{"id":64,"date":"2014-01-09T22:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T03:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/?p=64"},"modified":"2014-01-09T22:58:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T03:58:49","slug":"troy-to-test-all-athletes-for-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/2014\/01\/09\/troy-to-test-all-athletes-for-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy to test all athletes for drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65\" alt=\"troycourt\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/01\/troycourt.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/01\/troycourt.jpg 530w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/01\/troycourt-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Troy athletic director John Hartwell said on Thursday that the school would test all athletes for drugs after a series of deaths and arrests have hit the university.<\/p>\n<p>All athletes at Troy university will be tested within the next 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told them this is a time where certainly there are some people in this room hurting,&#8221; Hartwell said.<\/p>\n<p>Troy will also increase the frequency of drug tests in the future after four students have died in off-campus incidents over the holiday break.<\/p>\n<p>Troy football player\u00a0Jadarius Garner\u00a0was found dead on Jan. 2 after being struck by a vehicle. Former Trojans football player Dimitri Miles is charged with murder in connection to a shooting in Troy while 2013 signee Taylor Diggers has been changed with the manslaugther of another student.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said we&#8217;ve got to take every precaution that we can to protect any further loss from our family, the Troy family,&#8221; Hartwell said. &#8220;The intertwining thing, without getting into the details of any case, is clearly you had weapons involved, you had alcohol and\/or drugs and you had late-night incidents.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy athletic director John Hartwell said on Thursday that the school would test all athletes for drugs after a series of deaths and arrests have hit the university. All athletes at Troy university will be tested within the next 30 days. &#8220;I told them this is a time where certainly there are some people in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,22],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-64","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaabb-news","8":"tag-ncaabb","9":"tag-troy-trojans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}