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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: jeromechickenbone on February 19, 2006, 08:26:42 PM
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Straight jacked from ESPN.COM:
Updated: Feb. 19, 2006, 11:21 PM ET
Report: Williams tests positive for fourth timeESPN.com news services
Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams has violated the NFL's substance abuse policy for a fourth time and is facing a one-year suspension for the positive drug test, Denver television station KDVR reported on Sunday.
Ricky Williams
Running Back
Miami Dolphins
Profile
2005 SEASON STATISTICS
Rush Yds TD Rec Yds TD
168 743 6 17 93 0
The Miami Herald, citing two sources of its own, confirmed the station's report that Williams had failed the test, but neither media outlet would say which substance Williams used.
An NFL spokesman told ESPN that the NFL had no comment on the report.
Williams has tested positive for marijuana three times and served a four-game suspension when he returned to the NFL last season following a one-year retirement.
Dolphins coach Nick Saban told ESPN he was not aware that Williams had tested positive and he was not allowed to comment, citing the confidential nature of the league's substance-abuse policy.
Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene declined to comment when reached by the Herald on Sunday night.
"Because of the confidential nature of the league's substance abuse policy, we can't comment on any aspect of that program," Greene told the newspaper.
Williams was also fined the equivalent of four weeks' salary after his second and third violations of the NFL policy, in December 2003 and the 2004 offseason.
Williams abruptly retired from the NFL in July 2004 and the Dolphins fell apart, losing their first six games and finishing 4-12 -- their worst season since the 1960s.
At the time of his return, Williams was ordered to pay the Dolphins $8.6 million for breaching his contract, although there has been no financial resolution between him and the team. He was scheduled to be paid the league minimum of $540,000 last season, but was docked four games' pay due to his league-mandated suspension and was fined another four games in pay, reducing his take to $285,882.
Williams' base salaries for the two coming seasons are $545,000 and $670,000, the minimum for a player (he entered the league in 1999) of his NFL tenure.
Motivated partly by the need for a paycheck, he accepted Saban's offer to return for the 2005 season. When he reported at the start of training camp, Williams publicly apologized for the impact caused by his retirement and teammates unanimously embraced his return.
The Dolphins finished the 2005 season 9-7, winning their last six games. Williams gained 743 yards and scored six touchdowns.
Williams won the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award, the Walter Camp Award and the Doak Walker Award following his senior season at Texas, in 1998. The New Orleans Saints traded away all their picks in the 1999 NFL draft in order to get him.
In six seasons with New Orleans and Miami, Williams has 7,097 yards on 1,757 carries -- four yards per carry -- and 47 rushing touchdowns. His best season was in 2002 with Miami, when he gained 1,853 yards in 383 carries and ran for 16 TDs.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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what in idiot, right when it seemed he was passed all that marijuana and his career was gettin birghter. He fucks it up
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what a sadass. hes gonna have to likie file for bankruptcy.
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He's a fuckin idiot.
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he should come to the CFL
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legalize pot
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damn thats my nigga, fuck the punk ass substance abuse contract. reminds me of dazed and confused
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Reported by a Denver television station? fuckin hypocrites, i bet they wud smoke an L with ricky if he played in denver.
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dumbass
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He's a fuckin idiot.
There's a bigger idiot out there than Dick Licky Williams. Nick Saban 4 keeping him on the Dolphins. He shoulda shipped him off b4 the season started. But oh no, he just had 2 be stubborn & piss people off like me on purpose >:(
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He should play for the CFL....bomb ass weed and no drug testing policy 8)
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*shakes head in disgust* well atleast ronnie brown will be the feature back. Now if only the phins can get a real QB in the off season where good to go.
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from the info i have gathered, even tho the NFL hasnt said what substance was found it sounds like it wasnt weed he tested positive for.
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i wonder what he tested positive for...maybe some of that yoga medicine? fuckin fag
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i wonder what he tested positive for...maybe some of that yoga medicine? fuckin fag
tell me youre just making a not funny joke
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i wonder what he tested positive for...maybe some of that yoga medicine? fuckin fag
tell me youre just making a not funny joke
im actually serious. he does yoga