Just say no, no matter the pursuit

You just know that this last week will go down as one of those memorable junctures in sports. When officials got really, really tough on drugs and threw down the gauntlet, sending shivers through potential miscreants.

Example I: Drug testing comes to chess, starting at the Asian Games.

“I would not know which drug could possibly help a player to improve his game,” competition manager Yousuf Ahmad Ali told Reuters.

First thought: Guess that wily Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, he of the frequent and lengthy bathroom breaks in the recent world championships, was one step ahead of the game. Apparently, he won’t have problems providing a sample.

Example II: “Weeds” meets Darts. Robbie “Kong” Green became the first darts player to test positive for a banned substance, in this case, marijuana. The Darts Regulation Authority promptly suspended him for eight weeks and two days.

First thought: So, what’s next? Drug testing comes to poker and horseshoes? Secondly, Briefing HQ would never want to cross something as draconian-sounding as the Darts Regulation Authority.

Trivia time

What was the score of the regular-season meeting between the Bears and the Redskins in 1940? Hint: There is a relation between that game and the outcome of the NFL championship game later that year between the teams.

Ready to wear

Talk about losing the shirts off their backs.

Inclement weather turned a routine trip to Madison, Wis., into an odyssey -- long airport delays and a long bus ride -- for the Florida International men’s basketball team, and even worse, the jerseys and shoes didn’t arrive with the traveling party.

The host school, Wisconsin, was kind enough to provide black practice jerseys and sneakers from a sporting goods store for Saturday’s game.

But Florida International Coach Sergio Rouco kept the incident in proper perspective.

“I have a bunch of kids from different countries that come from hard situations,” Rouco told reporters after Wisconsin won, 79-63.

“Being at an airport 18 hours, for them is not a hard situation. So let’s not make it dramatic. Dramatic is when you don’t have any money to eat.”

Trivia answer

Washington 7, Chicago 3.

This comes courtesy of a Morning Briefing reader. Historical records said after that game the owner of the Redskins was quoted calling the Bears “front-runners” and “quitters.” Sufficiently inspired, the Bears beat Washington, 73-0, in the NFL championship.

No word on whether any furniture stores offered any free merchandise on the outcome.

And finally

Warm weather caused Friday’s hockey game between Boston College and Boston University to be postponed because of fog midway through the first period.

Yes, fog.

“My goalie said he couldn’t see the puck,” Boston University Coach Jack Parker told U.S. Hockey College Online. “There was a point at which we couldn’t see the BC bench.”

There must be something about fog and Boston. One game in the 1988 Stanley Cup finals between the Oilers and the Bruins at the venerable Boston Garden was delayed by fog.

lisa.dillman@latimes.com