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• Newsmakers

  February 8, 2013 in Sports on Page B2 Traded Veteran goalie Tim Thomas, who has said he won’t play this season, was traded by the Boston Bruins to the New York Islanders on Thursday for a conditional second-round …

• Lance: I lied, I cheated; Slouch: What a revelation!

  January 22, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 Lance Armstrong went on national television last week – well, he appeared on something called the OWN network – and, in a “worldwide exclusive,” told Oprah Winfrey he had doped … 1

• Anti-doping officials want details

  January 19, 2013 in Sports on Page C7 For anti-doping officials, Lance Armstrong’s admission of cheating was only a start. Now they want him to give details – lots of them – to clean up the sport of …

• Blanchette: Armstrong still has long road to recovery

  January 17, 2013 in Sports A hair-splitting mea culpa on a fifth-rate cable channel nobody gets on a day more people are buzzing about somebody else’s imaginary dead girlfriend. Yes, this is how I want …

• Oprah: Lance Armstrong admitted doping

  January 15, 2013 in Nation/World, Sports AUSTIN, Texas — Lance Armstrong has finally come clean. Armstrong confessed to doping during an interview with Oprah Winfrey taped Monday, just a couple of hours after a wrenching apology … 19

• Lance: This is how you come clean?

  January 15, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 LOS ANGELES – The Tour de Fraud, Lance Armstrong version, continues. Tighten your helmet chinstraps and grab your handlebars. Armstrong apparently has ‘fessed up. To Oprah.

• Armstrong reportedly considers confessing

  January 6, 2013 in Sports on Page C2 AUSTIN, Texas – Lance Armstrong may be considering a change in course, dropping his years of denials and admitting that he used performance-enhancing drugs – though whether such a move …

• Newsmakers

  November 13, 2012 in Sports on Page B2 Resigned Cyclist Lance Armstrong has cut formal ties with his cancer-fighting charity to avoid further damage brought by doping charges and being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. …

• Armstrong’s federal case stays closed

  October 23, 2012 in Sports on Page B2 LOS ANGELES – As Lance Armstrong continued to face fallout from doping allegations – this time, being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles – questions still surround a …

• Armstrong loses titles

  October 23, 2012 in Sports on Page B2 GENEVA – Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by the International Cycling Union on Monday. Cycling world governing body UCI said …

• Armstrong stripped of Tour de France titles

  October 22, 2012 in Sports Forget the seven Tour de France victories. Forget the yellow jersey celebrations on the Champs Elysees. Forget the name that dominated the sport of cycling for so many years. As … 19

• Blazers embrace new focal point in Aldridge

  October 19, 2012 in Sports on Page B7 PORTLAND – LaMarcus Aldridge is getting a fresh start with his old team. No, Aldridge never left the Trail Blazers, but this season is decidedly different for the All-Star. “New …

• Dahlberg: Armstrong’s con job unraveled in rush

  October 18, 2012 in Sports on Page B3 The end came quietly, with a pair of early-morning statements that said more about the guilt of Lance Armstrong than a thousand pages of evidence. Dumped by Nike. Out as …

• Armstrong stepping down as Livestrong chairman

  October 17, 2012 in Health, Nation/World AUSTIN, Texas — Lance Armstrong stepped down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer-fighting charity and Nike severed ties with him as fallout from the doping scandal swirling around the famed … 8

• Armstrong competes in Maryland triathlon

  October 8, 2012 in Sports on Page B2 Lance Armstrong competed in a triathlon Sunday after organizers dropped USA Triathlon sanctioning so he could take part in a race that raises money for cancer. Armstrong is banned from …

• In brief: ESPN networks plan to televise several Gonzaga games

  September 6, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Men’s basketball: Gonzaga will appear on the ESPN networks a minimum of 17 times throughout the 2012-13 season as the West Coast Conference and ESPN announced the WCC television schedule …

• Hamilton’s book claims Armstrong gave him blood booster

  August 31, 2012 in Sports on Page B2 Tyler Hamilton says Lance Armstrong gave him an illegal blood booster at his house before the 1999 Tour de France and the two teammates compared notes on using performance-enhancing drugs …

• What’s left? Memories

  August 25, 2012 in Sports on Page C7 SAINT-SEBASTIEN-D’AIGRE- FEUILLE, France – On the hot road to this village in the deepest south of France, we passed the forbidding, barren mountain where Lance Armstrong, the cyclist, took a …

• Garcia claims Wyndham Championship

  August 21, 2012 in Sports on Page B2 Golf: Rainy weather left Sergio Garcia stuck in central North Carolina for an extra day. Turns out, it was worth the hassle – because he’s leaving with his first PGA …

• Wiggins: The un-boss at Tour de France

  July 15, 2012 in Sports on Page C5 LE CAP D’AGDE, France – Bradley Wiggins doesn’t think the Tour de France needs a “boss” of the pack. At least not him. He says riders are equal and he’s …

• USADA files formal charges against Armstrong

  June 30, 2012 in Sports on Page C3 AUSTIN, Texas – The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency filed formal charges against Lance Armstrong, accusing the seven-time Tour de France winner of using performance-enhancing drugs throughout the best years of his …

• Armstrong claims USADA violated rules

  June 23, 2012 in Sports on Page C5 AUSTIN, Texas – Lance Armstrong filed a scathing response Friday to the latest doping allegations against him, accusing the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency of violating its own rules and possibly breaking …

• Leicester: Armstong’s story must be erased if USADA is correct

  June 17, 2012 in Sports on Page C3 PARIS – Take the entire Lance Armstrong story, the cancer survivor’s resurrection from his sick bed to conquer the hardest bike race in the world, and flush it. Goodbye. Good …

• Armstrong considers ‘all options’ in drug charge

  June 15, 2012 in Sports on Page B2 AUSTIN, Texas – Lance Armstrong is gearing up for a fight over the latest round of doping allegations. Armstrong’s lawyers demanded access to evidence gathered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, …

• US Anti-Doping Agency charges Lance Armstrong

  June 13, 2012 in Nation/World, Sports The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is bringing doping charges against seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, questioning his victories in those storied cycling races. 11

• Despite allegations, Armstrong wins again

  February 4, 2012 in Sports on Page C7 Lance Armstrong licked ’em again. Always has. Always will. Like cancer and the Tour de France, the federal government turned out to be just another challenge to conquer. On his …

• In brief: Swiss director calls Armstrong’s results ‘suspicious’

  June 2, 2011 in Sports on Page B2 Cycling: The director of the Swiss anti-doping laboratory informed federal authorities last fall that Lance Armstrong’s test results from the 2001 Tour de Suisse were “suspicious” and “consistent with EPO …

• Former teammate supports Armstrong, calls Hamilton a ‘liar’

  May 24, 2011 in Sports on Page B2 ROME – Viatcheslav Ekimov stands to receive his third Olympic gold medal in the wake of Tyler Hamilton’s doping admission. The Russian is in no mood to celebrate, though. A …

• Cycling union denies covering up positive Armstrong drug tests

  May 24, 2011 in Sports on Page B2 GENEVA – The International Cycling Union “categorically rejects” Tyler Hamilton’s allegations that it helped cover up a positive drug test by Lance Armstrong at the 2001 Tour de Suisse. The …

• Ex-teammate: Armstrong pushed doping

  May 23, 2011 in Sports on Page B1 Lance Armstrong’s former teammate, Tyler Hamilton, says Armstrong and other team leaders encouraged, promoted and took part in a doping program in an effort to win the Tour de France …

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