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Baseball players say they want to clean up the game
SEATTLE — When cyclist Lance Armstrong was found to have used performance-enhancing drugs last fall, he was publicly disgraced, stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport for life. When outfielder Melky Cabrera tested...
Tags: Houston Astros, Baltimore Orioles, Manny Ramirez, Sports, Oakland Athletics
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Bud Selig puts himself in tough spot with crackdown on drugs
Whenever the questions turn to drugs, Bud Selig has two talking points. First, Selig inevitably says that baseball has the toughest drug policy in American sports. This is true. Second, Selig points out that he commissioned the Mitchell Report and...
Tags: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Baseball, Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers
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MLB drug scandal: Baseball still can't clean up its drug act
Bud Selig, baseball's commissioner, declared the game's steroid era "clearly a thing of the past" and the use of banned performance-enhancing substances "virtually nonexistent." It was January 2010, and former home run champion Mark McGwire had just...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Baseball, World Anti-Doping Agency, Ryan Braun, Toronto Blue Jays
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Nike cuts ties with cancer charity founded by Lance Armstrong
Nike has already separated itself from Lance Armstrong, dropping its sponsorship of the disgraced cyclist in October after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency exposed him as the ringleader of a team doping program. Now the sports shoe and clothing company is...
Tags: Charity, Cycling, Sports, Livestrong Foundation, Social Issues
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Marquez chooses Bradley instead of Pacquiao for next fight [Updated]
Mexico's Juan Manuel Marquez has bypassed an immediate fifth fight against Manny Pacquiao to instead square off with world welterweight champion Timothy Bradley of Palm Springs. Calling the planned fight at Las Vegas Thomas and Mack Center on Sept. 14...
Tags: Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Asia, Singapore, Macau, The Home Depot Center
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Lance Armstrong scandal creates a mess in Spain
The Lance Armstrong doping scandal continues to reverberate through Spain, where authorities have launched an investigation into several figures allegedly linked to the American cyclist. Prosecutors are looking at Spanish citizens mentioned in the U.S....
Tags: Cycling, Sports, Andy Murray, Tour de France, Cycling Trial
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USADA chief: Lance Armstrong can implicate others in doping scandal
Travis Tygart, who is the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, told a French government senate hearing Thursday that he wants Lance Armstrong to provide information detailing the alleged complicity of cycling's governing body, the International Cycling...
Tags: Tyrann Mathieu, Cycling, NFL Draft, Sports, Football
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Lance Armstrong pulls out of swimming event after FINA objects
Lance Armstrong won't be returning to competition this weekend after all. The disgraced former cyclist, who has been banned for life from all events sanctioned by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, decided not to take part in three distance events in the...
Tags: Cycling, Andy Enfield, World Anti-Doping Agency, Sports, Tour de France
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U.S. Justice Department joining lawsuit against Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong is now in trouble with the U.S. government. The Justice Department has joined a lawsuit filed two years ago by another disgraced cyclist, Floyd Landis, MSNBC.com was first to report on Friday. The government could claim that it was...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Cycling, Justice System, Sports, Floyd Landis
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Lance Armstrong declines to cooperate with USADA
Lance Armstrong’s interest in cooperating with anti-doping authorities does not include plans to speak to the agency that most thoroughly detailed the transgressions that left him stripped of his seven Tour de France cycling titles. Armstrong on...
Tags: Litigation, Justice System, World Anti-Doping Agency, International Law, Jose Canseco
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Lance Armstrong and Steven Seagal: Doing good?
Well, well. Two famous men, both wanting to give back. No wonder that hackneyed phrase “give back” makes my skin crawl. Lance Armstrong is reportedly volunteering to “help clean up” cycling and become the repentant poster boy...
Tags: Barack Obama, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Teaching and Learning, Cycling, Sports
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Lance Armstrong sued by firm seeking repayment of $12 million
A promotion company based sued Lance Armstrong on Thursday, seeking the repayment of $12 million in bonuses that the firm paid Armstrong for winning the Tour de France. Dallas-based SCA Promotions, which contends it was conned out of the money by...
Tags: Cycling, Sports, Allen Iverson, Tour de France, Lance Armstrong
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