Spotlight finds top drug-tester

0 Comments | USA TODAY, February, 2008 | by A.J. Perez

Roger Clemens will have his career put on display Wednesday when he testifies before a congressional committee. But it was less than a month ago that another key figure in baseball was put on notice.

Sitting side by side in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Commissioner Bud Selig and players union executive director Don Fehr -- the two most powerful men in baseball -- defended quite possibly the third in Bryan W. Smith.

Smith is the independent administrator of Major League Baseball's drug testing program, and he alone makes the determination whether a player has failed a test after receiving the lab results.

But Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass., turned the spotlight on Smith when he asked Selig and Fehr about the rise in...