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"A Pipeline Full of Drugs" - Sports Illustrated Jan 21, 1985 / Clemson University
Posted on 12/24/18 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 12/24/18 at 6:19 pm
"A Pipeline Full of Drugs"
"A Pipeline Full of Drugs" was featured in the January 21, 1985 issue of Sports Illustrated.[1] The article begins with an account of the death of 23-year-old world-class track athlete, Augustinius Jaspers, in his dorm room at Clemson University, and the subsequent discovery by investigating police of unlabeled prescription drugs in his belongings. The story continues to describe the resignation of two Clemson coaches implicated in illegal distribution of such drugs, Stan Narewski, men's track and cross-country coach, and Sam Colson, women's track and cross-country coach and strength and conditioning coach, and their admission of supplying the drugs to student-athletes.
Reaction
The month before the article ran in Sports Illustrated, an investigation by South Carolina's 13th Circuit Solicitor William Traxler was announced and South Carolina's State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents began interviewing Clemson student-athletes and their coaches. Based on the results of a two-month investigation, on March 4, 1985, a Pickens County grand jury indicted former track coaches Sam Colson and Stan Narewski and former assistant football coach Jack Harkness (the three had resigned in the wake of the scandal) on charges of illegally dispensing prescription drugs.[2] During the investigation, both Colson and Narewski admitted to supplying the drugs to members of the track teams, and three football players stated that they had been given steroids by Colson, who was also the school's strength and conditioning coach.[3]
Outcome
Following the indictments, Colson and Narewski entered into plea-bargain agreements.[4] On March 11, 1985, Circuit Judge C. Victor Pyle placed Colson on three years probation, ordered him to perform eight hours of community service a week for one year, and fined him $2,000. Narewski was sentenced to one year of probation, a $750 fine and ordered to perform eight hours of community service each week for six months.[5] Due largely to dissatisfaction with the Clemson Board of Trustees refusal to support his push for reorganization of the school's athletic department in the wake of back-to-back scandals or his call for the resignation of long-time athletic director Bill McLellan; the university's president, William Atchley, stepped down on March 1, 1985, stating at the time, "There's no doubt about athletics being a political issue."[6][7] Following a leave of absence,[8] McLellan was replaced as athletic director by head golf coach, Bobby Robinson, on March 8, 1985.[9] In reference to this period of turmoil surrounding Clemson athletics, Atchley would later state, "I think we were very sloppy. I think we did things very carelessly without thinking what they meant."[10] On April 27, 1985, the head of Clemson University's public safety department, James C. Brummitt, resigned amid questions of why there was a delay of a month before details of the investigation were revealed to the school's president.[11] The scandal came to a close on January 6, 1986, when Jack Harkness, pleaded guilty to charges of distributing steroids to athletes, and was given two suspended 18-month sentences, fined $1,000 and ordered to reimburse SLED for $1,000 for the agency's cost to extradite him back to South Carolina from Pittsburgh, PA.[12]
In 1989, former Clemson track star Dave McKnight testified during the Dubin Inquiry that he and another Canadian, Desai Williams, took anabolic steroids while on scholarship at the school in 1979, and that the drugs were provided to them by their coach, Peter Cross, and that the program of doping was the idea of Sam Colson.[13]
"A Pipeline Full of Drugs" was featured in the January 21, 1985 issue of Sports Illustrated.[1] The article begins with an account of the death of 23-year-old world-class track athlete, Augustinius Jaspers, in his dorm room at Clemson University, and the subsequent discovery by investigating police of unlabeled prescription drugs in his belongings. The story continues to describe the resignation of two Clemson coaches implicated in illegal distribution of such drugs, Stan Narewski, men's track and cross-country coach, and Sam Colson, women's track and cross-country coach and strength and conditioning coach, and their admission of supplying the drugs to student-athletes.
Reaction
The month before the article ran in Sports Illustrated, an investigation by South Carolina's 13th Circuit Solicitor William Traxler was announced and South Carolina's State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents began interviewing Clemson student-athletes and their coaches. Based on the results of a two-month investigation, on March 4, 1985, a Pickens County grand jury indicted former track coaches Sam Colson and Stan Narewski and former assistant football coach Jack Harkness (the three had resigned in the wake of the scandal) on charges of illegally dispensing prescription drugs.[2] During the investigation, both Colson and Narewski admitted to supplying the drugs to members of the track teams, and three football players stated that they had been given steroids by Colson, who was also the school's strength and conditioning coach.[3]
Outcome
Following the indictments, Colson and Narewski entered into plea-bargain agreements.[4] On March 11, 1985, Circuit Judge C. Victor Pyle placed Colson on three years probation, ordered him to perform eight hours of community service a week for one year, and fined him $2,000. Narewski was sentenced to one year of probation, a $750 fine and ordered to perform eight hours of community service each week for six months.[5] Due largely to dissatisfaction with the Clemson Board of Trustees refusal to support his push for reorganization of the school's athletic department in the wake of back-to-back scandals or his call for the resignation of long-time athletic director Bill McLellan; the university's president, William Atchley, stepped down on March 1, 1985, stating at the time, "There's no doubt about athletics being a political issue."[6][7] Following a leave of absence,[8] McLellan was replaced as athletic director by head golf coach, Bobby Robinson, on March 8, 1985.[9] In reference to this period of turmoil surrounding Clemson athletics, Atchley would later state, "I think we were very sloppy. I think we did things very carelessly without thinking what they meant."[10] On April 27, 1985, the head of Clemson University's public safety department, James C. Brummitt, resigned amid questions of why there was a delay of a month before details of the investigation were revealed to the school's president.[11] The scandal came to a close on January 6, 1986, when Jack Harkness, pleaded guilty to charges of distributing steroids to athletes, and was given two suspended 18-month sentences, fined $1,000 and ordered to reimburse SLED for $1,000 for the agency's cost to extradite him back to South Carolina from Pittsburgh, PA.[12]
In 1989, former Clemson track star Dave McKnight testified during the Dubin Inquiry that he and another Canadian, Desai Williams, took anabolic steroids while on scholarship at the school in 1979, and that the drugs were provided to them by their coach, Peter Cross, and that the program of doping was the idea of Sam Colson.[13]
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Posted on 12/24/18 at 6:20 pm to 1801
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A Pipeline Full of Drugs - Sports Illustrated Jan 21, 1885 / Clemson University
Sports Illustrated has been around longer than I thought.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 6:20 pm to 1801
frick Clemson and the ACC
Posted on 12/24/18 at 6:50 pm to 1801
College athletics was down and dirty during the 1980’s.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 6:58 pm to 1801
USC had a big steroid scandal around that same time... Glass houses and all..
Posted on 12/24/18 at 8:42 pm to 1801
This is small time, silly stuff compared to Pumped Up Univ. of auNeck. They were at the forefront of feeding roids to children to get better performances out of them.
Dr. Hormone, the one and only, the Big, Blown Up auNeck, the Originator, the Applicator, the Renowned One, the OG of Needle meet Vein, the One and Only ran his dope out of auburn forever.
The University of auNecks even created a department in their cow pasture to study steroids and how it affected children who ate it and shot it up.
THE GODFATHER of Steroids To read full article, follow link.
Salesmanship, however, bored Fitton, who got his reprieve less than two years later. Terry Todd, a prominent lifter who also wrote on the subject (and a former contributor to Sports Illustrated), had founded the National Strength Research Center on the campus of Auburn. An acquaintance of Todd's from weightlifting circles, Fitton received a faculty position at the center that he says consisted of little more than helping Bill Kazmaier, a sort of strongman-in-residence, with training. "I didn't even have a bloody typewriter," Fitton says. Kazmaier, who acknowledged using steroids to SI in 1999, was the first man to bench-press more than 660 pounds in competition and later worked as commentator for ESPN's World's Strongest Man broadcasts.
Fitton found a pharmacy in Opelika, Ala., that stored the drugs. The supply channel was blessedly straightforward. Fitton would make occasional trips to Spain and Italy, where steroids were legal -- "I'd clean out the pharmacies in Milan," he says -- and fill up his luggage. He would also make periodic jaunts from San Diego to Mexico in a cheap rental car. "The old cars were better, because you could pull door panels off and load s--- in places," he says. "That's what we used to do."
He adorned the Christmas tree in his Auburn apartment with steroid bottles instead of ornaments. One year he dressed as Santa Claus, photographed himself pretending to stick a needle in his buttocks and sent the photo out as a holiday card. He looked into changing his phone number to 1-800-hormone. Alas, it was taken.
"I had no contact with him," says Kim Wood, the Cincinnati Bengals strength coach from 1975 through 2002, "but it was known in the strength world, if you wanted to cheat, this guy, working out of a little post office in Alabama, was the guy. Tony Fitton was doctor and pharmacist."
After the arrest Auburn fired Fitton. Still, he remained in town, dealing and researching steroids as intensely as ever. He says he advised or sold drugs to athletes and coaches at Auburn, Baylor, Maryland, Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin, among others. College players often found him through local weightlifters.
While hundreds of thousands of dollars moved through his accounts, Fitton lived simply. His biggest indulgence was paying for powerlifting friends to travel to international events. If clients couldn't afford a cycle, Fitton might give the product away. He claims that he let one Auburn football player open a metal cabinet in his apartment and take whatever steroids he wanted.
Dr. Hormone, the one and only, the Big, Blown Up auNeck, the Originator, the Applicator, the Renowned One, the OG of Needle meet Vein, the One and Only ran his dope out of auburn forever.
The University of auNecks even created a department in their cow pasture to study steroids and how it affected children who ate it and shot it up.
THE GODFATHER of Steroids To read full article, follow link.
Salesmanship, however, bored Fitton, who got his reprieve less than two years later. Terry Todd, a prominent lifter who also wrote on the subject (and a former contributor to Sports Illustrated), had founded the National Strength Research Center on the campus of Auburn. An acquaintance of Todd's from weightlifting circles, Fitton received a faculty position at the center that he says consisted of little more than helping Bill Kazmaier, a sort of strongman-in-residence, with training. "I didn't even have a bloody typewriter," Fitton says. Kazmaier, who acknowledged using steroids to SI in 1999, was the first man to bench-press more than 660 pounds in competition and later worked as commentator for ESPN's World's Strongest Man broadcasts.
Fitton found a pharmacy in Opelika, Ala., that stored the drugs. The supply channel was blessedly straightforward. Fitton would make occasional trips to Spain and Italy, where steroids were legal -- "I'd clean out the pharmacies in Milan," he says -- and fill up his luggage. He would also make periodic jaunts from San Diego to Mexico in a cheap rental car. "The old cars were better, because you could pull door panels off and load s--- in places," he says. "That's what we used to do."
He adorned the Christmas tree in his Auburn apartment with steroid bottles instead of ornaments. One year he dressed as Santa Claus, photographed himself pretending to stick a needle in his buttocks and sent the photo out as a holiday card. He looked into changing his phone number to 1-800-hormone. Alas, it was taken.
"I had no contact with him," says Kim Wood, the Cincinnati Bengals strength coach from 1975 through 2002, "but it was known in the strength world, if you wanted to cheat, this guy, working out of a little post office in Alabama, was the guy. Tony Fitton was doctor and pharmacist."
After the arrest Auburn fired Fitton. Still, he remained in town, dealing and researching steroids as intensely as ever. He says he advised or sold drugs to athletes and coaches at Auburn, Baylor, Maryland, Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin, among others. College players often found him through local weightlifters.
While hundreds of thousands of dollars moved through his accounts, Fitton lived simply. His biggest indulgence was paying for powerlifting friends to travel to international events. If clients couldn't afford a cycle, Fitton might give the product away. He claims that he let one Auburn football player open a metal cabinet in his apartment and take whatever steroids he wanted.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 10:31 pm to 1801
Keith Kephart. Biggest steroid dealer/USUCK S&C Coach in the business.
Next.
Next.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 10:36 pm to Benjamin Ryan
Oh, and let me say, the Shamecocks still sucked even with the best steroid guy in the business.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 11:07 pm to Benjamin Ryan
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Shamecocks
I remember middle school. You probably don’t, which is understandable
Posted on 12/25/18 at 1:18 am to FleshEatingSalsa
Since 1954
Posted on 12/25/18 at 8:45 am to 1801
Like a Virgin was the #1 song on that date. And like your post it means nothing now.
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