JUAN DIXON RUMORS & GOSSIP

Finally some good news for former Maryland star Juan Dixon. After serving a year-long FIBA suspension for failing a drug test, the 2003...

Maryand’s Juan Dixon, who was suspended last year for testing positive with a banned substance, will be eligible to play again at the end of next month. The team he was on when he was suspended, Spain’s Unicaja, might consider taking him back. According to Spanish reports the team will take a look around the world at free agents, but Dixon might be the best one available. We’d...

Juan Dixon, Maryland's leading career scorer, said tonight he hopes to resume his basketball career. Dixon said he may play for a developmental-league team in hopes of returning to the NBA. He made the statement when asked about his career by one of the moderators at an evening in Baltimore to honor Gary Williams, his former coach. Dixon was playing in Spain when he had...

The Nuggets' future seems very much up in the air.

Juan Dixon's name should ring out on all corners, in Baltimore and elsewhere, as the definition of a great college player who simply could not catch on in the NBA. Rail-thin, he was ill-equipped to slash and score, and his shot, so pretty at Maryland, was not quite as good in the Association; he never shot better than 38.2 per cent from three. So when he got cut by the Hawks last...

We've posted a story I wrote today on Juan Dixon, the former NBA player and Maryland's career scoring leader. He tested positive overseas for Nandrolone, an anabolic steroid. He's still in Spain while, according to his wife, the urine sample is to be tested again. "He is kind of in limbo," Robyn Dixon said. "He is still under contract with the team. Until the...

Another record-breaker falls victim to using performance-enhancing drugs.Only this time the player isn't affiliated with baseball. Former Maryland star Juan Dixon, who is the program's all-time points leader (2,269), tested positive for the steroid nandrolone and was indefinitely suspended by the International Basketball Federation. Dixon is currently playing in Europe for the Spanish...

You can't blame Gary for trying. He got Keith Booth. He got Juan Dixon. In his mind, he's likely done all that he could do. But in a city where Bob Wade commands a certain amount of reverence, and the mention of College Park infringes on that allegiance, you'd be hard pressed to find sons and nephews who don't have a relative whispering in their ear about not attending the University of Maryland.

They did their school proud, and now they get to go pro. And like Juan Dixon several years ago, one Maryland alum will still be local.

In a town that produced the famous hard luck turned happy-ending story of Juan Dixon, the football version is now appearing every Saturday in Hughes stadium on the campus of the historically black university in Northeast Baltimore. It's a story of beating insurmountable odds, and going on to greater successes.