Apparently Not
As if to answer a question I posed earlier this week, Congress comes up with a big, fat NO!
Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., a former pitcher who's in the baseball Hall of Fame, said the Senate will hold hearings this fall on legislation that would mandate two-year suspensions for any professional athlete in a team sport who tested positive for steroids.
Ooh, Congress considering mandating how private sports teams should discipline their players. How very small government of them. It's not like there are existing laws against steroid use that could be enforced through courts of law or something governmental like that. Oh wait...
``The hard line is for the good of the kids,'' Bunning said on ``Fox News Sunday.'' ``We don't want children, high school or college players, trying to boost their ability to make it into the major leagues.''
Oh, well, see, now that's different. It's For The ChildrenTM