Adderall Isn't Helping Football Players Do Anything But Get Suspended

When word came down Sunday that the Seattle Seahawks' starting cornerbacks, Brandon Browner and Richard Sherman, were facing four-game suspensions for using performance-enhancing drugs, the natural reaction was: Aha. Browner and Sherman came from nowhere—they were, respectively, a CFL free agent and a fifth-round pick—and almost instantly became key parts of the league's second-best defense. So it wasn't magic, after all. More »