MLB beats NFL to HGH testing
Who'd have thought that Major League Baseball, which for years lagged behind in drug testing and lived through a period when the use of performance enhancing drugs was apparently rampant, would actually nudge ahead now of the NFL in that regard?
But Thursday, MLB and its powerful players' association announced in conjunction, and with little fanfare, that baseball will begin testing for HGH in spring training next year.
The NFLPA, which agreed to HGH testing in last summer's CBA extension, continues to drag its heels and make excuses for why it hasn't moved ahead with the program. By the way, word is that some members of congress are just as concerned, perhaps even more so, by the NFLPA's dilatory stance on HGH testing than they are the union's collusion claims against the league.
The NFLPA stall tactics don't seem to be going over very well on The Hill.
