NEW YORK (AP) - The NFL's Most Valuable Player has added The Associated Press 2007 Offensive Player of the Year honors to his collection.

New England quarterback Tom Brady easily outdistanced Pats receiver Randy Moss in balloting from a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league. Brady collected 35½ votes to 12½ for Moss.

Pats receiver Wes Welker and Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre were the only other players to receive consideration. They each got one vote.

Brady threw an NFL-record 50 touchdown passes, breaking the

BOSTON (AP) - No. 14 is 0-for-14.

Now, Jim Rice has one chance left to be elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Rice fell short by just 16 votes Tuesday in his 14th year on the ballot - and perhaps his best opportunity for election by the writers. He received 392 votes (72.2 percent), up from 346 (63.5 percent) last year but 16 shy of the 75 percent needed.

The former Boston Red Sox slugger will appear on the writers' ballot for the final time next year, when career steals leader

NEW YORK (AP) - Roger Clemens feels he has the evidence that shows he's innocent of using performance-enhancing drugs.

Yesterday, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner held a news conference where he played a taped phone call he had with the man who accused the pitcher of taking steroids and human growth hormone. Former trainer Brian McNamee was heard to say he'd be willing to go to jail and repeatedly asked Clemens what he wanted him to do. McNamee was cited in the Mitchell Report as stating that he injected the pitcher with steroids and human growth hormone in

HOUSTON (AP) - During the 17 minutes Roger Clemens spoke with friend-turned-accuser Brian McNamee, he kept his emotions in check. He did an even better job during the 17 minutes he listened again to the phone call in a room filled with reporters.

Then it was Clemens' turn to talk. And out came the emotion. In his first news conference since McNamee accused him of using steroids and human growth hormone in the Mitchell Report, Clemens' eyes watered during his opening statement and again during what proved to be his closing remarks. The whole thing lasted about 2½

NEW YORK (AP) - LSU has become The Associated Press national champion in college football following the Tigers' 38-24 rout of Ohio State in the BCS title game.

But Georgia, Southern Cal and Kansas picked up first-place votes following their impressive bowl-game victories.

LSU received 60 of 65 first-place votes, while second-ranked Georgia grabbed three. Number-three Southern Cal claimed one first-place vote, as did seventh-ranked Kansas.

Missouri is fourth, and the Buckeyes fell four spots to fifth after losing to the Tigers in New Orleans Monday night.

HOUSTON (AP) - "What do you want me to do?"

Brian McNamee asked Roger Clemens that question - or variations of it - 21 times during a 17-minute taped conversation.

He never really got an answer.

A recording of last Friday's telephone call between Clemens' former trainer and the seven-time Cy Young Award winner was played at Clemens' long-awaited news conference Monday, the first time he faced a group of reporters since McNamee's accusations were made public in the Mitchell Report on Dec. 13.

Roger Clemens' defense against allegations that he used steroids and HGH continues. The Rocket filed a defamation suit against Brian McNamee, the former trainer who claimed to have injected Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs. The 7-time Cy Young winner filed the suit Sunday in District Court. He listed 15 alleged statements Brian McNamee made to the drug investigator George Mitchell. According to Clemens' petition, McNamee made his allegations to federal authorities after being threatened with criminal prosecution if he didn't implicate Clemens.

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NEW YORK (AP) - In his first interview since the Mitchell Report, Roger Clemens says he might be willing to take a lie-detector test and that he is "shocked" that close friend Andy Pettitte used human growth hormone. The seven-time Cy Young Award winner says he "probably" will retire from baseball. Sounding indignant and defiant on CBS's "60 Minutes," Clemens appeared to set up a confrontation with former personal trainer Brian McNamee in front of Congress. Both are scheduled to testify under oath at a January 16th hearing.

SEATTLE (AP) - The last time No. 4 Washington State started a season 13-0, its schedule included the likes of Puget Sound, Whitman and Deserts Independent. That was the 1935-36 season.

And while critics may lament that the schedule leading to the Cougars' 13-0 start this season hasn't been much tougher, Washington State remains one of only six unbeaten teams in the country after Saturday night's 56-52 win over Washington in its Pac-10 opener.

The Cougars now own wins on the home floors of their two biggest