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"The 19-year-old student, and son of former Scotland and British & Irish Lions fly-half Craig Chalmers, is alleged to have tested positive in a random drugs test while involved with Scotland Under-20s towards the end of last season. The IRB, SRU and Melrose RFC all declined to comment on the case, other than to re-state their commitment to keeping rugby clean and disciplining players in line with the UK Sport and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) guidelines."

"Last season, five players at Premiership clubs tested positive for recreational drugs. The Rugby Football Union disclosed in its annual anti-doping report that the cases would be treated confidentially and punished with a "first-strike fine"."

"FIFA has lifted the suspension of a Bulgaria player within few hours after he tested positive for doping at a World Cup qualifying match."

"Sydney Roosters general manager Brian Canavan said on Wednesday that his players were tested for human growth hormone without the consent of club officials and staff. Confirming he had severed ties with the weight loss and nutritional company Nubodi earlier this year he said the Roosters had been disturbed to discover that his players were tested for the levels of HGH in their blood during the firm's brief association with the club."

"Wide receiver Mac Morrison of Acton, a second-year member of the Guelph Gryphons' OUA football squad, has received a suspension of two years for an anti-doping rule violation."

"Major League Baseball is all set to use evidence from more than one of those cases in its effort to suspend Alex Rodriguez in lieu of a laboratory test."

"A Jamaican international footballer and a Jamaican team official have been provisionally suspended by the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee for an initial period of 30 days."

"The chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee has provisionally suspended a Zimbabwean international footballer for an initial period of 30 days and opened disciplinary proceedings following an adverse analytical finding in relation to a doping control conducted after the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ qualifier between Zimbabwe and Egypt played in Harare, Zimbabwe on 9 June 2013."

"The Australian Football League (AFL) has fined the Footscray Football Club, currently known as the Western Bulldogs, for breaching the player movement rules of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority during its recent training camp in the United States."

"Brandon Browner, American football cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League, who refused to comply with the NFL policy against drug abuse for players, has been suspended indefinitely."

The new lawyer for Alex Rodriguez, opening a fresh defence for a player who sees himself as unfairly targeted by Major League Baseball and his team, said that the New York Yankees tried to hasten the end of his career by playing him when he was injured and that baseball's commissioner is personally determined to brand Rodriguez as the "poster boy" for doping.

"The world governing body of football is creating blood and urine profiles of the world's top players with unannounced visits by an anti-doping team to clubs like Champions League winner Bayern Munich. This is done to ensure that the stars are under scrutiny ahead of next year's football World Cup."

"He will also need to do his bit to ensure the sport promotes a robust drug testing programme, while placating those leading players who have expressed distrust in the system after two much-discussed recent cases."

"PARIS: Marin Cilic on Monday won his first match since a doping suspension forced him to pull out of Wimbledon, saying at the Paris Masters that bad science and errors had led to his ban. The former top 10 player, now ranked 47th, opened in Paris with a 5-7 6-1 6-4 defeat of Dutchman Igor Sijsling."

"World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey is all set to introduce changes to the anti-doping code that would result in the NRL and AFL being forced to act against coaches and support staff who use banned substances for their players."