Roger Clemens is in some hot water regarding steroid use.

The artist previously known as “Roger Clemens Institute for Sports Medicine” will now be called “Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Institute”.

In its statement, the hospital said the decision to take off Clemens’ name was made “to better reflect its commitment to all sports and athletes” and that “the move reflects the desire to promote the broad range of sports medicine services and programs offered by Memorial Hermann.”

Have you seen during the opening or closing credits of a movie the phrase “Any similarities to real people or events, other than those specifically cited, are unintentional” or something to that effect.

Whenever you read that you should mentally translate it like this “This movie is about someone specific. However, we cannot say that without getting sued, so we say this instead…”

The statements from Memorial Hermann should probably be mentally re-written as:

“We cannot have our sports hospital associated with a steroid-using athlete. However we cannot just say that, because said athlete has given a whole lot of money to us, and is currently suing anyone talking about his possible drug use.  So we will be saying this instead….”

HTH,

-FT