Are Pigs Flying?

by Rant January 5, 2013

Lance Armstrong may confess to doping during his career as a professional cyclist. You or I may win the lottery. Which is more likely to occur? For the moment, my money is on the lottery. And yet, Juliet Macur, who has followed the doping in sports beat at the New York Times for six years […]

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Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New

by Rant December 31, 2012

When last I posted, I expected that it would be about a month before my next missive. That’s because I’d taken on an after-hours project that should have completed by the end of November. It didn’t. And it’s still not done. The current estimate is another couple of months, give or take a bit. So […]

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Forgetting Lance Armstrong

by Rant October 23, 2012

Having accepted the “reasoned decision” of the US Anti-Doping Agency, the International Cycling Union’s (UCI’s) Pat McQuaid would just like Lance Armstrong to vanish. At a press conference yesterday McQuaid said, ‘Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling … He deserves to be forgotten.’ While McQuaid and the UCI came to the right decision regarding the […]

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No Sympathy for This Devil

by Rant October 18, 2012

October 17th, apparently, was the official “National Let’s Dump Lance Armstrong Day.” Virtually all of Lance Armstrong’s sponsors ended their arrangements with him today, beginning with Nike, and including RadioShack, Trek, Giro helmets, Anheuser-Busch and FRS. Wednesday morning, shortly after Armstrong announced that he was stepping down as chairman of the Livestrong foundation, Nike dropped their […]

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USADA Shows Its Cards

by Rant October 10, 2012

Ever since Lance Armstrong threw in the towel and in essence pleaded “no contest” to the anti-doping case the US Anti-Doping Agency initiated against him, the question has been, “When will USADA make the evidence they’ve accumulated against the (now-disgraced) seven-time winner of cycling’s Super Bowl, the Tour de France, avalable?” Now we know. Today, […]

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A Most Unsatisfying Ending

by Rant August 28, 2012

With Lance Armstrong’s surprising announcement Thursday evening that he would not contest the US Anti-Doping Agency’s (USADA’s) allegations that he doped, helped others dope and participated in trafficking and a conspiracy to cover up his activities, the case against Armstrong came to an end. Regardless of whether you’re a diehard Armstrong supporter, or a long-time […]

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