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[NFL] Two USC Linebackers Test Positive For Roids

Discussion in 'Football: NFL, College, High School' started by percicles, Apr 3, 2009.

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EddieWasSnubbed said:

My bad. .
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no biggie

#21 pgabriel, Apr 3, 2009

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Hmm, this site won't last through the day. You can't use "NFL" in your web address as it is a trademark.

#22 Oski2005, Apr 3, 2009
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Since no major news source has reported this yet, I think this is purely a rumor.

#23 Microfridge, Apr 3, 2009
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I didn't read the article but isn't using steroids still legal pre-NFL and post-CFB. I mean, not legal, but nobody can do anything about it. I think it was a tackle from Northwestern that the Steelers drafted that took steroids pre-draft because he could, he didn't really hide the fact.

#24 Ziggy, Apr 3, 2009
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Microfridge said:

Since no major news source has reported this yet, I think this is purely a rumor.
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that's fair.

#25 pgabriel, Apr 3, 2009
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pgabriel said:

I like clay matthews, but that's not surprising. he just looks like it

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I'm sure Pete Carroll had no idea.

#26 rimrocker, Apr 3, 2009
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I'm sure Pete Carroll had no idea.
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He probably wasn't on steroids at USC.
http://media.www.kaleo.org/media/st...ackle.Up.For.reasonable.Testing-2797803.shtml
Kids just roid up, improve their performance, while not under anyones jurisdiction. Apparently you tie any recurrence to your bonus and there you go, loophole that everyone can be happy about.

#27 Ziggy, Apr 3, 2009

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http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_y...lug=jc-combinedrugs040309&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Sources: NFL doctor tells players they are clean

The doctor who administers the NFL policy on performance-enhancing drugs told highly regarded USC linebackers Brian Cushing and Clay Matthews Jr. on Friday that neither tested positive for banned substances, including steroids, according to sources close to both players.

Cushing and Matthews were included in previous reports indicating that up to six prominent players had tested positive for performance-enhancing or recreational drugs in tests administered in February at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis. Also named were Boston College defensive tackle B.J. Raji, Illinois cornerback Vontae Davis, Florida wide receiver Percy Harvin and UTEP kicker Jose Martinez. Cushing, Raji, Davis and Harvin all are projected to be first-round picks in the NFL draft later this month.

NFLDraftbible.com reported that Cushing and Matthews tested positive for steroids and the other four for mar1juana. SI.com, meanwhile, also reported that Raji had tested positive for a banned substance.

The sources said Cushing and Matthews both went straight to Dr. John Lombardo to find out about the reports. The sources said the two players were told by Lombardo, who administers the league’s drug policy, that they had nothing to worry about. The sources said Lombardo further explained to the players that if they had tested positive, they already would have received letters indicating as much. The letters reportedly were sent out three weeks ago, and the sources said that neither player received such a letter.

Representatives for Cushing, Matthews and Davis issued statements asserting that their clients hadn’t tested positive. The sources close to Cushing and Matthews had no personal knowledge of whether the other four players named in the report had received letters.

A statement issued by the NFL also indicated that any players who had tested positive should already have been notified, and explained clubs have not been informed of the results of the drug screenings that were done at the combine.

“Neither the 32 clubs nor the league office know the results of drug or steroid tests taken at the 2009 combine,” the statement read. “The independent medical advisors who administer the tests have notified in writing those players and only those players who tested positive at the combine.”

It’s unclear if these reports will have any impact on the draft. If teams find out that any players have tested positive, their draft stock will decline significantly. A player rated in the first round could easily slip to the second round if reports such as these proved to be true.

“Unfortunately, rumors about draft eligible players, including rumors about test results, begin to circulate every year at this time,” the NFL’s statement read. “Many of these rumors are circulated for self-serving reasons and they are terribly unfair to the players and their families.”

Tom Condon, who represents Cushing, was particularly strong in his response to the report.

“There is no truth to the vicious and false rumor regarding Brian Cushing’s drug test at the Combine,” Condon said. “Brian, in fact, has been informed by league representatives that his test result was negative for any banned substances. Furthermore, neither the league office nor Brian’s representatives have been contacted regarding a positive test.”

Mark Humenik, who is one of the agents for Matthews, and Todd France, who represents Davis, also issued statements refuting the reports. Humenik’s company, Athletes First, also represents Raji, but Humenik said he had yet to confirm that Raji hadn’t received a letter – but he believed his client had not. The agents for Harvin and Martinez did not return messages.
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Ziggy said:

He probably wasn't on steroids at USC.
http://media.www.kaleo.org/media/st...ackle.Up.For.reasonable.Testing-2797803.shtml
Kids just roid up, improve their performance, while not under anyones jurisdiction. Apparently you tie any recurrence to your bonus and there you go, loophole that everyone can be happy about.
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Matthews has some MASSIVE tris

#29 thelasik, Apr 4, 2009
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I guess the Patriots must need a linebacker.

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Seems to be if this NFLdraftBible.com is telling the truth the USC boys' agents have powerful friends.

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If this is indeed true, & the Texans are smart enough to pass on Matthews, this is good, as they now probably won't reach / waste a pick on him.

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Suuuure...

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Unintentional Steroid Controversy

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Didn't think Pete Matthews is related to Bruce Matthews, they are cousins. Bruce taught at my old high school and coached a little too. His son is like sophomore and I think if he's not on the roids, he must of started taking protien shakes at the 8th grade.

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Remember Brian Bosworth.

Before this story, if I was to name a player on USC most likely to be on steroids, it would be Taylor Mays, a safety. That guy is almost like superman, almost too good to be true. I've never seen him without helmet and pads, but watching what he does on the field is almost unbelievable.

One of these days he is going to seriously hurt an opposing player.

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Remember Brian Bosworth.

Before this story, if I was to name a player on USC most likely to be on steroids, it would be Taylor Mays, a safety. That guy is almost like superman, almost too good to be true. I've never seen him without helmet and pads, but watching what he does on the field is almost unbelievable.

One of these days he is going to seriously hurt an opposing player.
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I think Mays is just a freak of nature. Of course Bing looked pretty nasty too and where is he now?

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College football dirty secret: USC players are overrated.

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Not all of them

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I think Mays is just a freak of nature. Of course Bing looked pretty nasty too and where is he now?
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Freak of "nature" is one way to describe him, but I think more than nature is involved.

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