Landis offers another theory for positive test
Jay Leno didn’t let Floyd Landis off easy, and the embattled Tour de France champion responded with yet another theory as to why he flunked a drug test.
Questioned by the “Tonight Show” host Tuesday, Landis said he may have unknowingly ingested something that made him test positive for a high testosterone ratio.
“I see you on these shows and I do want to believe you and evidence seems – I don’t know if it’s overwhelming – but it seems pretty conclusive, right?” Leno said.
Landis responded that there were several possibilities, saying, “The tests and the people doing the tests would like you to believe that the only possibility is that I essentially took some drugs and that’s why the test is that way.”
He offered still another new theory: “Now there’s also the possibility, and it’s an argument that has been used by other people. At this point, I don’t know if it’s somehow or some way I ingested something that caused the tests to be that way.”
Golf
Wie fires caddy
Michelle Wie didn’t make it through her first year as a professional without firing her caddie, getting rid of Greg Johnston after a tie for 26th in the Women’s British Open.
Swimming
Men’s team barred
A men’s synchronized swim team – the San Francisco Tsunami Swim Club – has been barred from a meet at Stanford University, reinforcing an International Olympics Committee decision designating the sport as women-only.
Basketball
Eddie Johnson arrested
Former NBA All-Star Eddie Johnson has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl, Ocala,, Fla., authorities said.
Johnson, 51, was charged with sexual battery on a child under the age of 12 and residential burglary for entering the apartment where the girl was staying while her mother was out, police said.
Miscellany
Waltz wins in Eugene
Two-time U.S. champion Ian Waltz (Post Falls, Washington State) won the men’s discus at 208 feet, 11 inches at the Road to Eugene (Ore.) track and field meet. Toby Stevenson cleared 18-8 1/4 to win the pole vault. Current world leader Brad Walker (University HS) also had the same mark but finished second. Alice Schmidt won the women’s 800 in 2:00.25 with Rebekah Noble (Rogers HS), a member of the USA Junior Team, finishing seventh in 2:04.80.
•Steve Axman, who has coached several NFL quarterbacks, was named the quarterbacks coach for the University of Montana.
•Doc Sadler was introduced as Nebraska’s new men’s basketball coach, a week after Barry Collier resigned to become Butler’s A.D.
•The Buffalo Sabres rejected forward J.P. Dumont’s one-year, $2.9 million salary arbitration award, allowing the seven-year veteran to become an unrestricted free agent.