performance-enhancing drugs

(Newser) - Nearly everyone has used drugs to improve performance in some aspect of life—caffeine to work late, sleeping pills to guarantee rest, medicine to clear up a cold—so it is nonsensical to prevent athletes from doing the same, argues Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post. Her answer to the...

(Newser) - The NFL has suspended Patriots safety Rodney Harrison for four games after he admitted to the commissioner that he used a banned substance. Harrison said in a conference call last night that the performance-enhancing drugs were not steroids and that he took them to "accelerate the healing process."...

(Newser) - Today's stage of the Tour de France began with riders gathering for a short protest, and ended with another team dropping out after one of its cyclists failed a drug test. According to the New York Times, Cristian Moreni was led away by police after the stage, and his team,...

(Newser) - Yankee manager Joe Torre favors his white players over their black teammates, Gary Sheffield says, but the outspoken outfielder says he doesn't consider his ex-skipper a racist. "I think it's the way they do things around there," the current Detroit slugger tells HBO in an interview set to...