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Keeler: NCAA drug testing is serious business | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

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Mammone   Jun 13th 2008, 5:13pm
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How serious is the NCAA about drug testing? They’ll follow you on dates. Dates! Dinner, movie and a beaker. Table for three until you finish your, um, business. No exceptions.

 

 

“So this guy,” recalls Leo Manzano of Texas, the nation’s leading college miler and one of the star attractions of the NCAA Track and Field Championships at Drake, “he can only come randomly, where he can find me, whether it’s at the track or at my house. And he found me at my house.”
This was about six weeks ago, give or take. Which would have been fine and all, if not for one little logistical problem.
“The girl that I’m kind of dating is coming over to my house,” Manzano explains. “And she’s on her way already.”
Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide.
Besides, every athlete knows that “if they don’t show up,” says Mark Bockelman of the National Center for Drug Free Sport, the company out of Kansas City, Mo., that handles urine samples for the NCAA, “it’s recorded as a ‘positive’ test.”
Oh, yeah. There’s that.



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