This Just In: Wrestlers Might Use Steroids
Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Tom Davis, R-Va. -- the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee -- have had their share of run-ins lately over the panel's agenda. But they've found one thing to agree on: the committee's ongoing interest in the issue of steroids in professional sports.
This time, ESPN the Magazine reports, the "sport" in question is professional wrestling. Waxman and Davis have written a letter to Vince McMahon, head of World Wrestling Entertainment, demanding that he provide records about the the organization's steroids testing policies.
"WWE has a responsibility to do everything possible to eliminate the use of performance-enhancing drugs -- or the perception of such use -- by its wrestlers," the lawmakers wrote.
What?! Pro wrestlers using steroids? The next thing you're going to tell me is that the matches are fixed. This is just shocking.
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Just wrestelers? Why not look at all sports?
Magnus Sorensen Posted Saturday, July 28, 2007 12:36 AMKadzooks!! Is this for real!?!?! The war wages on, lives being lost, bodies broken. New Orleans is a total disaster area ... economically, socially, and physically, the war on drugs can't stop drug sells among prisoner. So these guys feel it's important to look into steroid use by wrestlers ... or any other athlete for that matter. This is nuts and a waste of my tax money. It's analogous to the press being fixated on Britney, Lindsey, and Paris. Get real and do the job you voted to do.
Jeff Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 8:06 AMSince when is wrestling a "professional" sport. Sure they get paid but everything is fake so is it really a sport at all? It is entertainment, just like movies or concerts and I don't believe the federal government regulates all of Hollywood, Broadway or musicians.
Anonymous Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 8:16 AMPersonally, I don't care if athletes use performance enhancing drugs because you STILL NEED THE BASIC SKILLS of the sport to compete.
And why is it that only when the Senate has a Democrat Majority that they hassle the WWE? They did this back during the 1991-3 group and doing it now! This is a crock and just an excuse to exploit a tragedy for political advertisment. (Heaven forbid if the Democrats learn how to do things a different way)
Fred Ortiz Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 8:52 AMNEWS FLASH Pro Wrestling is not a sport. While I do not condone steroid use, there are other ENTERTAINERS who use steroids, but Congress is not calling them out. I bet Vince does not comply.
Jack Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 9:44 AMSPORT? No way!!! Wrestling isn't a sport, it's soap opera entertainment. I also agree with Jeff. What a waste of time when there are so many much more important things to consider.
SATOS Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 11:31 AM"Sports", OK they are sports entertainers. The reason for the "waste of time" is because so many people have died to make a "few" millionares and billionares and it's not the entertainers. WWE is a publicly traded corporation with more than $400 million in revenues in its most recent fiscal year. And here's a quote from Phil Mushnick at the NY Post "Lowell Weicker, a former governor and senator from Connecticut, where the WWE is headquartered, is a major WWE stockholder and sits on its board of directors. Weicker also serves as president of the board of Trust for America's Health, a health policy research group. Hmmm." Unfortunately the deaths are real.
JMK Posted Sunday, September 2, 2007 8:04 PM