14—The Daily Collegian Thursday, June 11, 1987
Driesell raises controversy with statements on cocaine
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) Former
University of Maryland basketball coach
Lefty Driesell says his remarks that cocaine
can enhance the performance of athletes
have been misinterpreted.
Driesell, who resigned under pressure last
fall following the cocaine-induced death of
Maryland basketball star Len Bias, said he
never intended to imply he knew of any
basketball players who used recreational
drugs to help them perform better, nor to say
that cocaine is good or helpful in the long run
for an athlete.
Driesell said Sunday at a conference on
drugs in sports at the University of Rhode
Island that research he did 30 years ago led
him to believe that cocaine can help athletic
performance. He noted that four of the top
players in Atlantic Coast Conference history
John Lucas of Maryland, David Thompson
of North Carolina State and Walter Davis and
Phil Ford of North Carolina were admitted
drug users
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to use cocaine and use it properly, it can
make you play better. ... I really believe
cocaine can be performance-enhancing,”
Driesell said.
On Tuesday, Driesell told The Baltimore
Sun, “I am violently opposed to the use of
cocaine. It is highly toxic and usually be
comes addictive. That was the conclusion of
my study. But during the study, I was told
that cocaine was a performance enhancer,
that it might help for a night but that it
would do more harm than good in the long
run.
“Why did the NCAA test everybody for
drugs during the recent basketball tourna
ment?” he continued. “I don’t think they
tested to prevent use of cocaine for social
reasons. They did it because it enhances a
player’s performance. That’s the same rea
son they test for drugs at the Olympics.”
Some members of the athletic community
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great, “but they didn’t have to have any drug
to play like they did in their primes. Every
one was torn down by using cocaine.
“You can die. Three great players Bias,
Don Rogers (of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns)
and now that kid at Texas-El Paso (basket
ball player Jeep Jackson) have died in the
last year. ... I can’t believe Lefty could say
it is performance enhancing.”
Nor could Dr. Anthony Daly, major-league
baseball’s medical and drug-testing consul
tant and the medical director of the 1984
Olympic Games.
“That’s unbelievable,” Daly said Tuesday
of Driesell’s comments. “He must have had a
lot of experience with cocaine, because that’s
not what’s medically known.
“The only part (of what he said) that is
correct is that people who take cocaine feel
good about themselves, but only for.a while.
There’s a certain euphoria. But that rapidly
wears off. It lasts about 20 minutes.
“At first, you feel better about yourself.
But you have to take a lot to feel really good,
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and then when you do that, you can’t feel good
about yourself anymore.
“You get a rapid heart rate. It tends to
reduce endurance and your concentration
gets poorer.
“People who take it during games are not
even sure where they’re playing,” Daly said.
“It’s the most addicting drug known to man.
Of every three people who try it, one will
become addicted to it.”
Jack Zane, Maryland’s sports information
director, had no comment yesterday on Drie
sell’s statements. He said Athletic Director
Lew Perkins plans to meet with the former
coach early next week, after Driesell returns
from a convention in Orlando, Fla.
“Mr. Perkins wants to point out they were
Mr. Driesell’s personal comments,” and not)
the opinions of the university, Zane said.
Vice Chancellor A.H. “Bud” Edwards said
Tuesday he wanted a clarification of Drie
sell’s remarks.
“Our reasons are kind of fundamental;
We’re basically interested in the health of the
individual who is taking drugs,” he said. “It’s
a detriment to health, I think that’s clear.”
Driesell said Tuesday he was shocked by
reaction to his comments, and thought most
people Were aware the drug gives false short
term expectations to athletes.
Driesell has advocated drug testing to
discourage drug abuse by athletes and also to
prevent dependency on gamblers who might
use an athlete’s drug use to fix games.
Driesell saw the worst scenario develop on
his own team a year ago when Bias died of
cocaine intoxication two days after being
taken in the first round of the NBA draft by
the Boston Celtics.
Driesell said he would not be surprised if
cocaine use had affected the outcome of
college basketball games.
“That’s not the only reason I’m in favor of
drug testing,” Driesell added. “The FBI
agents I have talked with have said that
people who are into cocaine are sitting ducks,
easy targets for gamblers or other criminals.”
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McEnroe withdraws from tournament
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -
John McEnroe withdrew from a
Wimbledon grass court tuneup tour
nament yesterday, with organizers
saying he was suffering from a leg
injury.
The organizers of the Scottish
Championships also said two other
seeded Americans, Aaron Krickstein
and Zina Garrison, would skip the
tournament.
Garrison is bothered by a leg injury
that forced her to miss the recent
French Open. Her status for Wimble
don, beginning June 22, is doubtful,
organizers said.
Krickstein has decided to skip all
grass court tournaments from his
schedule, the organizers said.
The tournament still has its top
seeds, Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia
in the men’s field and Gabriela Saba
tini of Argentina in the women’s
draw.
Seeded players are to join the tour
nament with quarterfinals today,
when Lendl plays.
Two London-based national news
papers, the Times and the Daily
Mirror, had reported yesterday that
McEnroe was physically “not right
yet” and would skip the Edinburgh
event.
The Times also quoted McEnroe as
saying the pressure building on his
family was “intolerable” and that,
while he accepted the blame for some
of his trouble with tennis officials, “I
just never seem to get a break.”
The Times and the Mirror said
McEnroe had practiced on grass
courts in New York after his first
round elimination from the recent
French Open and decided to skip
Scotland.
“Physically I am not yet right. ...
My legs are still giving me a lot of
trouble,” McEnroe told the Times.
The seventh-ranked American
complained of a leg injury after walk
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