Cohon Envisions Drug Policy In Place By 2010
04/06/2009 04:34
Commissioner Mark Cohon says he hopes to have a drug policy in place in the Canadian Football League by the 2010 season.
The league has been in conversation with players' association reps and Cohon envisions a policy established once the current collective bargaining agreement runs out in June of next year.
"We have a first draft of an agreement that, in principle, we all like, but we've agreed that our collective bargaining discussions will start this year," said Cohon, of chief operating officer Michael Copeland's talks with CFLPA reps Stu Laird and Ed Molstad.
"Our CBA ends three days before training camp begins in 2010, so we want this to be part of the new agreement in 2010.
"I think we have a great product on the field ... at the same time we have to be cognizant of what's going on in sports around the world," he said, likely pointing to Major League Baseball's mess. "We have to be a part of that. That's been the discussion with the union. There is a will on their side, there is a will on our side and I think it will be in the new CBA." Cohon suggested that, as far as the league is concerned, a drug policy is a must-have for 2010.
"That's our position and I think that's their position, too," he said, of the union.
SWIVEL HIPS SAYS:
It’s about time that somebody dragged the CFL into the 20th century, don’t you think?