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Fantasy Football Articles - May 2004
Enclosed in this archive is every bit of the action and updates that occurred in May 2004 within the world of fantasy football. You may want to read these articles for research on players in the coming year, or just check to see if we were way off base with our reporting. Whatever the reason, it's all here for your enjoyment.
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according to NFL documents seen by the Post staffers, Williams lawyer, high-profile criminal attorney Gary Ostrow, filed arguments with the league titled "NFL vs. Player #909965J." In it, Ostrow questions the integrity of the leagues drug-testing system.
Williams scored a 15 on the leagues testing scale -- the NFLs lowest positive score and consistent with what an occasional marijuana user would score. Another sample came back at 14 (traces of marijuana at a concentration of 14 nanograms per milliliter of urine).
Under league policy, two samples are taken at test time. If the "A" sample is positive, the player can request that the "B" sample be tested. A second sample need only show that the substance is evident for the first sample to be declared valid.
"Ricky is pretty confident hes going to beat this thing," a source told Lambiet and Schad. "When he took the test, for example, he was dehydrated after exercising. Dehydration sometimes causes people who would be negative to test positive."
The league is expected to announce to Williams its decision at the end of the month.
Lambiet and Schad went on to suggest the sum of $650,000 is consistent with the leagues fining guidelines -- an amount 4/17 of a players annual salary -- for someone who tests positive while in Stage Two of the NFLs intervention program. Williams, who said he is not in an intervention program, first tested positive for marijuana shortly after arriving in Miami from New Orleans in May 2002, sources said.
Because it was his first offense, he was placed in Stage One of the intervention program, which lasts up to 60 days. In Stage Two, a player can be tested as many as 10 times a month.
As determined by a medical director, he also must undergo weekly drug group-therapy sessions and call a special NFL hot line, sometimes hourly, to report his whereabouts.
"He was just weeks away from getting off the intervention program," one of Lambiet and Schad sources said. "Officially, he would have been off intervention on Super Bowl Sunday. He has tested negative more than 100
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