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¿Penn State voted AP sports story of year again
AP Sports WriterNEW YORK (AP) — The Penn State child sex abuse scandal was selected as the sports story of the year by U.S. editors and news directors in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press. The news broke in November 2011, with a grand jury report...Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, Jerry Sandusky, Super Bowl, Usain Bolt, Junior Seau
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What was the No. 1 sports story of 2012?
Look toward London Iliana Limón Romero Orlando Sentinel The London Olympics delivered the most compelling storylines of 2012. Gabby Douglas was not considered a contender for the women's gymnastics all-around gold medal at the beginning of the year,...Tags: Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012), Jerry Sandusky, Michael Phelps, Joe Paterno, Gabby Douglas
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Report: Lance Armstrong apologizes but does not confess to doping
Lance Armstrong apologized to the staff at his Livestrong cancer foundation -- but did not make a direct confession to using banned drugs -- before heading to his scheduled interview with Oprah Winfrey on Monday, a person with direct knowledge of the...
Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Sports, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Livestrong Foundation, Lance Armstrong
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Leonard Pitts: Better to lose with grace than to win with deceit
One guy was among the greatest losers in the history of politics, the other, one of the biggest winners in all of sports. They were unalike men who shared little except recent headlines. But there was, in that brief juxtaposition, an object lesson for...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War II (1939-1945), Richard Nixon, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Lance Armstrong
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Lance #Armstrong: Cheaters, it seems, do prosper
SportsTalkWhoever coined the phrase, "Cheaters never prosper," never had Lance Armstrong in mind. The disgraced former seven-time Tour de France champion was unceremoniously stripped of his titles and banned from all sanctioned athletic competitions by the U.S.... -
Medals stripped from Athens Olympians
Associated PressEight years after winning Olympic medals in Athens, four track and field athletes from eastern Europe were ordered to hand them back Wednesday because of positive doping tests. Lance Armstrong, meanwhile, can hold onto his bronze medal from the 2000...Tags: Track and Field, Sports Organizations, U.S. Postal Service, Sports, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
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Cyclist Floyd Landis admits defrauding donors with doping lies
L.A. NOWFormer cycling champion Floyd Landis has admitted defrauding more than 1,700 people who donated to his "Fairness Fund" aimed at defending him against charges that he used performance-enhancing drugs, the U.S. attorney’s office in San Diego announced... -
Lance Armstrong case: U.S. atty. still won't say why no charges
L.A. NOWAs Lance Armstrong continued to face fallout from doping allegations — this time, being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles — questions still surround a federal investigation that closed without criminal charges being filed.... -
Reactions to Armstrong not all black and white
A 17-year-old sports fan I know named Evan who survived a rare form of heart cancer still wore his yellow Livestrong bracelet to school Wednesday. To the socially attuned teenager, the rubber wristband always will represent the strength it required to...Tags: Chemotherapy, Testicular Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Sports, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
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On vacation with Lance Armstrong
For a while there, we vacationed with Lance Armstrong every summer. And Tyler Hamilton and George Hincapie and Levi Leipheimer and Floyd Landis. All the boys. They'd be in France, of course, while we were at the shore in Delaware. But the nasal...
Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, Trips and Vacations, Joe Paterno, Levi Leipheimer, Travel
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The Quixotic World of Connecticut's Boutique Bike-Makers
Maybe Peter Weigle and his peers really belong in another realm. Some place and time totally unlike our mass-production-plastic-and-high-tech-carbon-fiberized-21st-Century-profit-and-speed-obsessed-America. Some distant dimension where anyone wanting to...
Tags: Back Pain, Sports, Cycling
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Armstrong Severs Ties with Livestrong Foundation
CNNLance Armstrong has quit the board of his namesake foundation -- the latest fallout from allegations of doping that brought about the cycling icon's epic downfall. He chose to resign from the Lance Armstrong Foundation -- known by the name Livestrong --...Tags: Cancer, Travel, Sports, Charity, International Olympic Committee
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