Archive for July, 2009

Wow. To think I didn’t particularly care for Jeremy Mayfield before everyone thought he was a meth-head.

NASCAR accused Jeremy Mayfield of lying to a federal court about the chronology of a second random drug test, offering to provide an audio tape of the conversation in which Mayfield was told to submit a sample. The driver says the telephone call went to voicemail.

So, he’s a liar too.

Sad. It’s sad that it took people so long to see the real Jeremy Mayfield. How can anyone trust him about drug use when he can’t even tell the truth about a phone call, which was recorded?

What an ass.

Finally, someone does something smart again.

Jeremy Mayfield is back under suspension for a failed random drug test after an appeals court ruled in NASCAR’s favor Friday, issuing a stay on the injunction that gave the driver the right to return to the race track.

The one-page decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stands until NASCAR’s full appeal can be heard.

It’s about time someone wised up. Ruling that Mayfield could race pending the outcome was the stupidest thing anyone has ever done, even though he never showed up to race anyway.

This was a really bad idea. Really bad.

A judge issued a temporary injunction on Wednesday that lifted Jeremy Mayfield’s drug suspension, saying the NASCAR driver is free to race at Daytona this weekend.

U.S. District Court Judge Graham Mullen concluded the “likelihood of a false positive in this case is quite substantial.” The decision came after NASCAR’s lawyers portrayed Mayfield as a danger to the sport after he tested positive for methamphetamines on May 1. He was suspended indefinitely eight days later.

Mayfield’s lawyers argued he never used recreational drugs and that NASCAR’s testing system was flawed.

It doesn’t matter if the test was “flawed” or what the likelyhood of a false positive was. This judge has now set precedent so every athlete in every sport can now run to the courts to have their suspensions overturned while the investigation of their possible abuse continues.

This was a really bad thing to do. There are other ways to handle it, and this was definitely not the best way.