GRAMA in sports
ELDORADO, Texas — Covering the story of the FLDS raid here in West Texas has kept me busy, but I'm still keeping up on the important news elsewhere.
The Chicago Cubs bullpen is losing leads and games. Big Brown is this year's star of the horse racing triple crown watch and LSU needs to recruit another quarterback. Hey, what can I say. I may be a news guy, but sports is my kinky mistress.
I have extra reason to notice the LSU story, where quarterback Ryan Perrilloux was punted after he allegedly failed a drug test. College drug testing was the subject of a big Tribune investigation published in November utilizing record requests sent to 122 schools.
LSU was among the respondents and you can read about its testing program from 2004 to 2007. For reporters, the benefits of having historical records like the LSU documents is having a guide for today. And as I read reports from the various news outlets in Louisiana on Saturday afternoon, I had several questions.
So, if I were reporting on the LSU quarterback story, here are a list of questions I would pose. Feel free to tell me what I've omitted.
-- How many tests did Perrilloux fail? LSU's policy -- which is similar to the policies at most athletic departments -- does not mandate suspensions until the second positive test. The third positive test can earn you a one-year ban. A fourth positive is not even discussed. If the NCAA arrived on campus for a random test and Perrilloux failed that, he still would only be facing a one-year ban. So what happened
with Perrilloux that a positive test earned him a permanent benching?
-- Who else recently failed a test and what happened to them? Supposedly there had been some previous discipline problems with Perrilloux, and that might have contributed to his dismissal. But if he was booted for testing positive for drugs and another football player with similar circumstances failed a test and was allowed to
remain, you have some justice issues.
-- Was Perrilloux given a test at random or was he tested for cause? And if they tested him for cause -- meaning the coaching staff suspected something -- what did Perrilloux do to draw suspicion?
-- For what substance(s) did Perrilloux test positive? This only matters if the substance factored into his dismissal. Some schools draw distinctions between recreational drugs and performance enhancers. For that matter, LSU's policy says a positive test can be assessed if Perrilloux took some prescription or over-the-counter
drugs but did not tell the athletic department.
— NC
The Chicago Cubs bullpen is losing leads and games. Big Brown is this year's star of the horse racing triple crown watch and LSU needs to recruit another quarterback. Hey, what can I say. I may be a news guy, but sports is my kinky mistress.
I have extra reason to notice the LSU story, where quarterback Ryan Perrilloux was punted after he allegedly failed a drug test. College drug testing was the subject of a big Tribune investigation published in November utilizing record requests sent to 122 schools.
LSU was among the respondents and you can read about its testing program from 2004 to 2007. For reporters, the benefits of having historical records like the LSU documents is having a guide for today. And as I read reports from the various news outlets in Louisiana on Saturday afternoon, I had several questions.
So, if I were reporting on the LSU quarterback story, here are a list of questions I would pose. Feel free to tell me what I've omitted.
-- How many tests did Perrilloux fail? LSU's policy -- which is similar to the policies at most athletic departments -- does not mandate suspensions until the second positive test. The third positive test can earn you a one-year ban. A fourth positive is not even discussed. If the NCAA arrived on campus for a random test and Perrilloux failed that, he still would only be facing a one-year ban. So what happened
with Perrilloux that a positive test earned him a permanent benching?
-- Who else recently failed a test and what happened to them? Supposedly there had been some previous discipline problems with Perrilloux, and that might have contributed to his dismissal. But if he was booted for testing positive for drugs and another football player with similar circumstances failed a test and was allowed to
remain, you have some justice issues.
-- Was Perrilloux given a test at random or was he tested for cause? And if they tested him for cause -- meaning the coaching staff suspected something -- what did Perrilloux do to draw suspicion?
-- For what substance(s) did Perrilloux test positive? This only matters if the substance factored into his dismissal. Some schools draw distinctions between recreational drugs and performance enhancers. For that matter, LSU's policy says a positive test can be assessed if Perrilloux took some prescription or over-the-counter
drugs but did not tell the athletic department.
— NC
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