Canseco says McGwire still lying-challenges polygraph on national TV

• Canseco spoke to ESPN 1000 radio in Chicago on Tuesday.

(CBS/ AP) "Jose Canseco says Mark McGwire is still lying about his use of steroids and his former manager Tony La Russa isn't telling the truth either.

• McGwire admitted Monday that he used steroids for a decade, including when he hit 70 homers in 1998, but
• denied Canseco's claims that he injected himself and McGwire with steroids in bathroom stalls.

"I've defended Mark, I know a lot of good things about him," Canseco told ESPN 1000 radio in Chicago on Tuesday.

• "I can't believe he just called me a a liar. Umm, there's something very strange going on here.

"I even polygraphed that I injected him, and I passed it completely. So I want to challenge him on national TV to a polygraph examination.

• I want to see him call me a liar under a polygraph examination."

In Canseco's 2005 book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big," Canseco claimed he introduced McGwire and other stars to steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. He wrote about injecting himself and McGwire in bathroom stalls, and how

• the effects of the drugs were the reason he hit 462 career home runs.

Canseco and McGwire helped lead the Athletics to a World Series sweep in 1989. "...

• "Mark McGwire Still Lying, Canseco Says," CBSNews.com

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