Former Tour de France Director Questions Lance Armstrong's Comeback

Former Tour de France director Jean-Marie Leblanc has publicly expressed doubts over Lance Armstrong's return to cycling. Leblanc told the Velo Star that news of the comeback took the cycling world by surprise and he...

Retirement Rebound - The Return of Torres, Favre and Armstrong

Maybe its the fear of turning 40. Maybe its the feeling of unfinished business. Maybe its the fire in the belly that has not quite extinguished. For retired elite athletes, the itch is always there to make a return...

Confirmed: Lance Armstrong to Come out of Retirement

UPDATE: This rumour has now been confirmed by Armstrong himself to Douglas Brinkley of Vanity Fair. " In a statement released Tuesday afternoon and in an article published on VanityFair.com, Lance Armstrong...

Tour de France: Why Stage 17 Matters

There is a history to the Tour. It has its legendary riders: Eddy Merckx (a.k.a. "the canibal") who is the only one to ever win all three jerseys in a single Tour, Miguel Indurain, Fausto Coppi, and of course Lance...

No More Disco - US-based Cycling Team Folds

The team that Lance Armstrong put on the map has announced it will no longer be competing and will disolve at the end of the year. Tailwind sports, the team behind Discovery Channel and previously US Postal cycling teams has not been able to find a new sponsor for the...

Summer of scandal and the death of sport?

"...With each passing day it gets harder and harder to watch sports without feeling the need to take a shower afterwards. If you're a principled, thinking person, you may spend a lot of time, as I do, realizing that your continued attention to the game is helping finance...

Tour de Gastown Begins Today

If you're going to have a cycling event it needs a French name.  After all, the Tour de Gastown sounds less likely to involve the steam clock than the Gastown Tour.  Either way, the streets of Vancouver in...

Armstrong Gets a Taste of Running Endurance: Thrills the NYC Crowd

"I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier," he said. "(My shins) started to hurt in the second half, especially the right one. I could barely walk up here, because the calves...

The Impeach Bush Jogging Circus

Kate Armstrong first brought Nowpublic's attention to the Impeach Bush Jogging Circus, participating in this year's NYC marathon.  I've emailed the circus -- and folks, we will have pictures up from the Jogging...

So many stories for this years NYC Marathon

"# Lance Armstrong will have a crazy team of people who will pace him: Past marathon winner Alberto Salazar and Joan Benoit Samuelsson and Olympic 1500m and 5000m champion Hicham el-Guerrouj! # Paul Tergat and...
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Armstrong/McConaughey Gay Rumor Dispelled

How can the words Matthew McConaughey and gay be in the same sentence? "Paparazzi have lately been taking pictures of McConaughey and Armstrong working out, and hanging out on the beach wearing very little."

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Best, worst comebacks in sports history

When Evander Holyfield steps into the ring against Jeremy Bates on Friday night (Best Damn Sports Show Period, 10:30 p.m. ET), he will be continuing either one of two longstanding boxing traditions: the incredible comeback against overwhelming odds or the sad,...

American Landis wins Tour de France

"Floyd Landis won the Tour de France on Sunday, keeping cycling's most prestigious title in American hands for the eighth straight year. The 30-year-old Landis cruised to victory on the Champs-Elysees, a day after...

Lance Armstrong, Sheryl Crow Break Up (AP)

"AP - Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow have split, the couple announced in a joint statement Friday night. The seven-time Tour de France champion and the rock star announced their engagement in September. It would have been her first marriage and his second. He has three...

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