University of Hawai'i athletic officials yesterday said they will look into allegations raised by a former receiver, including Internet postings that claimed school officials and players manipulated NCAA-mandated drug tests.

Ian Sample, who recently published a book chronicling the 2006 season entitled, "Once A Warrior," released unpublished material on the Internet about excessive drinking, widespread use of marijuana, sex with groupies and rigged drug tests.

Sample, who now plays professional football in Japan, wrote that he's "convinced the 'random' tests are not random at all."

"The higher ups definitely know what they are doing when they decide who will be tested," he wrote. "However, getting tested doesn't necessarily mean getting caught, every once in a while a player will side step a positive test result by flushing out their system (the real smokers know where to go to get a cleansing elixir)."

UH football coach June Jones said he has "no problems" with Sample's book, but was disappointed in the book's deleted passages that appeared on Sample's www.Myspace.com page.

"The NCAA picks out who they drug test, not me, not the school," Jones said.

Jones said posting the deleted passages "was dishonorable. It's too bad."

Jones said he read the online passages, but not the book. He said his comments are directed only at the online passages.

"Make sure you write that's what I was referring to," Jones said. "I haven't read the book. But talking to the players who have, the book is good. I don't have a problem with the book."

Sample said he does not regret posting the deleted passages.

"I'm a little saddened that the blog detracted from the attention of the book, which is the most important part," Sample said. "That's my only error. I don't regret putting it up. I wish both (the printed and online versions) could have been together. In the blog, there's maybe three paragraphs that people are talking about. In the book, it's 120 pages. I wish people could look at both instead of looking at a few paragraphs, and judge me or judge the situation by that."

George Engebretson, of Watermark Publishing in Honolulu, told The Associated Press he decided not to include Sample's more controversial material in the book, even though it may have resulted in more sales.

"I had a certain vision what would be in this book and basically it would be a positive story about the UH football program and that's what we did," he told The Associated Press.

Engebretson wouldn't comment on Sample's possible motive to post the material on the Internet and said there are no plans of reprinting the book to include the omitted work.

"I don't think it really contributed to the story that Ian and I together wanted to tell," he said.

Sample wrote that marijuana was the drug of choice for the Warriors, but said he believed some players used steroids.

"Have people on the team taken steroids? Yes, they have," he wrote. "Sometimes it's obvious, you see someone improve over a couple months by leaps and bounds — we all know it's naturally impossible. I think it's known but not really talked about."

Sample said he has never known anyone caught taking steroids, but has known several players caught with marijuana in their system.

John McNamara, Hawai'i's associate athletic director, said officials are reviewing and evaluating the content of the book and the Internet postings.

"Additionally, we will meet with the necessary parties and determine what steps, if any, need to be taken," he said in an e-mail.

He did not say when the meeting would take place.