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ATHENS, Ga. -- Yante Maten showed no ill effects from a 10-day layoff for exams, scoring 14 of his 18 points in the first half and grabbing 15 rebounds and Georgia beat Louisiana-Lafayette 73-60 on Wednesday night to halt the Ragin Cajuns eight-game winning streak.J.J. Frazier added 15 points and Juwan Parker a season-high 14 for Georgia (6-3), which played for the first time in 10 days because of exams.Justin Miller led Louisiana-Lafayette (8-3) with 17 points. Bryce Washington had 11 points and 18 rebounds, and Frank Bartley added 11 points and 11 boards.We had to beat a good team, said Georgia coach Mark Fox. They just won eight games in a row and will win more. This was a good game to help us get better.Maten had help inside from Derek Ogbeide who grabbed 13 rebounds. He blocked six shots and Maten blocked five.Fox was delighted with Parker, the junior wing who sat out last year and a good part of the year before that with an Achilles injury.He has been really rusty, said Fox. Essentially, he went two years straight without playing. It will take him some time to chip the rust away. He is playing the best he has in his whole career, and tonight the rust began to come off his jump shot.You just dont feel the same as how you felt before the injury, Parker said. Im getting there. I got in the film room and noticed my shooting mechanics were off.Georgia scored the first 11 points of the game, putting the Rajin Cajuns in chase mode for the rest of the game. The Ragin Cajuns, who entered with the nations seventh-ranked offense, didnt score a field goal until Bartley hit a 3-pointer with 12:17 to go in the half.We never got in a rhythm in the first half, said Louisiana-Lafayette coach Bob Marlin. They took away our transition because they have three guys back. The big guys just played ping-pong in there and were able to score every time.In the second half Louisiana-Lafayette closed to 40-38 with 17:16 to play when Bartley nailed a 3-pointer. 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The expansion of marijuana legalization across the United States during this weeks elections will not spur any immediate changes in the NFLs joint drug policy with the NFL Players Association, spokesmen for both the league and the NFLPA said Wednesday.The NFLPA, however, will continue its pre-election efforts to form a pain management committee that will, among other tasks, explore the use and effects of marijuana as a natural pain reliever.The committee, said NFLPA assistant executive director of external affairs George Atallah, will look at all ailments facing our members with marijuana only one substance of a much bigger issue.Marijuana is now legal in 28 states and Washington, D.C., for medicinal purposes. Seven states -- most recently California, which hosts four NFL teams -- will allow it for recreational use.But it remains one of eight drugs banned under the NFLs policy and program on substances of abuse. A test result indicating 35 ng/mL or more of marijuana in the bloodstream results in a violation, leading to a graduated series of discipline that includes fines and suspensions.In a recent poll conducted by ESPNs NFL Nation, nearly two thirds of active players surveyed said they believed that a relaxation of the NFLs marijuana policy would reduce the amount of chemical painkillers in use.ddddddddddddn a statement, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said that a group of jointly appointed independent medical advisers is constantly reviewing and relying on the most current research and scientific data but has found no impetus to change the current policy.We continue to follow the advice of leading experts on treatment, pain management and other symptoms associated with concussions and other injuries, McCarthy said. However, medical experts have not recommended making a change or revisiting our collectively-bargained policy and approach related to marijuana, and our position on its use remains consistent with federal law and workplace policies across the country. If these advisers determine a change would be in the best interest of our players, we would discuss it. ' ' '