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CB Nahshon Wright leads NFL with $1.4M performance-based pay

Former Chicago Bears cornerback Nahshon Wright is receiving over $1.4 million in performance-based pay for the 2025 season, highlighting the more than $542 million the league is paying out for players whose play time was not proportional to their salary.,That payout will more than double Wright's $1...

by Field Level Media|

|Mon Mar 16 2026

White Sox minor leaguer Christian Edwards suspended 80 games

Christian Edwards, a minor league pitcher in the Chicago White Sox system, was suspended 80 games without pay by Major League Baseball following a positive test for Boldenone.,Boldenone is classified as a performance-enhancing substance, and its use violates Major League Baseball's Joint Minor Leagu...

by Field Level Media|

|Sat Jun 22 2024

LeBron James, wife and 2 associates named in federal PED investigation

There hasn’t been a performance-enhancing drugs scandal in basketball. At least, not to the level of, say, the likes of BALCO and Major League Baseball. As close as we came was when the NBA started testing players for HGH before the beginning of the 2015-16 season. The trendy thing to do online at t...

by Eric Blum|

|Wed Sep 13 2023

Victor Conte: Players are still doping and the leagues know it

There is a warped irony in the timing between Netflix’s new sports-doping documentary, Untold: Hall of Shame, and the most recent suspension of a professional athlete for violating a league’s performance-enhancing drug policy....

by Staff Report|

|Wed Aug 16 2023

These are the best — and worst — Super Bowl National Anthems

Assuming you’ve got all your Super Bowl snacks and fixings in time, the Super Bowl National Anthem is the first real indication that the game is about to start. At least, that’s usually when everyone at the Super Bowl party starts shhhing everyone else. Not necessarily because everyone gets misty-ey...

by Julie DiCaro|

|Tue Feb 06 2024

Oh yeah, it’s Fat Bear Week!

Look, normally in this space in the a.m., I’d have to talk about Hockey Canada’s chair pulling a “Not All Men!” act in front of the Canadian parliament. Or a couple of owners in NWSL relinquishing “day-to-day” operations of their teams, but not selling their teams and disappearing into the cave wher...

by Sam Fels|

|Wed Oct 05 2022

Whitney, Marvin, Jimi and the best <em>Star-Spangled Banner</em> performances ever

Mickey Guyton, a four-time Grammy nominated country artist, will sing the national anthem at Super Bowl LVI. She’s just the latest decorated performer to sing at the Super Bowl....

by Staff Report|

|Sat Feb 05 2022

Nike Running Coach Alberto Salazar Hit With Four-Year Doping Ban By USADA

Legendarily shady running coach Alberto Salazar was given a four-year ban by the USADA Monday, for what it described as “orchestrating and facilitating prohibited doping conduct” while working for Nike as the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project. Dr. Jeffrey Brown, a consultant for the NOP, also r...

by Chris Thompson|

|Tue Oct 01 2019

Recommitted Cardinals Star Patrick Peterson Hit With Six-Game PED Suspension

Arizona Cardinals all-world cornerback Patrick Peterson has been suspended by the NFL for the first six games of the 2019-20 regular season, for violation of the league’s policy on performance enhancing substances. According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, Peterson’s suspension includes four games ...

by Chris Thompson|

|Thu May 16 2019

WWE's Talent Development System Has A Serious Identity Crisis

In a promotion not known for underselling, few WWE projects have been more relentlessly touted than the reimagining of the company’s talent development program in 2013. Before that reinvention, the process usually worked like this: a local promotion and its wrestling school would be contracted to he...

by David Bixenspan|

|Wed Feb 14 2018