SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University has announced it is extending support for its women's swim team through the 2008-09 season before the sport is dropped and will end its women's water polo program after the upcoming spring season.

SRU president Robert Smith said the decision to stagger the discontinuation of the teams was to allow each team to have a farewell season.

The university is standing by its scholarship commitment to the 13 student athletes participating in the sports. The decision will leave SRUwith 10 women's sports and seven men's sports at the conclusion of the 2009-10 season.

WASHINGTON — It's become a daily routine: A new element of Brian McNamee's "I injected Roger Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone" story emerges — and Clemens' attorneys call the pitcher's former personal trainer a liar.The latest, and quite possibly oddest, twist involves Clemens' wife.McNamee told congressional investigators he injected Debbie Clemens with HGH — at the seven-time Cy Young Award winner's direction — before the couple posed for a 2003 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition photo shoot, a lawyer familiar with his testimony said Friday.The lawyer spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details of Thursday's testimony have not been publicly released. McNamee's statements about Debbie Clemens were first reported by the New York Daily News on its Web site Friday.Rusty Hardin and Lanny Breuer, did not directly address the issue when asked about it.Referring to McNamee, Hardin said: "This guy is a colossal liar, and he has absolutely no shame."

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Curt Schilling's doctor insists the only way the 20-year veteran can pitch again is through surgery on a torn shoulder tendon that resembles strands of pasta.Boston's team physician disagrees. He believes the tendon is damaged, not torn, and rehabilitation gives Schilling the best chance to play this year.A third doctor, Mets medical director David Altchek, agreed that the tendon was torn but said surgery would probably sideline him for the season, Morgan said. Schilling, concerned that the Red Sox would invalidate his $8 million, one-year contract if he chose surgery, then agreed to rehab.The team declined to comment Friday.Schilling was 9-8 with a 3.87 ERA in 24 games last season. In the postseason, he went 3-0 with a 3.00 ERA to help the Red Sox win their second World Series title in four years. He is 216-146 with a 3.46 ERA in his career.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Tim Herron was so frustrated that he changed putters for the first time in seven years at a tournament renowned for having some of the most unpredictable greens on the PGA Tour.Desperation slowly gave way to satisfaction Friday in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am when Herron shot a 3-under 69 at Poppy Hills and emerged with a one-shot lead.Jason Day, the 20-year-old Australian and youngest member of the PGA Tour, had a 70 at Spyglass Hill and was among a half-dozen players at 5-under 139.