NFLPA officials said the World Anti-Doping Agency refused to share all the information they requested during a three-hour meeting in Montreal on Aug.24. The union wants data about the athletes who were used to originally set thresholds for positive tests so it can compare that information with a study of its members’ HGH levels.

The union believes football players may have higher HGH levels than other athletes. WADA has not shared the data because it says there is plenty of information about the test already available.

Goodell, meanwhile, is scheduled to meet Friday with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the panel’s minority leader, to discuss HGH testing. Baltimore Ravens union representative Domonique Foxworth and union official Ernie Conwell, a former NFL tight end, are expected to attend the meeting. Travis Tygart, the executive director of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, is also expected to participate in the meeting.

– Michael O’Keeffe, N.Y. Daily News.

Remind me again why they’re testing for HGH. I know it’s cheating, but why is it cheating? Is it because it’s illegal to use HGH without a prescription? Because that’s true; it is. And we know from Ricky Williams that the NFL tests for marijuana. So maybe owners just want to know if the players in which they’re investing tons of money are engaged in illicit drug use, fearing the inevitable effects of that criminal lifestyle. Or something.

Are they testing for HGH because of the longterm health effects it might have on players? That seems like by far the best argument for testing, but if that were the case, man, you’d think the NFLPA would be all about it. NFL players have enough long-term health problems as it is, you’d think their union would want to work to protect them from inflicting more upon themselves.