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      <title>Weed @ the combine</title>
      <description>well these guys admitted it at least before it got leaked to the press &amp; BTW why do they make a big deal out of this....YET when a player scores low on the wonderlic test or he doesn't do so well @ the combine.....it's not so much a big deal?

Pro Football Weekly report that three top prospects -- Georgia Tech WR Calvin Johnson, Clemson DE Gaines Adams and Louisville DT Amobi Okoye -- have admitted using marijuana strikes me as the kind of thing that has the potential to be overblown. I'm guessing the main difference between the players who tell their prospective employers they have smoked pot and the players who tell their prospective employers they haven't smoked pot is honesty. 
Of course, the NFL tests for marijuana, and players who test positive multiple times can be suspended or even banned (just ask Ricky Williams). So NFL teams have every reason to be cautious about players who admit using drugs. They just shouldn't allow that caution to let them pass up on a potentially great player.
The Pro Football Weekly report says, "Such admissions are viewed indifferently by many teams' decision-makers who do not consider marijuana experimentation to be abnormal." That sounds like the right approach to me.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:09:06 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/232253</link>
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      <title>Georgia Tech Produces Grade A Meat In Drafts</title>
      <description>This may come as a surprise to some but Georgia Tech has become only the sixth school in the past 25 years to produce Top 20 picks in the same year's baseball, football and men's basketball drafts. It's the second time it's happened since 1995, when Florida State had the triple threat. Texas did it in 1982 and again in 2006, Auburn did it in 1988, Minnesota in 1990, and Stanford in 1992. Florida made the list this year as well with the previous drafting of pitcher Matt LaPorta and defensive end Jarvis Moss, and today's NBA drafting of Al Horford, Joakim Noah and Corey Brewer</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:49:27 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/18217</link>
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