Lance Armstrong
CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes is refusing to issue an apology to Lance Armstrong about a story it ran alleging the seven-time Tour de France winner may have used performance-enhancing drugs, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
CBS News chairman and 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager issued a statement late Wednesday, calling the report "truthful, accurate and...
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Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong is retiring from cycling — this time for good, apparently.
"Never say never," Armstrong joked to The Associated Press on Tuesday. "Just kidding."
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Calling it "Retirement 2.0," the seven-time Tour de France champ said he will miss competing, but not the intense training that goes with it. "I can't say I have any regrets. It's been an excellent ride. I really thought I was going to win another [Tour de France]," Armstrong said of his 2009 comeback. "Then I lined up like everybody else and wound up third.
"I have no regrets about last year, either," he said of his 23rd-place finish. "The crashes, the problems with the bike — those were things that were beyond my control."
Armstrong retired in 2005 after winning his seventh straight Tour de France, but returned four years later, partially to raise ...
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Lance Armstrong has some new Twitter competition: his baby daughter.
The 39-year-old cyclist announced the birth of Olivia Marie Armstrong, but didn't give any specifics.
That said, Olivia already has a Twitter handle...
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Laura Ziskin
Laura Ziskin has a tough job — and not just as one of Hollywood's most successful producers.
Ziskin, a breast cancer survivor who produced the Spider-Man trilogy, Pretty Woman and the Academy Awards — twice — also co-created Stand Up to Cancer, a special that has to engage audiences while dealing with one of the most sensitive subjects imaginable.
"I joke that I have to make cancer entertaining," Ziskin tells TVGuide.com. "It's a tough challenge, but I'm up for it. And I can promise you our show will be entertaining."
Stand Up To Cancer fundraiser returning in September
Friday's telethon will focus on survivors — including celebrities who haven't spoken out ...
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Cancer survivors Christina Applegate and Maura Tierney will be among the cavalcade of stars appearing on next month's Stand Up to Cancer TV special.
And among the musical performances on the one-hour fundraiser will be an all-star collaboration led by....
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Conan O'Brien, Lance Armstrong
Conan O'Brien and Lance Armstrong engaged in the perhaps the mildest of all Twitter feuds.
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"Yesterday was the longest day of the year, unless you count the time I interviewed Lance Armstrong...
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Time for a new set of wheels: Lance Armstrong and his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, welcomed a son Thursday night, the seven-time Tour de France champion announced on Twitter.
Or rather, the new tyke did the honors himself. "Wassup, world? My name is ...
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At Monday's Boston Marathon, ex-cycling champ Lance Armstrong continued his impressive transition to the 26.2-mile footrace. In his third attempt at the distance Armstrong clocked in at 2 hour, 50 minutes, 58 seconds — a pace of 6:32 per mile — not far off his personal best of 2:46:43…New York Rangers tough-guy center Sean Avery will spend his summer vacation interning for Vogue. "Like most interns, the 28-year-old Avery will be expected to do traditional assistantlike tasks — making copies and messengering couture gowns, for instance," according to Women's Wear Daily. For now the aspiring fashionista continues to play in the NHL playoffs. The Rangers begin the second-round later this week…Dave Letterman is having a bit of sports themed week: On Wednesday Danica Patrick stops by Late Show (April 23, 11:35 pm/ET, CBS) to chat about becoming the first woman to win an Indy Car series race (which she did on Sunday at the Japan 200. On Thursday, recently retired ...
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Lance Armstrong will run 112th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 21. The seven-time Tour de France winner probably could have gotten into the 26.2-mile race based on his celeb status — as Katie Holmes reportedly has — but instead he did it the old-fashioned way: qualifying with an impressive time of two hours, 46 minutes, 43 seconds at the New York City Marathon last November. (The Boston Athletic Association, which organizes the race, is currently negotiating for a national TV broadcast.)....Turner Sports and the NBA are strengthening their relationship next season, with Turner set to take control of programming, marketing and technical operations of NBA TV, the league’s cable channel, as well as the league's websites, including nba.com and wnba.com. TNT's on-air talent will also appear on NBA TV....ESPN has big plans for college lacrosse this spring. ESPNU, the company's college-sports network, will kick off its season Saturday, Feb. 23, when defending NCAA champion ...
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Katharine McPhee has gotten engaged to Nick Cokas, an actor neither you nor I have heard of and who is almost 20 years her senior, People reports.... Sex and the City's Mr. Big, Chris Noth, is expecting a baby with girlfriend Tara Wilson, the New York Post says.... Despite protests from a woman claiming to be the child's (supposedly dead) birth mother, Angelina Jolie can keep 2-year-old Zahara, says the adoption agency that handled the transfer of the Ethiopian infant to her celebufamily.... OMG, Lance Armstrong, like, so doesn't like Ashley Olsen, y'know, like that. (Snicker, snicker.) "[We] are strictly friends," the biker boy tells the New York Post. "We have hung out.... And she strikes me as a nice, smart lady." Did you hear that, Ash? Nice and smart! No wonder his ex Sheryl Crow felt it necessary to announce that "his personal life... is none of my business." Ohhh, there's so gonna be a catfight after gym class! — Ben Katner
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