Emmanuel Acho joins broadcast team for controversial Enhanced Games
The Enhanced Games are the first-ever sporting competition featuring athletes taking performance-enhancing substances.
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Medina Spirit will still run in the Preakness, despite Bob Baffert’s admission of betamethasone cream a day after “cancel culture” rant
Turns out the positive test may have come from an anti-fungal cream used on the horse, not "a groom urinating in the stall after taking cough medicine."
Icarus wins Best Documentary Oscar, amidst Russian doping scandal and libel lawsuit against key figure Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov
The Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for Icarus comes at a time when the Russian doping scandal it covered is still very much in the news.
Doping whistleblower threatens countersuit against Nets’ owner Mikhail Prokhorov, alleges Russian government involvement
"Mr. Balber’s admission that unnamed ‘others’ are also financing this lawsuit is strange — raising the specter that the Kremlin itself might be acting through proxies here. Certainly, this could be problematic for all involved in this shady suit."
World Anti-Doping Agency wants to tax Olympic broadcasters to fund drug fight
The World Anti-Doping Agency has been fighting cheaters in the Olympics and its associated sports for years. But...
