Gym Shorts
CONGRATULATIONS to the University of Northern Iowa men's basketball team for winning the Best Upset ESPY Award for defeating no. 1 Kansas.
Cedar Valley Athlete magazine also honors the Ed Thomas Family for receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.
An Update
An article in USA Today reports new research shows a mixed picture when it comes to mandatory drug testing for high school students trying out for sports - while testing seems to reduce self-reported drug use in the short term, it has "virtually no effect on teens' plans to use drugs in the future".
A U.S. Department of Education study surveyed students at 36 high schools that got federal grants to do drug testing. Half of the schools had already begun testing for marijuana, amphetamines and other drugs, the other half had not.
"Girls are more likely to say teens use (drinking, drugs) to cope". "One in five high school students abuse prescription drugs".
Daniel Domenech, executive director of the American Assoc. of School Administrators, "...finding suggests that it's not necessarily addressing the real issue, which is that we have to change behaviors... The behavior here should be, 'Whether I'm playing football or not, I shouldn't be using drugs.'"