Re: Webber's agent spins

["Nissen, David" <DNissen@ventnds1.telstra.com.au>]

Um Shawn, I suspect you havent thought your case(s) through very well.  I 
actually agree with some of the things I think you are trying to say, but I 
have to take exception to some of your arguments.


>  athesist homosexual plays just as good as a baptist transsexual, more
power
>  to them, but Drugs hurt your performance....

    Not always so, even if we restrict the point to non-performace enhancing

drugs.  I had a house mate for a number of years who was a dictionary of 
strange sports trivia, and one of the many trivial lists of facts he kept
was 
a list of sporting feats accomplished under the influence of recreational 
drugs.  The one that stands out in my mind was a major league pitcher who 
threw a no-hitter while on acid.  Alternatively if you are a cricket fan, 
ask yourself why Viv Richards (a damn fine batsman) was nicknamed 
"Smokey".  

However I have frequently heard of Athletes abstaining from sex the night 
before a big event.  Damn it, people paid good money to see Wilt, and he 
admited to having rediculous amounts of sex, I wonder if it is too late to 
get their money back.

>In the end is comes down to this.  Black is Black, White is White, and
>Illegal
>is Illegal.  If NBA players want to smoke dope, the start the DSBA,
>Dope  

OK hows this fit into your world view.  Webber who is BLACK travels to 
Amsterdam during the alstar break, to get over not being selected.  He 
meets a local (WHITE) gentleman who shows him around and he ends up drowning

his sorrows in a half dozen Sundays of a suspicious GREEN colour (legal 
there).  A couple of days later he comes to and flys back to the states, 
feeling much more relaxed an focused.  A week later he is tested for drugs 
and comes up positive to Dope (the tests are generaly considered to be able 
to, at best, detect usage within the last couple of weeks).  

He has done nothing ILLEGAL, however the NBA could take action if it is a 
banned substance.

Of course, ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL and BLACK is not WHITE, so it seems fair for 
the NBA to also punish those who are caught drinking in towns where it is 
banned, or caught speeding (they are role models after all), or who get 
parking tickets !!!   How come you have not suggested these already ?



        - David N.


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