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| 9th July, 2005 - 4:30 pm | ESPN - Although progress has been made in professional Baseball and Football in terms of battling steroid use on their own accord, Congress is not likely to back off on legislation to prohibit steroid abuse.
"There is certainly movement, but I don't think we are where we need to be yet," said House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis of Virginia, who has sponsored steroid-testing legislation that would subject athletes to two-year bans for a first positive test.
"I suspect at the end of the day, at a minimum, we'll have some standards that the leagues would all have to meet," Davis said. Amid scrutiny from Congress, some of the leagues have tightened their drug testing policies. [READ] |
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