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Report: Pacers Had Fistfight Before Game 1
Adrian Wojnarowski goes out of his way to downplay a practice fight between Lance Stephenson and Evan Turner as something normal for the close quarters of an NBA team, but that's not going to stop observers from pointing to it as one symptom—or possible cause—of the Pacers' precipitous decline....

Saints Charity Cruise Features Two Cut Players And An Alleged Rapist
The first Saints Ahoy Celebrity Fan Cruise, scheduled for March 13-17, probably sounded great when it was planned back in October. But right now, the guest list looks a lot worse....

The Eternal Martyrdom Of Lance Armstrong
The following is excerpted from Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong (HarperCollins), which is available now on Amazon....

Lance Stephenson Leaves Game After Making Impressive But Dangerous Shot
Lance Stephenson's writhing layup probably wasn't worth the two points—and the foul—but it was fun to watch. You can't tell if the crowd is saying "Ohhh" for the shot or his fall. Thankfully, Stephenson didn't look to be seriously hurt....

Lance Berkman is retiring at the age of 37. A .293/.406/.537 career hitter in the regular season, he posted an OPS of 1.084 in 50 World Series plate appearances with the Astros and Cardinals. His 1.65 World Series WPA is the third-highest of all time, behind only Charlie Keller and Lou Gehrig. [CBS ...

Lance Stephenson Lobbies For All-Star Votes With Crazy-Ass Video
Pacers shooting guard Lance Stephenson is currently enjoying a career year, and he would really appreciate it if NBA fans would recognize that accomplishment by sending him to the all-star game. ...

Alex Gibney And Betsy Andreu Are Here To Talk About <em>The Armstrong Lie</em>
Documentarian Alex Gibney, director of the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, has spent his career making films about corruption and the abuse of power. The project that eventually became The Armstrong Lie wasn't necessarily meant to be one of them. What had initially been a story about Armstrong'...

Lance Armstrong On The Moment He Decided To Start Doping
Behind all the overwrought drug war rhetoric that gets brought to bear on the subject of doping in sports, there are the simple calculations that Lance Armstrong lays out in this unused clip from the documentary The Armstrong Lie, which for all its brevity offers about the most precise explanation o...


Book Claims Sheryl Crow Watched Lance Armstrong Dope, Told Feds
Now that Lance Armstrong has been humbled and faced a defamation lawsuit or three, it's pretty much open season on the disgraced cyclist. Every allegation with even the slightest credibility can be brought without fear of retribution, and they very well might be true—Armstrong's got more than a deca...

Lance Armstrong Can Lie In His Autobiographies, Judge Rules
A federal judge has ruled in favor of Lance Armstrong, who is being sued by a group of people who purchased his books. They claim Armstrong committed fraud by writing that his successes were the result of hard work and perseverance, and not enough PEDs to send even the gentle dugong on a murderous r...

Lance Armstrong: The USPS Team Should Have Known I Was Doping
Lance Armstrong is facing a lawsuit claiming he defrauded team sponsor US Postal Service out of millions of dollars. Armstrong's lawyers have fired back, claiming the government shouldn't collect because it should have seen all those media reports about Armstrong doping....

Lance Armstrong: Tour De France "Impossible To Win Without Doping"
It's a whole new Lance! A "nothing left to lose" Lance. An "I'm a scoundrel, like all the rest" Lance. An "I don't need or want your fucking love" Lance. And he's here to drop some truth bombs....

Lance Stephenson Is Pulling A Miami Heat On The Miami Heat
The Indiana Pacers are up at halftime over the Miami Heat, 48-47, in the fourth game of the Eastern Conference Finals. This is your open thread. Knock yourselves out....

Nike Cuts Ties With Livestrong
The plucky wristband-manufacturer (and cancer-awareness-raiser), has lost its second benefactor in less than a year: with Lance Armstrong already out of the picture, Nike has decided to end its nine-year partnership with Livestrong....

Comedian Says Lance Armstrong Asked Her To Eat His Butt
Comedian April Macie is a frequent guest on the Howard Stern Show, and on Monday morning she joined Stern to dish some gossip about disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. Specifically, she told Stern that Armstrong once asked her to lick his butt in a hotel bathroom....