If you thought you had already received the last gift you’d be receiving this holiday season – you’re wrong! This week on the festive edition of 15 Minutes of Fame we’re looking at the latest NHL lockout news, the World Juniors, a big trade by the Blue Jays & a couple of notes from the NFL!
In the GABBYs: Santa Claus, Arian Foster, Lance Armstrong, Russian soccer fans, the Spengler Cup & Aston Villa. The Punchline this week is Philadelphia 76ers coach Doug Collins!
MEANWHILE: Since we are feeling generous (and didn’t end up getting last week’s video up in time), here is a second dose of 15MOF!
This week on the show we talk about some big news from the Edmonton Eskimos and examine their chances in the playoffs, and we discuss the latest CBA news and look at how the young guns of the Edmonton Oilers are doing down in OKC. As well, some UFC talk with a possible women’s division and two more failed drug tests after UFC 153.
In the GABBYs: Justin Schultz, JC Sherritt, Jon Cornish, Luis Suarez, Lance Armstrong, soccer fans and the Chomutov Pirates.
This week on 15MOF we look at the latest developments in the Lance Armstrong doping investigation and try to figure out who to believe, we check up on the latest NHL collective bargaining negotiations and we look at a couple of big stories out of the UFC, including one involving Georges St. Pierre.
In the GABBYs: Roger Clemens, Bill “Spaceman” Lee, a baseball baby, Oklahoma City schools, Danica Patrick and Bartolo Colon. The Punchline this week is the San Francisco Giants!
Lance Armstrong will no longer be in the Tour de France record books.
According to ESPN, Armstrong will be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles from 1999-2005 on Friday. Considered one of the top American athletes of the 20th century, Armstrong will now be in the same category as Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire instead of Michael Jordan and Jack Nicklaus.
Armstrong also received a lifetime ban in cycling from the United States Anti-Doping Agency and can no longer participate as an athlete, coach or owner in a sport that uses the USADA code. The International Cycling Union has an opportunity to appeal USADA’s decision, but are unlikely to do so because Armstrong is not planning to take the charges against him to arbitration.
This week on the show, we recap the NHL playoffs, make a couple of NHL Award show predictions and discuss who should go first overall at the upcoming draft. As well, the latest on the Pacquiao/Bradley boxing controversy and Lance Armstrong is facing doping charges.
In the GABBYs: Matt Cain, Alex Rodriguez, Nik Wallenda, KTLA, Croatian soccer fans & Aubrey Huff. The Punchline this week is Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Alberto Contador (Felix Arellano, Wikimedia Commons)
The image of professional cycling continues to get worse.
On Monday, the International Cycling Union (UCI) banned one of the top cyclists in the world for two years.
Spain’s Alberto Contador has also been stripped of his 2010 Tour de France Championship for testing positive for clenbuterol in July, 2010. Contador will still be allowed to keep his 2007 and 2009 Tour de France victories.
Contador blamed the positive test on contaminated meat he had consumed.
The new winner of the 2010 Tour de France is Andy Schleck of Luxembourg. Cadel Evans of Australia was the 2011 Tour de France Champion.
According to the Associated Press, the ruling came three days after American great Lance Armstrong was cleared for taking illegal substances. Armstrong was cleared by the United States federal authorities after they dropped an investigation into doping involving his teams.
The World Anti-Doping Agency meanwhile praised the Court of Arbitration for Sport for suspending Contador and continues to support the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s continued investigation of Armstrong.
Canada and the United States have something in common.
We each have an outstanding athlete with the last name of Armstrong. They have the old cyclist named Lance. We have the shot putter who is close to Olympic glory named Dylan.
On the weekend, Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops, British Columbia won a Diamond League competition in Birmingham, England, by posting a throw of 21.55 meters. The 2008 Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski of Poland finished second with a throw of 20.9 meters, while the 2009 World Champion Christian Cantwell of the United States finished third with a throw of 20.86 meters.
Armstrong has won three of the four Diamond League competitions in 2011. He won in Rome and Doha earlier in the year. Cantwell won the only other Diamond League competition in Lucerne, Switzerland on June 30.
Armstrong leads the Diamond League Standings with 12 points. Cantwell and Majewski are tied for second with five points. Armstrong’s throw of 22.21 meters at the Canadian Track and Field Championships in Calgary on June 25 continues to be a world best for all shot putters in 2011.
The next competition is in Monaco on July 22. The World Track and Field Championships in men’s shot put goes at 4am Mountain Time on September 2 from Daegu, South Korea.
In the men’s 100m dash, Asafa Powell of Jamaica had a time of 9.91 seconds to beat countryman Nesta Carter by 0.02 seconds.
On May 22, in the most interesting televised interview of the year, cyclist Tyler Hamilton told 60 minutes that the International Cycling Union helped Lance Armstrong, a seven-time winner of the Tour de France, hide a positive test at the 2001 Tour de Suisse.
Armstrong, who has denied ever taking illegal substances, claims he has passed every drug test he has ever taken, and his lawyers have demanded an on-air apology.
But I don’t think 60 Minutes needs to apologize because I believe their report was extremely well done.
The report does however, put Armstrong in a significantly negative light.
It’s time for another 15 Minutes of Fame video for your enjoyment.
This week, the boys talk about the rash of concussions NHL players seem to be playing with. Is it an issue with the players? With management? With NHL team’s medical staff?
They then talk about all of the players begging out of the NHL All-Star game next week. Then they talk about the NHL scandal of the week – LA Kings GM Dean Lombardi coming out against NHL VP Mike Murphy and getting fined for it. They finish the first stage of the video with more rumours about Lance Armstrong’s doping.
In this week’s GABBYs, first the good: The NHL Sabre’s Nathan Gerbe scores two goals in five seconds. Vernon Wells is dealt to the LA Angels and Saku Koivu makes his return to Montreal.
On the bad side, the woes of the Ottawa Senators, The National Lacrosse League’s Boston Blazers’s lap dance half-time show and yet another scandal involving Brett Favre.
In Quick Hits: Peter Forsberg practices with the Colorado Avalanche, Evgeni Nabakov won’t report to the New York Islanders and Jim and I are hosting a sports hot stove.
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Did you hear what happened last week in the National Lacrosse League?
The Boston Blazers brass are a little red in the face after a halftime production drew some bad press from everyone but “Scorch,” the team’s mascot. Personally I don’t know what all the fuss is about – what says “fun for the whole family” like a “best lap dance” contest?
That’s right! Three female contestants from the crowd squared off during the break at the TD Garden in Boston to see who could give “Scorch” the best lap dance, as an arena full of parents and kids looked on. (more…)
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