Tag Archives: Lance Armstrong
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Lance Armstrong’s Interview With Oprah Went Pretty Much as Expected (Video)
Last night was part one of Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah. Of course, you probably didn’t watch it, having lost interest in the spectacle once you heard about that whole “Manti Te’o fake dead girlfriend” scandal over at Notre Dame. So we’ve gone through and selected just the most interesting parts. We’ll start with a [...]
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Before Watching Lance Armstrong’s Confession, Watch this Compilation of All the Times He Denied Doping (Video)
So that big Lance Armstrong interview with Oprah in which he admits to using performance enhancing drugs? Yeah, that’s tonight at 9 p.m. ET on OWN—a.k.a. the Oprah Winfrey Network. Of course, now that this whole Manti Te’o mess has come to light, I’m sure Oprah and her people wish they didn’t wait so long to [...]
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Lance Armstrong’s Confession Gets the Taiwanese Animation Treatment (Video)
Over the last several years, pretty much every major event in the world of sports has been explained and analyzed in very helpful computer animation form by Next Media Animation. They’ve helped us understand the Penn State sex abuse scandal, the Roger Clemens steroids trial, Linsanity, and even the Boston Red Sox’s epic 2011 late-season [...]
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Lance Armstrong Admits PED Use To Oprah
Apparently Lance Armstrong finally saw the writing on the wall: everyone knows he used performance enhancing drugs to win his seven Tour de France titles. Time to stop lying through his teeth and ask for forgiveness. So where does one go in this day and age to ask for such forgiveness? To a church confessional? [...]
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15 Athletes on Santa’s Naughty List in 2012
Well, Christmas is just 4 days away now, and you know what that means: it’s time for Santa to finalize his lists of who was naughty this year and who was nice. Now, obviously the bearded one doesn’t like to make these lists public. However, it just so happens that I know a few Christmas [...]
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Lance Armstrong Tweeted a Big “F You” to His Critics Over The Weekend
Lance Armstrong has been accused of doping by practically every teammate he had during his unprecedented run of seven straight Tour de France titles. And of course, the United States Anti-Doping Agency has concluded that he doped, and that he bullied his teammates into doping. So they recommended that the International Cycling Union strip him [...]
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9 Disgraced Sports Heroes
We love turning sports stars into heroes. Is it fair or rational to do so? Maybe, maybe not. On the one hand, pro athletes are just people like you or me, the only difference being that they were born with innate abilities the rest of us don’t have. Why do we expect them to serve [...]
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Want To Know Why Nike Dropped Lance Armstrong? Watch This Commercial (Video)
If you still don’t want to believe the USADA’s doping allegations against Lance Armstrong because you think they’re just out to get him, and if you don’t want to believe pretty much all of his former teammates who’ve said, “yes, he doped like it was going out of style,” then maybe you’ll believe Nike. Yesterday, [...]
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Lance Armstrong To Be Stripped Of His 7 Tour De France Titles For Doping
So did Lance Armstrong have to cheat to win all those Tour de France titles? Probably, yes. Though he’s been the subject of speculation and accusation for years, most of those claims seemed to come from angry Frenchman and jealous teammates. However, recently Armstrong has been the subject of a major investigation by the United [...]
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This Day In Sports History (July 25th) — Lance Armstrong
It was on this day in 2004 that Lance Armstrong won his sixth straight Tour de France title. With the win, he became the first rider to ever win six Yellow Jerseys. Riding for the US Postal Service team, Armstrong finished six minutes 19 seconds ahead of Germany’s Andreas Kloden. He would win a personal [...]
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This Day In Sports History (July 24th) — Lance Armstrong
It was on this day in 2005 that Lance Armstrong retired from the sport of cycling. He would call it a career after winning his seventh consecutive Tour de France. After leaving the Tour so that he could focus on his fight against cancer, Armstrong returned in 1999 to win his first Tour de France [...]
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15 Biggest Doping Scandals In Cycling History
With this being the heart of the cycling season—we’re in between the Giro d’Italia and the Tour France—and with everyone’s favorite one-testicled bracelet salesman (Lance Armstrong) making headlines in sports pages again, I thought this would be the perfect time to do a list of cycling’s biggest doping scandals. But here’s the thing. It turns [...]
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13 Hilarious Will Ferrell Sports Moments (Videos)
The other night in New Orleans, Will Ferrell randomly showed up at a matchup between the Hornets’ and Chicago Bulls to do the pre-game player introductions. As you would expect, things quickly turned hilarious. Now, if it seems to you like Will Ferrell always seems to be making sports movies and turning up at some [...]
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25 Most-Followed Athletes On Twitter
In the sports world, Twitter has become a powerful promotional tool. While some athletes just use Twitter to “connect” with their fans, it seems that most are just trying to build a big following so they can get more lucrative endorsement deals. Today Total Pro Sports brings you a list of the 25 most-followed athletes [...]
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9 Sports Record Holders Every Guy Should Know
There’s only so much room in our feeble human minds to retain all the knowledge we come across as sports fans. So how do we decide what to keep and what to throw out? That’s easy. Listen to us at TPS. There is no shortage of athletes who merit remembering, but since you can’t keep [...]
