Background: Don Cherry is the badly-dressed eminence grise of Canadian
hockey commentators, and a former hockey coach of some repute.
Right now, he is interviewing the hell out of [censored] Pound, and telling
him off about his notorious "one third of NHL players are on drugs."
[censored] says that the one-third number was the result of being pressured to
pick a number in an interview. Note to [censored]: you can _decline to pick
one_.
[censored] says the drug of choice is stimulants, citing "Sudafed, caffeine,
Red Bull...that sort of thing." Huh? He thinks hockey players are hopped
up on soda pop? I guess you don't win the Stanley Cup on bread and water.
Don says that by citing the one third figure, [censored] effectively
encouraged young hockey players to think that drug use was the norm.
On the other hand, [censored] didn't come off as a complete loose cannon. He
says he wants the NHL's drug testing to conform to the WADA code (which
I guess means the drug schedule, ability to test an virtually any time,
and penalties). He spent most of the interview on the defensive, and did
not act like a nut (though Cherry is, and I say this as a fan, a
badly-dressed loudmouth; most people seem low-key beside him).
I am inclined to ask: when will doping opponents get a better spokesman?
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Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos