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Timothy Bradley asked for and received USADA testing for Saturday's fight with Ruslan Provodnikov, and said in an interview this week that he hopes for boxing to expand its normal drug testing procedures.

Ten world records in the first three days. Then six more on Wednesday. Thursday only resulted in two world records. In Sydney in 2000 a total of just 14 world records were set. Less than that many...

We learned this week that Kolton Houston, who had been the Georgia Bulldogs' projected starter at right tackle coming out of spring practice, remains ineligible, as determined by the NCAA, due to...

UFC veteran Kenny Florian editorializes against PED use and calls for random drug testing in this video from UFC Tonight.

Roy Nelson talks to Ben Fowlkes about the prevalence of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in modern-day mixed martial arts (MMA).

Nate Wilcox and Luke Thomas debate whether or not the UFC is at an inflection point in their business in this video chat with transcript.

Three recent events indicate that the UFC has reached an inflection point in their business cycle: the decision to cancel UFC 145 in Montreal; the decision to test new UFC fighters for PEDs before signing them; and the UFC's continued stubborn advocacy of SOPA even after it failed.

The UFC and Strikeforce have made a major change to their signing process as they will now screen fighters for PEDs prior to inking new deals with fighters.

Yesterday, the California State Athletic Commission voted 4-1 to uphold an indefinite suspension that was placed on former UFC middleweight contender Chael Sonnen on April 19th due to a claim that he may have committed perjury during a hearing in December regarding a positive drug test for elevated testosterone levels.