POLITICO — Are you ready for some … hearings? The National Football League isn’t.
The league is doing all the blocking and tackling it can to avoid a full-scale congressional investigation and the televised spectacle of star players testifying under oath.
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A key congressman has given the NFL and the players union — the opening of NFL training camps — to resolve the ongoing fight over HGH testing or face hearings. The league and the NFL Players Association agreed two years ago to mandatory HGH tests but no tests have yet taken place.
The congressional interest in HGH resembles the scrutiny of steroid use by Major League Baseball players in recent years, and the NFL has only to look there for a cautionary tale. Mark McGwire’s refusal to answer questions at a famed 2005 hearing on steroid use; a 2008 follow-up hearing led to perjury charges for Roger Clemens. (He was found not guilty last year).
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