A Time to Misremember

I went my entire childhood and a significant amount of my adult life without ever hearing the word “misremember.” Then Roger Clemens testified before Congress about performance-enhancing drugs and tried to diffuse the detrimental testimony of his teammate, Andy Pettitte, regarding the use of human growth hormone. “Andy misremembers,” Clemens said on that day, a phrase so bizarre that the interrogating congressman followed up with: “Excuse me?”

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Bob Latham is a partner at the law firm Jackson Walker, L.L.P., and an International Rugby Board member. A compilation of his best columns titled “Winners & Losers: Rants, Riffs and Reflections on the World of Sports,” is available in the Media Zone.