Athletes at Navy failed drug tests

GreatAmerican
Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:21:19 +0000

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Approaching the most important game of yet another successful season, Navy seniors have a chance to graduate having swept rival Army on the football field over a four-year stretch. But it’s everyone else at the Naval Academy who’s learning a thing or two about sweeping right now.

We lifted the rug last week - that finely woven fabric of high standards and lofty expectations - and saw exactly what was underneath. We now know that the academy didn’t take seriously the incriminating steroid admissions of five players, each of whom admitted to taking a banned steroid and none of whom suffered any real punishment…