Doping
How Russia Was Able to Hide Its Sports Doping in Plain Sight
A World Anti-Doping Agency report alleges widespread, widely accepted doping in track and field.
Everybody's Juicing
The latest raids of undercover steroid labs suggest the market for steroids goes way beyond the world of elite athletes.
Speed Bumps: Why It's So Hard to Catch Blood Dopers in Track and Field
A cache of leaked blood tests showed hundreds of track athletes have recorded results “suggestive of doping.” With the 2015 world track championships about to start, a look at why anti-doping tests are so ineffective.
Did Tyson Gay's Coach Give the Sprinter Banned Substances?
Jon Drummond, saying he is facing a lifetime ban, is suing Gay and the head of U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for defamation.
Weak Sanctions: A Major Shift in Anti-Doping Strategy
Anti-doping investigators say they would rather trade leniency for information on coaches and other athletes involved in doping.
Lance Armstrong Says Something Interesting About Unions and Doping
Is cycling's problem that it's a sport of freelancers?
Beyond Alex Rodriguez: David Epstein Picks the 8 Best Longreads on Doping in Sports
From Outside, Sports Illustrated, and other publications.
Data Dump: Lance Armstrong Looks Even More Screwed This Morning
Former teammate tells all to the Guardian. Plus, what do the finishing times up the Tour's most fearsome mountain tell us about Armstrong's performance?
The Sugar High Jump
The results of a new study point to placebos as the perfect performance-enhancing drug: Athletes performed better on a high-jump test after unknowingly 'doping' with sugar pills.
Academic Coverage of Sports and Steroids
More than 20 years of published articles on performance-enhancing drugs have ranged from identifying the damage the drugs have on the individual to the damage they have on society as a whole.