A commission studying the circumstances surrounding a drug test given to Reggie Lewis and others on the Northeastern University basketball team in 1987 says it will release a report by September.
Northeastern president John A. Curry formed the commission last month after reports arose that Lewis tested positive for cocaine before the team played in the 1987 NCAA basketball tournament.Lewis, who went on to become captain of the Boston Celtics, died in July 1993, three months after he collapsed in an NBA playoff game.
Curry later learned of the Northeastern test, and pledged to form the commission.
Curry suspended Irwin Cohen, the athletic director in 1987 and now a special assistant to the president, with pay for withholding information about the test from then-president Kenneth Ryder and himself.