements to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, according to two people briefed on the matter.

An announcement is expected shortly.

The indictment comes nearly two and half years after Clemens and his former trainer Brian McNamee testified under oath at a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, directly contradicting each other about whether Clemens had used the banned substances.

I remember talking a lawyer friend of mine when Clemens first went public to deny the charges leveled by McNamee. I asked him if he would let a client do that, and he told me know. As a lawyer, he would be the only one who would talk about it, and he wouldn’t even go public with a denial. If Roger kept his mouth shut, like McGwire did, this would have gone away. Roger just opened himself up to a lot of pain.