The complete online text of The Real Dope by Ring Lardner.

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (1885-1933), American writer, was an important literary humorist and the author of sports fiction. His stories are distinguished by a bitterly sardonic view of humanity. He has been called the "greatest and sincerest pessimist Ame...

Ring Lardner was one of the most admired American writers of the 1920s--praised by Virginia Woolf in 1925 as the author of "the best prose that has come our way" from America; compared favorably to Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Anton Chekhov, Bernard Shaw,...

Ring Lardner began his writing career as a newspaperman, first covering routine assignments for a local paper in South Bend, Indiana, then moving to Chicago where he was a sports reporter specializing in baseball. In many ways, his work always showed the...

Byline: Bob Molinaro In the wake of this week's drug suspensions of two of the biggest names in American track and field, fans of the sport are in an uproar. All seven or eight of them. Doping, cry alarmists, can...

While the designer steroid THG and similar power-producers have received most of the anti-doping media hype leading up to the Athens Olympics, many officials are concerned that a scandal could be brewing with endurance athletes, who may have discovered an edge of their own....