Ure mum and dad a the role models!! Why is it every one sayz sports ppl are role models! They get paid to do a job they do it then they can do what they want! We go work every day aswell, but we go home have a few drinks, just leave them alone! Unless the club gives them the drugs thats differnt!

Yeah. If you look up to athletes as your role models for life, you are an idiot and the people around you are also for allowing it. Drugs and alcohol have gone hand in hand with athletes/musicians/actors/etc for so long now. People getting surprised at it every time are beyond comprehension

How often do Nbl players get drug tested? Less than the big leagues I'm guessing?

Honestly, most NBL players probably don't make enough money to afford to buy illicit or performance enhancing drugs so I doubt many would be involved in it...

I just can't get my head around the idea of a test cricketer snorting cocaine, 20/20 player sure.

The NBL definitely does tests. I know of one team being tested after their game a 3 weeks ago

This might explain our season, Clarkes being sold sleeping tablets instead of enhancers!!!

The funniest thing about the AFL issue is how they said they should relax the "no alcohol" rule so players don't get tempted by "drugs". This really makes me lol. Allow them all to drink themselves to a Brendan Fevola like state every weekend, so they don't smoke a spliff quietly at home after a game to wind down... Last time I checked, ALCOHOL IS A DRUG. A drug that kills more people every year than coke, heroin, crack and meth COMBINED x 100.
Must go down as one of the most ludicrious suggestions in the history of Australian sport.

Cory Websters been tested before

One thing I don't understand is testing for marijuana. It's stupid. Doesn't help performance, and it's safer to use than any man made drug on the market for certain medical problems.

As for test cricketers using coke, you would be surprised. They wouldn't be doing it during a game, Shawn Kemp couldn't even make it work for him at end of his career.

Costs of drugs isn't that big. Steriods and that really only work for when you are using though, and even then it isn't great for athletes who have to run, as can cause pain and problems with calves.

Ricey - they are illegal doh

Well no shit Sherlock, but testing for weed is a waste of money and time.

"The funniest thing about the AFL issue is how they said they should relax the "no alcohol" rule"

Funniest thing would be anyone believing AFL players dont drink!!

Sir Ricey,

I feel that people might take you a little more seriously if you had of had even one real moment of basketball success.

As for the issues above, yes it is important. If you read the issues outlined in the paper you would have seen that illegal betting and match fixing is as much of an issue of drugs in sport as the drugs are themselves.

What is being suggested is that players are being compromised by the gamblers who organise players into drugs(amoungst other things) to blackmail them into match fixing.

"One thing I don't understand is testing for marijuana. It's stupid. Doesn't help performance, and it's safer to use than any man made drug on the market for certain medical problems."

Disagree regarding the point cannabis is safer than other medications. It has pretty clear studies linking it with psychotic disorders eg. Schizophrenia and can predispose to numerous other mental health disorders. If I was the club, I would be testing players for Cannabis due to the likely negative impact it has on performance and suspending players or fining them if they test positive as it is likely to negatively affect their workplace performace.

Heard it was Estrogen they were taking.