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Time for NCAA to tackle DUIs as seriously as it does PEDs

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Forget that West Virginia University annually ranks among America’s top party schools, a ranking based on reputation as opposed to metrics.

And disregard for a moment that today’s DUI in question (actually, DUIs, plural) involves the Mountaineers’ fastest receiver.

Expand your scope across campuses coast to coast, and to all the student-athletes who must forfeit multiple games for signing/selling merchandise and a full year’s eligibility for taking the wrong over-the-counter supplement.

That NCAA rulebook treats extra benefits as a matter of homeland security, but there’s a noticeable gap in its drug policy: How it handles impaired driving.