Posted on 11/18/2006 1:54:32 PM PST by smonk
Naval Academy acknowledges delay in steroids tests
BALTIMORE -- U.S. Naval Academy officials waited more than two months to give urine tests to five football players who acknowledged early last year that they had used steroids, a disclosure prompting lawmakers to call for a congressional probe into the matter, The Sun reported Saturday.
Experts told the newspaper that the delay acknowledged Friday by academy officials would have allowed any trace of the banned drugs to disappear.
"I think it's very important that we know who made the decision to test these young folks two months after we had good cause for suspecting illegal drug use," Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. told the newspaper. Cummings is on the academy's Board of Visitors, a civilian oversight panel.
"I want to know who made the decision, why that decision was made, and I think that whatever answer that is provided should be one that every single member of the board should be very much interested in knowing."
Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., also called for a probe of the academy's handling of steroid use.
"The Naval Academy and its students occupy a unique place as American role models, and as such they must adhere to the highest possible standards," Waxman said.
Vice Adm. Rodney P. Rempt, the academy superintendent, and Col. David Fuquea, who handled internal disciplinary proceedings for the players and is now the assistant athletic director, declined to comment through a spokesman. The players also declined to comment.
What will Sen. James Webb have to say on this, I wonder.
it doesn't involve pornography or treating women like trash. so he probably won't have anything at all to say about it.
Henry starts his task to save the World
Here we go again!
Naval Academy acknowledges delay in steroids tests[then you can add to the title or whatever, dont go CBS on us]
And why does the Naval Academy even have to have a football team? A tradition and all that, but I'd like to think that the midshipmen time there could be more profitably employed in receiving better instruction and training. I'd rather have them trained in looking for the chinese subs near the Kitty Hawk group than as a football team.
Someone should make Waxman pee in a cup.
My thoughts are pretty much along the same lines as yours. Our side should not expect to be judged by the same grace the Democrats extended to Clinton on every issue. Nor should we...
Waxman is unfit to serve in Congress and is a telling indictment of those who helped to place and keep him there.
athletics are actually required at the service academies. physical fitness, & etc., and it leads to a well rounded officer.
Straight out of the dem playbook...
Go after the insignifant so that the mighty tremble at their feet.
And watch the political contributions increase manifold times.
Didn't hurt Rogar Staubach.
Maybe because it's good for morale. Also, I think midshipmen can handle all their duties AND football.
Guess Henry had a bundle bet the wrong way in Vegas eh!?
Read "A Sense of Honor" and then we'll talk. I'd like to know what happened to Webb between the time he wrote it and now.
All of Congress should pee in a cup. The results should be very interesting. That they have exempted themselves from the random drug testing--that the rest of us peons are subjected to prior to employment in the private sector--is very telling.
What would be the point of testing them for steriod use at the time they ADMITTED taking them? To confirm their admission was true?
Makes perfect sense to test them two months later to make sure they aren't still using them. Hello! Waxman is a stupid oaf.
There's athletics and then there are semiprofessional sports. The latter, IMHO, is grossly overdoing athletics in regard to the time and effort required and [in the service academies in particular, and in the colleges and universities in general] a capital waste of time.
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