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Proudly confessing

NEW YORK -- To the world-weary, Lance Armstrong's confession to Oprah was just one more in a series. The process of public contrition is by now yawningly familiar: Comfortably seated in front of cameras, the high priestess of the mea culpa faces the...

Tags: Livestrong Foundation, James Frey, Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong

Live updates: Lance Armstrong says he wishes he hadn't fought USADA

Lance Armstrong said in his interview broadcast Thursday night with Oprah Winfrey that he did not do anything to try to influence the U.S. Atty.’s office in Los Angeles to drop its grand-jury probe of him last February. “No, none, that&...

Tags: Floyd Landis, Cycling, Christian Vande Velde, Livestrong Foundation, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency

Armstrong comes clean in his own words

After nearly 15 years of defiant denials and denunciations of those who said he had doped his way to success, Lance Armstrong put the lie to all that by telling Oprah Winfrey he had used performance-enhancing drugs during all seven of his Tour de France...

Tags: Livestrong Foundation, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Tour de France, Drugs and Medicines, Cycling

The L words that define Lance Armstrong

Ten observations on the Lance Armstrong saga, which took on a new dimension once the Big O got involved and apparently got the defrocked 7-time Tour de France winner to tell the truth, or some of it, about his doping: 1.  It would be a lot easier to...

Tags: Tour de France, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Buzz Bissinger, The New York Times, Frankie Andreu

Lance Armstrong admits doping to Oprah, but not after 2005

In a sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Thursday night on Winfrey's OWN channel, Lance Armstrong admitted to using banned substances, including the hormone EPO and testosterone, to win his seven straight Tour De France races in the late...

Tags: Tour de France, Satellite and Cable Service, OWN (tv network), Olympic Games, Cycling

Lance Armstrong reveals his most humbling moment to Oprah

Lance Armstrong admitted in the second half of his highly touted interview with Oprah Winfrey that the most humbling moment in his fall from athletic superstar grace was the moment in November 2012 when he severed all ties with Livestrong, the cancer...

Tags: Tour de France, Livestrong Foundation, OWN (tv network), Drugs and Medicines, Olympic Games

Lance Armstrong mea culpa is a dagger through the heart

It was a glorious day in 1993 when Lance Armstrong won America's top professional bicycle race, the annual CoreStates U.S. Pro Cycling Championship in Philadelphia. My wife and I were there and we were just a few feet from the award ceremonies after the...

Tags: Floyd Landis, Frankie Andreu, Cycling, Tour de France, Marty Nothstein

Lance Armstrong admits to EPO, blood doping and other banned substances in Oprah Winfrey interview

One in 20 youth has used steroids to bulk up: study

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About five percent of middle and high school students have used anabolic steroids to put on muscle, according to a new study from Minnesota. In addition to steroid use, more than one-third of boys and one-fifth of girls in the...

Tags: Steroids, Schools, Drugs and Medicines, High Schools, Cycling

Even Lynyrd Skynyrd singer says hometown Jaguars dropped ball on Tim Tebow

Running off at the typewriter. … Johnny Van Zant, lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, was in town Friday night playing a concert at the UCF Arena. When I asked him why his hometown Jaguars haven't acquired another Jacksonville legend — Tim...

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