No American professional sport (and I believe college as well) tests for hGH. Not one. Only sports that are under the umbrella of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) test for HGH, principally because for an accurate and reliable hGH test, blood must be drawn on multiple days, possibly at different times throughout the year.
I read several months ago that a simpler test with equal reliability is in the testing stages, but has yet to be mass-produced. If such a test will be adopted by America's professional sports, remains to be seen, FWIW.
For all intents and purposes HGH is “legal” in pro sports, good luck trying to test for it as it stands right now. When baseball “banned” steroids, you saw some guys shrink, some didn’t. I think some guys just stopped because their bodies were so obvious that they just didn’t want the scrutiny. Heavy HGH use can have some bad side effects, smaller doses can be great.
They all tell the same lame lies too, it’s funny. A-Rod, Manny, all of them, their excuses are a joke to me, they know exactly what they were doing. I love the excuses of Bonds and other guys that it was an accident, they didn’t know what they were being injected with, thought it was a B-12 shot. They’re all the equivalent of the dog ate my homework. Yeah, I’m making 20 Million a year with this body, just shoot me up with any old thing, lol.