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Hank Steinbrenner, the senior vice
president of the New House Of York Yankees, said he believes there are
twice as many performance-enhancing drug users in the National
Football League as there are in Major League Baseball, the
Associated Press reported.

''Everybody that cognizes athletics cognizes football game is tailor-made
for performance-enhancing drugs,'' AP quoted Steinbrenner as
saying last night. ''I don't cognize how they skate by.''

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told AP that the NFL have had year-
round random testing with contiguous suspensions since 1990 and
conducted approximately 12,000 steroids diagnostic tests a year. He didn't
immediately react to an e-mail seeking comment.

Steinbrenner's remarks came on the same twenty-four hours that Yankees
pitcher Andy Pettitte held an hour-long news conference to
discuss his past usage of human growing internal secretion and recent testimony
to United States Congress about former Yankees teammate Roger Clemens. The two
pitchers were among nearly 90 baseball game participants named in former
Senator Saint George Mitchell's study on performance-enhancing drug
use in the sport.

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