Steak, steroids, and fat football players  Science, technology,
and life. May 2 2005 1:27 PM  Let Them Eat Steak  The horrors of
"natural" athletic enhancement.  Steroids bad, beef-scarfing
good? Click image to expand. Steroids bad, beef-scarfing good?
Twenty minutes into this morning's hearing  on steroids in
football, the vice chairman of the presiding committee, Rep.
Chris Shays, thanks "Major League Football" for its cooperation.
It's one of those moments that makes you cringe at congressional
regulation of sports. Maybe Shays has never seen a pro football
game. Or maybe he slept through the dozens of references to the
National Football League. Or maybe he's still thinking of Major
League Baseball, whose players and executives testified on this
topic a month ago.  William Saletan William Saletan   Today's
atmosphere is different. The congressmen are much happier with
football's steroid testing program than with baseball's. They're
more vocal about steroid abuse by girls; no doubt they got
complaints abou