Lance Armstrong

Baseball players say they want to clean up the game

2013-06-15 12:45:00

SEATTLE — When cyclist Lance Armstrong was found to have used performance-enhancing drugs last fall, he was publicly disgraced, stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport for life. When outfielder Melky Cabrera tested...

MLB drug scandal: Baseball still can't clean up its drug act

2013-06-07 09:39:00

Bud Selig, baseball's commissioner, declared the game's steroid era "clearly a thing of the past" and the use of banned performance-enhancing substances "virtually nonexistent." It was January 2010, and former home run champion Mark McGwire had just...

Elizabeth Taylor's first wedding dress to be sold at auction

2013-05-29 08:05:00

Elizabeth Taylor's first wedding dress -- the one she wore as an 18-year-old when she married Conrad Hilton Jr. in 1950 -- is slated to be sold at auction at Christie's in London on June 26. The gown, a gift to Taylor from MGM and designed by costume...

Nike cuts ties with cancer charity founded by Lance Armstrong

2013-05-28 09:14:00

Nike has already separated itself from Lance Armstrong, dropping its sponsorship of the disgraced cyclist in October after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency exposed him as the ringleader of a team doping program. Now the sports shoe and clothing company is...

Nike breaks ties with Livestrong months after Armstrong split

2013-05-28 09:49:00

A few months after severing its relationship to tainted cyclist Lance Armstrong, athletics gear giant Nike has dissolved its ties to Livestrong Foundation, the cancer charity he founded in 1997. In a statement Tuesday, officials at Livestrong –...

Voters oust Carmen Trutanich as city attorney

2013-05-21 23:45:00

Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich was defeated in his bid for reelection by former Assemblyman Mike Feuer. Trutanich announced his concession about 11:30 p.m. [Updated at 11:45 p.m. At Rocco's Tavern in Studio City, he thanked supporters and...

Feuer beats Trutanich; Galperin leading Zine

2013-05-22 00:40:00

After an especially contentious campaign, Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich conceded to challenger Mike Feuer late Tuesday, while attorney Ron Galperin was leading City Councilman Dennis Zine in partial returns for another citywide office,...

Cycling tries to put doping in the past

2013-05-10 17:50:00

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — They're trying. The cyclists and team managers participating in the eighth Amgen Tour of California gathered Friday at City Hall to speak about the future of the sport. Not the past. Please, not the past. At least there was...

Lance Armstrong scandal creates a mess in Spain

2013-05-03 11:41:00

The Lance Armstrong doping scandal continues to reverberate through Spain, where authorities have launched an investigation into several figures allegedly linked to the American cyclist. Prosecutors are looking at Spanish citizens mentioned in the U.S....

USADA chief: Lance Armstrong can implicate others in doping scandal

2013-04-25 11:04:00

Travis Tygart, who is the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, told a French government senate hearing Thursday that he wants Lance Armstrong to provide information detailing the alleged complicity of cycling's governing body, the International Cycling...

Dan Turner dies at 49; Times editorial writer

2013-03-30 21:45:00

Dan Turner, a Times editorial writer for nearly a decade who was known for his sharply witty observations on a broad range of subjects, died Saturday at his Los Angeles home. He was 49. The cause was pancreatic cancer, which was diagnosed two years ago,...

Lance Armstrong pulls out of swimming event after FINA objects

2013-04-04 10:18:00

Lance Armstrong won't be returning to competition this weekend after all. The disgraced former cyclist, who has been banned for life from all events sanctioned by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, decided not to take part in three distance events in the...

Nike cuts ties with Livestrong, the cancer charity founded by disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.

2013-05-28 09:43:05

Cyclist Lance Armstrong (L) addresses participants at The LIVESTRONG Challenge Ride as Doug Ulman (R), Livestrong President and CEO, looks on at Palmer Events Center on October 21, 2012 in Austin, Texas. More than 4,000 cyclists participated in the charity ride supporting cancer survivors.

2013-05-28 09:33:05

Trending on: National Twitter Why: Nike, which helped build Lance Armstrong's Livestrong cancer charity into a global brand and introduced its familiar yellow wristband, is cutting ties with the foundation in the latest fallout from the former cyclist's doping scandal.

2013-05-28 00:00:00