Olympic Committee has announced positive tests for six athletes from the Beijing Games last year. The new testing has revealed use of CERA a form of the blood booster EPO. Thee track and field...
American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard sent a letter to members of Congress Friday. Below is the text of that letter with helpful links added (by me): "Dear Member of Congress: As the Congress...
If I had to put money down on which riders were rumoured to have been caught, these two would have been at the top of my list. Piepoli, had already declared his guilt to the Saunier Duval team. Shortly after...
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Finally some positive news from a drug maker working with the World Anti-Doping Agency. This took some cyclists by surprise - notably Ricardo Ricco - and it explains some of Ricco's confidence. It's clear now that certain riders are still deterred by the possibility of...
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This week's Independent Spirit Awards nominations (for many, this writer included, the last real barometer of good filmmaking in North America) netted a number of significant nods for Canadian filmmakers and...
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Stories like this make me want to pick up to move to NY (Mike, can I crash on your couch next writer's strike?):"So, if you want to understand why virtually the entire cast and crew of SNL would put on a...
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