One lawmaker called the NBA's penalties for steroid users ''a joke." Another rated the league's steroid-testing policy ''the weakest" among the major professional sports Congress has examined. But what really rankled NBA commissioner David Stern yesterday was Representative Stephen Lynch calling the league's testing program ''pathetic." (Full article: 563 words)

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