So many of you have recently heard that Manny Pacquiao is now willing to do a random drug testing program until 14 days before the fight. The chief executive officer of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said that athletes tested within a 14-day window prior to a big match or a tournament can still cheat and get away if they are into performance enhancing drugs. Travis Tygart is the Chief Executive Officer of USADA. Bob Arum, Manny Pacquiao’s promoter, seems to think the 14 day window isn’t unreasonable. I think many of us would agree that on the surface it doesn’t seem unreasonable. Travis Tygart, sees things differently, saying “That totally misses the point [talking about Pacquiaos 14 day concession]. If you know you arent going to be tested within the last 14 days, you can cheat and get away with it. It is out right to test at any time, 30 days before the fight, 20 days before, the week of, the morning of that provides the deterrent. If you block out a period of time and say we cant test during that period, then an athlete could cheat and get away with it.” Mr Travis Tygart said this in an interview by award-winning veteran sportswriter Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports. Also David Haye bitches out and doesn’t sign to fight Wladimir Klitschko.
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A state senator has toned down a proposal to randomly test Missouri’s high school athletes for steroids because of concerns it would cost too much. Instead, Sen. Matt Bartle outlined a new plan Tuesday to randomly test only a sampling of athletes participating in high school playoffs or postseason competition. The cost would be borne by the fans, in the form of higher postseason admission fees collected by the statewide nonprofit group that oversees sporting events. Bartle presented his proposal to a Missouri Senate committee on the same day that Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig testified to Congress about how it was dealing with steroid use among its professional athletes. Florida, New Jersey and Texas already have passed state laws requiring random drug tests for high school athletes. The Illinois High School Association board on Monday approved random drug testing during postseason play. That policy covers about 95 percent of the state’s high schools. Bartle, R-Lee’s Summit, said Missouri lawmakers and coaches would be naive if they didn’t believe steroids were a problem for high school athletes. Random testing “is critically important for not only the safety of the students, but critically important to protect the integrity of the games,” Bartle told fellow members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he is chairman.
DRUGS IN SCHOOLS Following its recent expose on drug deals in some bars in Metro Manila, Reporter’s Notebook now focuses on the rising cases of drug abuse in schools. The Dangerous Drugs Board revealed that about half a million kids aged fourteen and below were found out to be using illegal drugs. Recently, the government started implementing random drug tests in schools as a response to the problem. Human rights advocates are wary, however, as this procedure may infringe on the rights of the students. Are drug tests the solution or is this just a knee-jerk reaction to the problem of drug use in schools?
DRUGS IN SCHOOLS Following its recent expose on drug deals in some bars in Metro Manila, Reporter’s Notebook now focuses on the rising cases of drug abuse in schools. The Dangerous Drugs Board revealed that about half a million kids aged fourteen and below were found out to be using illegal drugs. Recently, the government started implementing random drug tests in schools as a response to the problem. Human rights advocates are wary, however, as this procedure may infringe on the rights of the students. Are drug tests the solution or is this just a knee-jerk reaction to the problem of drug use in schools?
David Edwards and Muriel Kane Raw Story March 16, 2009 rawstory.com Employers have justified drug tests in the workplace by pointing to such negative effects of drug use as absenteeism and work-related injuries. Now a Florida legislator has proposed that random drug-testing also be applied to those receiving unemployment insurance, justifying it as a way to make state funds go further. Florida State Senator Michael S. Bennett told Fox News host Steve Doocy on Monday that with the unemployment rate in his recession-battered state running between 10% and 11%, he worries that the Unemployment Trust Fund might be exhausted. “I wanted to ensure that people who are qualified for unemployment — that the money would be there when they actually go down and get unemployment and that we werent supporting the people who were not able to go to work,” Bennett explained. “It was nothing against the people who were using the drugs as much as it was to ensure that the people who needed unemployment, it would be there when they got there.” Bill Piper of the Drug Policy Alliance, which is dedicated to ending the “war on drugs,” responded that “to require someone to pass a drug test to get their unemployment insurance after theyve been laid off is pretty cruel — and to require them to pay for the test themselves is even more cruel.” “Its a pretty degrading process,” Piper went on. “You have to urinate in front of another person. You have to tell complete strangers if youre on birth control …
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