Re: Webber's agent spins

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

Speaking for myself, I'm not saying I want to see players smoking pot.  
However, society already has laws against this.  Leave it to the police 
to enforce the laws of the land and the NBA to run basketball games.  I 
can see a case for leagues testing for performance enhancing substances, 
but nothing else.  If you think we can create a society where "role 
models", be they athletes, politicians, actors or musicians will behave 
in ways acceptable to the parents of the children that idolize them, you 
are dreaming.  Best to teach your children to look up to individuals who 
are known to do good work rather than whole classes of people (eg. 
basketball players) just because they are rich and famous.  But I 
digress...

It has been widely reported that the players are willing to accept a ban 
on pot.  Does that mean they are willing to accept random testing?  I'm 
not sure.  In any case there must be some loophole they think they can 
use because too many of them are smoking, by all accounts.  Neither the 
players nor the league have any interest in seeing tests done and half 
the players failing.

Jim

PS Cecil, "My airline pilot could have a tremendous impact."  Indeed.

>From: Shawn Roth <ufpdev!shawnr@uunet.uu.net>
>Subject: Re: Webber's agent spins
>To: celtics@igtc.COM
>Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 07:32:27 -0500 (EDT)
>
>Wow, I don't understand the sentiment on this list.  No drug testing?  
These
>are the people that children look up to every day.  So who on this list
>wouldn't want to know if there child's favorite player is a drug 
addict.  If we
>don't test NBA players, why test train engineers or pilots.  I'm 
already
>positive that we don't test the President, becuase Clinton wouldn't be
>president if we did.  So a double standard here is not acceptable.  
>
>Besides, the NBA players will put it in there new CBA, just because of 
one
>thing.  PUBLIC IMAGE.  So all this arguement is worthless.  If it 
doesn't make
>it into the CBA I will eat my words.
>
>Shawn
>


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