Sort by:
DOPING  

With the multiple doping scandals, most recently with track star Marion Jones, many have turned on USA Track and Field. There are multiple stars competing for USA Track and Field that deserve attention and praise.
At this point, I cannot help but wonder, who is NOT doping in the world of sports? Now that is something that would truly shock me. We hear about athletes in different areas of athletic activity being under suspicion, and it hangs suspicion over them completely.
Last year's Tour de France champion Floyd Landis may be proved innocent of his doping charges. The French laboratory that conducted the results may of allowed improper access to one of the samples.
New methods are explored and discussed that officials use to detect and deter one type of cheating in athletes.
American cyclist Floyd Landis, winner of last year's Tour de France, claims the laboratory charged with testing his urine samples mishandled them, in addition to using out-of-date equipment. He proclaims his innocence.
Armstrong repeatedly accused but never proven; Landis stripped of the title. What's next for the 2007 Tour De France.
Accusations of blood doping by 6-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong have been going on for years.
The 2008 Tour will see course changes as well as more stringent anti-doping efforts, which should help it on it's way back to respectability.
After Sinkewitz commented about systematically doping in the T-Mobile Team the management of the German Telekom Corporation set up a meeting to verify the option to retire from the cycling section ...
Marion Jones has repeatedly denied using performance-enhancing drugs and was adamant against being associated with BALCO. Marion Jones could have been such a great role model for some many children who aspire to become athletes one day.
The 94th Tour de France began July 7 in London without a defending titlist and with hopes of a new, successful chapter in its desire to fight doping. It ended 23 days later after superior cycling, a surprise winner and a fourth American reaching the podium.
Many people today exercise their body in hopes of fulfilling desires they hold, to be bigger, stronger, or to excel in whichever sport they take an interest in.
For the first time since the end of his two-year doping suspension, reigning Olympic time trial gold medalist Tyler Hamilton, 36, is competing again in the United States. He riding for the Italian/Russian Tinkoff Credit Systems squad and competing in the Tour de Georgia.
Tour de France winner Floyd Landis will compete in this year's race so he can continue fighting doping charges made against him at last years event.
This article explains the personal accounts of doctors over-prescribing medications.
Floyd Landis, or Floyd Mandis (as he his known in his circle of high testosterone laden men), is a cheater and an idiot. Let me tell you why.
A great NFL postseason bout gets underminded by childish antics.
Here's a rather unconventional and rather cynical look at the year that was.
Lance Armstrong uses one, but is it fair? A discussion on giving your body an advantage even during sleep.
Using non technical language as much as possible and trying not to put anyone asleep, this article gives a general overview of the technicians role in building microchips
With the steroids allegations surrounded all sports these days, there just might be a chance that for once, the accusations are incorrect.
Real life is often funnier than fiction. This is a humorous take off on an AP newswire story regarding a Swiss tradition of having their cows fight.
I am going on record to say that Roger Maris' single-season home run record of 61 home runs in 1961 is still the undeniable (if not official) MLB record for homer runs in a single season despite being broken several times.
Toyota-United's J.J. Haedo and Ivan Dominguez are two of the fastest sprinters in professional cycling today. But these teammates haven't let winning individual accolades get in the way of what's really important - their friendship.
Way before he ever caught the attention of the masses of media he has recently encountered, Floyd Landis was making a name for himself here in the U.S. as one of the best young riders of his era.
As an avid cyclist who has been riding routinely for the last eight years, I admittedly have written far too few cycling-related columns.
The professional chess world was rocked today when 13 year old chess prodigy, Bobby Baines was disqualified for testing positive for steroids. The United States Chess Federation vows to eradicate steroids from the field of play.
I don't really hate Lance Armstrong. Hate is a strong word. I hate a lot of things, like asparagus and SUV-driving housewives, but not Lance Armstrong.
Steriods have changed today's athletes, games, and the way sports are viewed by the public.
An exercise physiologist and ski instructor who lives at high altitude talks about how to deal with those breathless days (and nights) during your skiing vacation.
Like most people who watch women's professional tennis these days, I find the onslaught of excellent Russian tennis players absolutely intriguing to say the least.
By now, almost every person in America knows who Venus and Serena Williams are. The fiercely close - and competitive - sisters, took the tennis world by storm in the 1990s.
Ethically speaking, is it wrong for a professional athlete to use steroids? The ramifications run deeper than you may think.
Instead of drugs there are alternative, natural treatments that can effectively reduce and eliminate symptoms of ADHD o ADD.
America's wisdom of the 20th century is losing its way in the 21st.
With the announcement a year ago of the innaugural World Baseball Classic, baseball players,owners, and fans alike greeted the idea with fanfare. Now, in the World Baseball Classic, sixteen countries, some without star players, will bat to the finish.
In less than one week, the officials who run Major League Baseball will finally get their long-awaited wish when the upcoming World Baseball Classic begins
What stands in the way of the U.S. Olympic Downhill racing team.
When Karnam Malleshwari claimed the bronze in 2000 Olympics, she became the first female Indian Olympian, since the modern Olympics started in 1896.