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

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

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

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Aug 11, 2017

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

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

(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

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

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

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

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

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018