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Dropping amidst this worldwide corona lockdown, the episodes of ESPN’s documentary on Michael Jordan played out like life-sustaining oases in a global desert. But those of its forthcoming documentary on Lance Armstrong can only play out like death-valley mirages. Lance Armstrong has admitted he thinks doping might have caused his testicular cancer and also revealed… Read more.
In “Steroids: Peyton Manning Caught on the “Dark Side,” December 29, 2015, I relegated this Football superstar to the rogues’ gallery of athletes who used steroids to fuel their way to fame, glory, and fortune. Here is an excerpt. __________________ I watched Al Jazeera’s “The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers.” And, I must say, 60 Minutes… Read more.
Peyton Manning caught using steroids The Al Jazeera undercover probe, which was posted online early Sunday morning and aired on television later in the day, reported that Manning was given human growth hormone in 2011 while he was recovering from neck surgery. … [The report] contends that steroids and other drugs were shipped to the home address… Read more.
I am not a TV critic. And, unlike many on social media, I have no financial interest in recommending anything on this blog. But I watched ESPN’s 30 for 30: Slaying the Badger on Tuesday night. It glorifies and vindicates Greg Lemond. He, of course, is best known as the canary who sounded alarms about cyclists like Lance Armstrong using… Read more.
Folks, let me make this perfectly clear: Lance Armstrong confessing that he’s a doper is about as newsworthy as Jodie Foster admitting that she’s gay. But I know enough about the television news business to know that getting the first confessional interview with this disgraced cyclist was probably even more coveted than getting the first… Read more.
It pains me to concede today that the evidence is indeed overwhelming that Lance fueled his way to cycling glory on a cocktail of PEDs that make those he took to treat his cancer seem like mere aspirin… The real tragedy here is not Lance falling from grace, but the disillusionment this is bound to… Read more.
The entire world seems shocked by the BREAKING NEWS that the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has stripped Lance Armstrong of all cycling titles and prize money won since 1998 and banned him from the sport for life. Most notably this includes stripping him of his seven Tour de France titles. But I am not: The… Read more.
I suspect Lance Armstrong thought his legacy was secure when federal prosecutors announced a few months ago that, after investigating all allegations of doping against him, they would not be filing any criminal charges. But I warned him back then, in Feds Give Lance Armstrong Reprieve on Doping (February 8, 2012), that popping that champagne cork might be… Read more.
[H]e will be indicted; he will be convicted; and he will go to prison. And, just like Marion, it won’t be for taking performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), but for lying so openly and notoriously about it. I am equally certain that it’s only a matter of time before the French move to strip him of his seven… Read more.
I have written many commentaries extolling Lance Armstrong’s remarkable accomplishments – not just as a professional cyclist (most notably his unprecedented and unequaled seven consecutive victories in the Tour de France), but also as a fundraiser for cancer research (most notably the over $400 million he has raised primarily through donations to his LIVESTRONG website).… Read more.
