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Brad Buckman gets two-year suspension

Buckman gets two-year suspension after drug test
By Mark Rosner | Thursday, October 26, 2006, 05:43 PM

Brad Buckman, the former Longhorn basketball forward who had planned to play professionally in Greece this season, has received a two-year suspension after testing positive for Adderall, an amphetamine in medication he takes for attention deficit disorder.

Keith Glass, Buckman's New Jersey-based agent, said he does not know yet if the suspension prevents Buckman from playing elsewhere in Europe. Buckman, who is due back in the United States today, had signed a one-year contract for more than $100,000 with Olimpia Larissa in the top Greek league.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/longhorns/entries/2006/10/26/buckman_ gets_twoyear_suspension_after_drug_test.html

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For Adderall?
That's harsh.  Have American sports leagues banned it too?

by whoopspat on Oct 27, 2006 12:38 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

From Sports Radio
I don't know if this is correct, but I heard it on sports radio. The drug isn't necessarily banned. He only got suspended because he failed to disclose it prior to the test.

From what I understand the test would have been fine if he had informed the league that he was taking Adderall for ADHD.

The penalty sound way too harsh but it also sounds like this whole mess could have been easily avoided.

--AW--

by awiggo on Oct 27, 2006 12:45 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Greece sucks anyway...
Europe's obsession with "doping" is becoming comical.  Buckman should be playing real basketball anyway, not the euro handball version.  There is no "inside game" in eurobasketball anyway.  Waste of time...

by kicker on Oct 27, 2006 1:12 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

2 years for having ADD??!!
That is amazingly harsh!  And the original MLB plan had a WARNING for the first steroid use!  That is unbelievable.

by SwimTexas on Oct 28, 2006 5:00 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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