Greg LeMond

University of New Haven men's soccer goalie James Hilaire was in critical condition at Boston Medical Center Thursday after being injured in a collision with a Merrimack player Wednesday night in North Andover, Mass. The game was suspended with 27...

On July 23, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president, died at 63 in Mt. McGregor, N.Y. In 1888 novelist Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago. In 1945 French Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Floyd Landis used the arbitration process as public theater to try to prove a point and regain his reputation. In the latest attempt that almost certainly will be his last, the anti-doping establishment slapped down the one-...

SwimmingTowson's Hoff named Athlete of the Year Katie Hoff of Towson won Female Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive year at USA Swimming's Golden Goggle awards Sunday night in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hoff, who beat out Natalie Coughlin and Kate...

The head of cycling's international sanctioning body told 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis that his defense against doping charges would leave him "penniless," warning the cyclist: "There's no way you can win." The admonition appears in Landis'...

It was supposed to be the case against American cyclist Floyd Landis, but from opening statements through early testimony it was also the case against a controversial Paris lab. And the challenge is likely to continue throughout the public hearings...

Nearly 10 years ago, in an Indiana hospital, a few days after he had cancer surgery, his life at stake and his racing future suddenly very secondary, cyclist Lance Armstrong was allegedly asked by doctors if he had ever taken performance-enhancing...

1978 June 7: The Washington Bullets win the NBA championship with a 105-99 victory over the Seattle SuperSonics in Game 7. June 13: Aberdeen High School star Cal Ripken, 17, signs with the Orioles after the club selects him in the second round of...

Final thoughts on a memorable two weeks in Greece This is my last blog from the Athens Olympics, which I'm assuming will be one of the more memorable I've covered for a number of reasons. Foremost among them, I'm sure, will be the swimming of Michael...

If you ride with Chuck Schmidt and friends, it's best to bring a bicycle built before Greg LeMond won the Tour de France. "Anything before click shifting or click-in pedals," Schmidt says, explaining the accepted ground rules for the small group of...

Minnesota excels at producing unlikely pairs. In the field of literature there is the dissimilar duo of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis (Riviera and prairie); in politics, Eugene McCarthy and Harold Stassen; in music, Bob Dylan and the Artist...