From ESPN Today:
Congress talking about legislating PEDs in all sports
(PEDs: Performance Enhancing Drugs)
“WASHINGTON — Once again, professional sports and their leaders were hauled up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday by lawmakers who say they might try once again to legislate drug-testing policies for U.S. leagues.
Facing a House subcommittee that also held hearings on steroids in 2005, commissioners sat side-by-side with their sport’s union chief: Bud Selig was inches away from Donald Fehr; the NBA’s David Stern was next to Billy Hunter. Then there was the NFL’s Roger Goodell and Gene Upshaw, and the NHL’s Gary Bettman and Paul Kelly, who rounded out the day’s first set of witnesses. “
Notice anyone not represented is this august group….FANS !
I’m sure that the rich players and the even richer owners will get a sympathetic ear from the rich Democrats and the even richer Republicans
It’s akin to asking drug dealers and a drug addicts to draft drug laws. Oh wait, it’s exactly like that.
