Note: Bryan Fogel's documentary Icarus, about Russia's abuse of Performance Enhancing Drugs in sports, was nominated today for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Since its release on Netflix last August, Russia has been banned from the upcoming Winter Olympics, and ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Icarus, Bryan Fogel's new documentary out on Netflix, is a compelling look inside an aspect of Putin's Russia that's gotten a bit lost in the shuffle amidst all the news coming out about their election meddling: their history of using Performance Enhancing ...read more
Just days before Floyd Mayweather's final fight with Andre Berto last weekend, award winning sports journalist Thomas Hauser broke the news on SBNation that there were very serious flaws with the drug testing Mayweather has been subjected to over the past few years. The story ...read more
(Image source: Unknown) The UFC and MMA in general is a steroid epidemic. They've started this really stringent testing and everybody is getting popped. They're just getting popped left and right. It's one of the things fighters have been saying for a long time, that everyone is ...read more
In his first major interview since his infamous sit-down with Oprah Winfrey just over two years ago, former seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong spoke with the BBC about doping and the scandal that stripped him of his Tour victories and banned him for life from ...read more
Allow me to be perfectly clear: the name "Redskins" is absolutely an offensive racial slur, and, yes, owner Dan Snyder and the Washington Redskins organization should change the name. Ultimately, doing so is harmless. Some fans will be disgruntled but they'll quickly get over ...read more
UPDATE below. ESPN's Hannah Storm delivered an emotional and poignant monologue on SportsCenter the other day, raising the questions: why isn't Ray Rice in jail, why didn't he get fired and what does the NFL stand for? I wouldn't presume to know the actual answers to these ...read more
Americans are good at a lot of things. We've defeated Nazis and ended a Holocaust. We've created a universe of technological advancements that have connected the world. We've discovered many of the vast secrets of space. We've created groundbreaking art and entertainment. You ...read more
