The NFL turned over documents on Friday about its drug-testing results and policy to the Congressional panel that held last month's hearing on steroids in Major League Baseball.
   
House Government Reform Committee member Henry Waxman and chairman Tom Davis sent a letter to NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue on March 31 asking for information about the league's drug program.
   
The letter asked for the number of drug tests each year, the number of positive results, and which substances are tested for. But it didn't require the league to reveal names of players.
   
"The committee's investigators have started to review these documents. We will withhold comment on the documents until the review is complete," Davis and Waxman said in a statement on Friday.
   
Similar letters were sent on Tuesday by Davis and Waxman to the heads of the NBA, NHL, Major League Soccer and four other sports organizations, setting Tuesday as a deadline for turning over copies of their current and past drug-testing policies, and information about how those were negotiated, the AP said.
   
During the committee's 11-hour hearing on steroids in major league baseball on March 17, several congressmen suggested that government legislation might be needed to oversee drug testing in all U.S. sports.

(Xinhua News Agency April 9, 2005)