Pettitte, Knoblauch and Radomski won't testify at hearing

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Embattled baseball star Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee, his former trainer who accuses him of being a dope cheat, will share the spotlight with fewer witnesses in a Congressional hearing Wednesday.

Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch, former New York Yankees teammates of Clemens, and Kirk Radomski, sentenced to six months of probation for dealing steroids and human growth hormone, will not testify as originally planned.

House of Representatives Oversight Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking minority member Tom Davis issued a statement Monday night saying the three would not appear at the committee's hearing into baseball doping.

"Mr. Knoblauch and Mr. Pettitte answered all the committee's questions and their testimony at the hearing...