DB5
Years ago

Dickel suspended

GUARD Mark Dickel has been suspended from New Zealand's two-match basketball series with Qatar after testing positive for cannabis use.

Dickel was randomly tested after a Tall Blacks' Test with Australia in Napier last month, and his "A" sample has produced a positive result, Basketball New Zealand (BBNZ) said today.

It said while his "B" sample has not yet returned from the testing laboratory, Dickel has admitted the offence and accepted violating the Tall Blacks' team code.

Jokes can start now guys...
Dickel/Tucker and Benny the Bull to start a new franchise perhaps....sponsored by krispy cremes....

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MW
Years ago

He sure made a Dickel of himself (sorry!)

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sween
Years ago

Propose the "high" league. No one plays coaches or officiates before either 3 cones and or blood alcohol greater than 0.05. Apply to all sports and we get "the sociable games."This should be an off shoot of the olympics.
Wonder who would be the worlds best pissed and stoned athlete?

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MW
Years ago

Pissed: John Daly

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Anonymous
Years ago

Doesn't that make it worse for the Boomers? They can't even beat a team on drugs? Maybe cannibis is performance enhancing!

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lockstock
Years ago

Stoned: Rasheed Wallace/Damon Stoudemire

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Anonymous
Years ago

good on Dickel for owning up to it!

Not like those (alleged) dirty cheats Landis, Gatlan and Bailey. Passive smoke, my arse!

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MW
Years ago

No need for the "alledged" for Landis, he is proven!

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DB5
Years ago

good call # 91799
if you are going to do it, own up to it!

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twenty four
Years ago

Chris Andersen anyone?

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John Lawrence
Years ago

Maybe the Boomers should claim the trophy back, citing illegal drug use. Wouldn't be the first time this year that a person / team winning a title has had his/her/ their championship taken away from them for illegal drug use... and would teach them a lesson.

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Anonymous
Years ago

while an illegal substance, i doubt in the game of basketball cannibis would be truly considered (not just classed) as a performance enhancing drug.

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Some Facts
Years ago

Do you think it will make the Boomers feel a sense of satisfaction in winning that way - I don't think so.........
John it would not have helped the performance plus it is not fair to blame the rest of his team.....

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Anonymous
Years ago

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED:
McLain reveals his cocaine addiction: March 16, 1987

Villanova's win over Georgetown in the 1985 NCAA championship game was one of the greatest upsets in the history of sports. That achievement, alas, was forever tainted by the SI cover story published two years later that detailed the cocaine habit of the Wildcats' point guard, Gary McLain.

Among other revelations, McLain, whom SI paid $35,000 to have his story ghost-written for the magazine by Lexington Herald-Leader reporter Jeffrey Marx, said he was wired on coke during Villanova's Final Four victory over Memphis State as well as during its ceremonial visit to the WHITE HOUSE.

Fullstory
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/seth_davis/07/26/moments/index.html

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