The Facts:
The NFL will not begin blood-testing its players for human growth hormone at the start of the season as targeted, the league informed team owners.
Reported by NFL.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
As part of their 10-year labor deal completed last month, the league and the NFL Players Association agreed that players would be blood-tested for HGH annually and also would be subject to additional random testing. But according to Post staffer Mark Maske, the two sides first had to agree to testing procedures, and their negotiations on that subject have been at a standstill. The union has expressed reservations about the reliability and safety of the test. The NFL has maintained that the test is both reliable and safe. It is not clear when the impasse between the league and union might be broken for testing to go into effect. HGH is on the NFL’s list of banned performance-enhancing substances but players are not tested for it. The NFL would become the first U.S. professional sports league to blood-test players for HGH with their union’s approval. Minor league baseball players, who are tested, are not represented by a union.
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