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Cycling superstar Lance Armstrong earned his unprecedented seven victories in the Tour de France with the aid of a “sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program” on his racing team, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said today. Eleven former cyclists from the U.S. Postal... + read more

Cyclist Lance Armstrong’s recent fall from grace has been portrayed in books and news accounts as a thriller featuring teammate betrayals, motorcycle drug couriers and secret blood transfusions. But as the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency prepares to release an evidence dossier... + read more

Who knew that sportscaster Brent Musburger’s views on sports steroids are nearly as permissive as those of Victor Conte, the mastermind of the BALCO drug scandal? Musburger, whom ESPN calls “one of the most recognized and prominent voices in the history of sports television,... + read more

Charlie Francis, who died last week, was a renegade track coach. He was implicated in the Olympic movement’s two worst doping scandals – the steroid bust of Canadian sprint champion Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Games and BALCO in 2003. As a young man, Francis was a sprinter at... + read more

Some collegiate sports teams in California are up against tough times. Student athletes at UC Davis learned last week that the university would cut four sports teams in an effort to plug a $1.4 million deficit. The women's rowing, men's wrestling, men's indoor track, and men's swimming and... + read more

Steroids found their way into elite sports years before effective steroid tests were developed. Then, as the science of steroid detection geared up, drug-cheating athletes and their pharmaceutical advisers switched to new performance-enhancing substances. Always the quest was for a... + read more