Fast Break

Cycling

Cycle of Landis progress is slow

The Tour de France’s race director expressed frustration Tuesday over the slow progress of Floyd Landis’ doping case.

“The anti-doping commission in the United States won’t meet until the first days of March to study the Landis case – that’s too much time,” said Christian Prudhomme. “The situation is unbearable.”

The Tour no longer considers Landis the winner of cycling’s biggest race after the American tested positive for elevated testosterone levels after his dramatic win in the 17th stage.

“The disappointment is that we’re going to know who the winner of 2007 is before we get to know who won in 2006,” Prudhomme said.

Football

So much for sentiment

Jim McMahon quarterbacked the Bears to their first Super Bowl win 21 years ago. He won’t watch them try for a second title.

“I don’t care,” McMahon said in Chicago, where he attended an event promoting a program called “Valentines for Vets and Soldiers,” where elementary school students send homemade cards and letters to soldiers and veterans. “I haven’t watched the game in 10 years.”

Horse racing

Churchill Downs offers burial site

Barbaro’s final resting place could be just a few hundred yards from the scene of his greatest triumph in the Kentucky Derby.

Officials at the Kentucky Derby Museum, located on the grounds of Churchill Downs, said they’d be “honored” if Barbaro were buried in a garden along with four other Derby winners.

The grave sites of Derby winners Sunny’s Halo (1983), Carry Back (1961), Swaps (1955) and Brokers Tip (1933) are located outside on the museum grounds.

Barbaro’s owners, Gretchen and Roy Jackson, haven’t made a decision on where the horse will be buried.

Barbaro was euthanized Monday after complications from his gruesome breakdown at last year’s Preakness Stakes, the second race of the Triple Crown.