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Floyd Landis says anti-doping officials sought information on Lance Armstrong
Times Staff WriterTour de France winner Floyd Landis on Thursday said U.S. anti-doping authorities offered him a reduced penalty in his own doping case last year if he would provide evidence incriminating cycling superstar Lance Armstrong, a former teammate. Landis said...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Drugs and Medicines, Floyd Landis, Recreational Substance Use
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Athletes' unbeatable foe
Times Staff WriterFirst of two parts Click for part two The worldwide sports anti-doping program, created to fight performance-enhancing drug use in international athletics, imposes severe punishments for accidental or technical infractions, relies at times on disputed...Tags: Urinalysis, Track Cycling, Crime, Law and Justice, BBC, Colleges and Universities
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'Bigger, Stronger, Faster': Heavy lifting that someone's got to do
Special to The TimesMention steroids and the images of vein-popping, muscle-bulging athletes raging toward illicit victory -- and, increasingly, controversial, high-profile government hearings -- spring to mind. One thing that might not seem immediately relevant is a typical...Tags: Documentary (genre), Drugs and Medicines, Drama (genre), Sports, Movies
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'Bigger, Stronger, Faster'
Times Movie CriticSylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The 1980s saw an explosion of butt-kicking in America, observes Christopher Bell in the raucously funny and surprisingly insightful prologue to his debut documentary, "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*."...Tags: Crisis, Hulk Hogan, Documentary (genre), Chris Bell, Sylvester Stallone
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'Back Back Back' at the Old Globe
Times Theater CriticSAN DIEGO -- Stepping up to the plate and hitting one out of the park is the consummate American fantasy. Our entire system is built on such a dream -- from schnook to big cheese with one swing of the bat. This obsession with home runs, and the...Tags: Ivy League, Lifestyle and Leisure, Sports, Ron Howard, Hot Dogs
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Bonds passes Ruth on all-time home run list
Times Staff WriterSAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds, the greatest home run hitter of his generation, became the second-greatest home run hitter of all time Sunday afternoon when he hit No. 715 of his long and often controversial career. Bonds, who remains at the epicenter of...Tags: Hank Aaron, AT&T Park, Sports, Willie Mays, Baseball
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Bonds' legacy is safe at home
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSAN FRANCISCO -- At Joe DiMaggio playground in the North Beach neighborhood near Fisherman's Wharf, the same park where DiMaggio learned to play baseball as a youngster, Jesse Smith spent Thursday afternoon practicing his free-throw shooting technique...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, AT&T Park, Gaylord Perry, Sports
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Throw the bums out!
It's baseball season, finally, so you know what that means—a hard-fought, months-long competition to see who can win the title of Most Grandstanding Politician, ready to butt the federal government's nose into places it has no business sniffing. There...Tags: Justice System, Politics, NASCAR, Crime, Law and Justice, ESPN (tv network)
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Hot and dry -- for decades
GLEN M. MACDONALD is a professor of geography and ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA.IF YOU LIKE IT hot and dry and live in Southern California, you could be in luck. Our combination of an arid winter, scorching summer and host of wildfires may not be a short-term aberration. Consider the possibility of decades of dry, hot weather,...Tags: Global Change, Colleges and Universities, Science, Science and Technology, Water Restrictions
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Bonds-bashing: bad sport
DAVE ZIRIN is the author of the forthcoming "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports."IT TAKES QUITE THE sportsman to inspire a call for a "smiting." But Barry Bonds, closing in on Henry Aaron's all-time home run record, might just be the first jock since the young Cassius Clay to inspire such biblical animus. In her regular ESPN.com...Tags: George W. Bush, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Racism, ESPN (tv network)
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Technician defends Landis work
Times Staff WriterA technician in a French laboratory who played a central role last summer in determining Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for testosterone doping, strongly defended her analyses Tuesday. Cynthia Mongongu, an analyst at the French...Tags: Tour de France, Justice System, University of California, Los Angeles, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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'The Yankee Years' by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Last week, as the controversy over Joe Torre and Tom Verducci's "The Yankee Years" was ratcheting up, I got an e-mail from my brother, who, like me, is a lifelong New York Yankees fan. "As I understand it," he wrote, "Torre is saying NYY is a tough...Tags: Mariano Rivera, George Steinbrenner, Baseball, Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens
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