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(\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/62862496@N04/sets/72157628179634073/\">Deborah Svoboda\u003c/a>/KQED)\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/25/news-pix-oakland-shootings-humanized-lgbt-band-at-inauguration-richmond-basketball-win/band/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87240\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87240\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/band.jpg\" alt=\"band\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>Drum major Kim Boyd leads members of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band during practice Jan. 12 in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"http://inaugblog.com/band.html\">Boyd and his band mates marched with the Lesbian and Gay Band Association \u003c/a>in Monday's Inauguration Parade in Washington D.C. 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But it's worth it.\" (Tyler Orsburn / \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/25/news-pix-oakland-shootings-humanized-lgbt-band-at-inauguration-richmond-basketball-win/photoweek130125barnowl/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87246\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87246\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130125barnowl.gif\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130125barnowl\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>In 2003, in what may be the least controversial Berkeley City Council resolution ever passed, the b\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/01/23/how-the-predatory-barn-owl-became-berkeleys-official-bird/\">arn owl was designated as the city’s official bird\u003c/a>. One of the reasons is that barn owls make great rodent controllers: one family of barn owls can consume 600 mice in 10 weeks. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Maloof family, the majority owners of the Sacramento Kings basketball team, have \u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8864092/sacramento-kings-owners-reach-agreement-seattle-group-buy-team-sources-say\">struck a deal\u003c/a> to sell the team to a group that would move it to Seattle. But Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson says his city won't give up so easily. The NBA must approve any deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86503\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/21/owners-agree-to-sell-kings-basketball-team-to-seattle-group/los-angeles-lakers-v-sacramento-kings/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86503\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86503\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Sacramento-Kings-Sign-0428-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Fans have campaigned to keep the Kings basketball team in Sacramento. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans have campaigned to keep the Kings basketball team in Sacramento. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who was a three-time All Star in his 12 years in the NBA, told \u003ca href=\"http://natomas.news10.net/news/news/109860-sacramento-kings-playtowin-campaign-gets-19m-down-payment\">a press conference\u003c/a> Tuesday afternoon that he has commitments from \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/city-beat/2013/01/investors-to-give-1-million-each-to-buy-sacramento-kings.html\">19 local investors\u003c/a> to put in a million dollars apiece to buy the team and keep it in the state capital. (After the press conference, Ryan Lillis of the Sacramento Bee tweeted that Johnson has secured a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ryan_Lillis/status/293873493727137792\" target=\"_blank\">twentieth investor\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>$20 million's a drop in the basket against the $340 million that the Maloofs have been offered by the Seattle group, but Johnson says he has at least one big-money investor – he refers to them as “whales” – who will be firmed up in the next week or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/23/5134027/sacramento-mayor-johnson-discloses.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday\u003c/a> that the \"whales\" might be Ron Burkle, a billionaire who is co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey club, and Mark Mastrov, the founder of the 24 Hour Fitness chain. Both have previously expressed an interest in the team. The Bee says they would not only buy the Kings, but also be involved in financing a new arena. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Ham writes about the Kings for NBA.com and the blog \u003ca href=\"http://www.cowbellkingdom.com/\">Cowbell Kingdom\u003c/a>, and co-produced a film about the team and its famously loyal fan base called “\u003ca href=\"http://smallmarketbigheart.com/\">Small Market, Big Heart.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor’s office was working on this long before the Seattle news came out,” he said after the press conference. “This has always been a possibility, that the Maloofs would decide to sell. I think that Sacramento and the mayor himself thought the Maloof family would have enough respect for all of the support and financial backing that this community has given them, to at least make Sacramento part of the conversation. Instead, they completely circumvented the mayor and just went straight to Seattle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle’s old NBA franchise, the SuperSonics, was bought by Oklahoma City investors in 2008 and became the Oklahoma City Thunder. Sonics fans have been longing for a new basketball team ever since. Ham says while Sacramento’s the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> largest TV market in the U.S. and Seattle’s the 12\u003csup>th \u003c/sup>largest, it isn’t a slam dunk that Seattle would be a better venue for the NBA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the Seattle market, they have professional baseball, football, and soccer, and they may end up with a professional hockey team. That’s a lot of major league sports to not just divert fans, but support from the business community. In Sacramento, [the Kings] are the only game in town, and it’s always been that way. In the history of the two franchises, Sacramento had better attendance than Seattle in almost every season that the two teams existed at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the effort to keep the Kings \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=226217\" target=\"_blank\">gained an unlikely champion\u003c/a> on Tuesday. State Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg sent a letter to the state’s department of general services, suggesting that if the move to Seattle goes through, California might want to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2013/1/22/3903864/fight-to-keep-kings-in-sacramento-gets-political\">re-evaluate its purchase\u003c/a> of Microsoft products and services. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is one of the principals of the Seattle group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some less well-known fans have made a \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZYfVc2uoUGU\">music video\u003c/a> in support of the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NBA makes the final decision, and they've said they will listen to both cities. Presentations will likely take place in March.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The arena also faces a pair of lawsuits, including one from a longshore workers union because the arena is being built close to port and industrial operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen's group is expected to pitch in $290 million in private investment toward the arena, along with helping to pay for transportation improvements in the area around the stadiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plans also call for the arena to be able to handle a future NHL franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining $200 million in public financing would be paid back with rent money and admissions taxes from the arena, and if that money falls short, Hansen would be responsible for making up the rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other investors in the proposed arena include Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and two members of the Nordstrom department store family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen's goal has been to return the SuperSonics to the Puget Sound after they were moved from Seattle to Oklahoma City in 2008. Asked in September if he could envision a team being in Seattle for the 2013 season, Hansen was cautious about finding an option that quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings' sale price would top the NBA-record $450 million the Golden State Warriors sold for in July 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we are not at liberty to discuss the terms of the transaction or our plans for the franchise given the confidential nature of the agreement and NBA regulations regarding public comments during a pending transaction, we would just like to extend our sincerest compliments and gratitude toward the Maloof family,\" Hansen said in a statement. \"Our negotiations with the family were handled with the utmost honor and professionalism and we hope to continue their legacy and be great stewards of this NBA franchise in the coming years and decades.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn added, \"While there is more work ahead, this is a major step toward bringing the Sonics home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brothers Joe, Gavin and George Maloof bought controlling interests in the franchise from Los Angeles-based developer Jim Thomas in 1999. The Maloofs, who have long waited for an upgrade to the team's outdated arena, backed out of a tentative $391 million deal for a new downtown building with Sacramento last year, reigniting fears the franchise could relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and the Kings broke off all negotiations in the summer, with the team's owners saying the deal didn't make financial sense for the franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the Kings appeared determined to move to Anaheim before Johnson convinced the NBA to give the city one last chance to help finance an arena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Johnson seemed so certain the team was gone he called the process a \"slow death\" and compared the city's efforts to keep the Kings a \"Hail Mary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson made a pitch to the NBA Board of Governors in April 2011, promising league owners the city would find a way to help finance a new arena to replace the team's current outdated suburban facility. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86197\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 193px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/lancetwo20130118.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86197\" title=\"lancetwo20130118\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/lancetwo20130118-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Armstrong competes in the 2010 Tour de France. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.\" width=\"193\" height=\"259\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lance Armstrong competes in the 2010 Tour de France. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CHICAGO (AP) — Lance Armstrong finally cracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not while expressing deep remorse or regrets, though there was plenty of that in Friday night's second part of Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't over the $75 million in sponsorship deals that evaporated over the course of two days, or having to walk away from the Livestrong cancer charity he founded and called his \"sixth child.\" It wasn't even about his lifetime ban from competition, though he said that was more than he deserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was another bit of collateral damage that Armstrong said he wasn't prepared to deal with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw my son defending me and saying, 'That's not true. What you're saying about my dad is not true,'\" Armstrong recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I knew I had to tell him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/OWN/videos?sort=dd&view=0&flow=grid\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Clips from Parts 1 and 2\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/17/watch-oprahs-interview-with-lance-armstrong-live-online/\" target=\"_blank\">What Armstrong said on Wednesday night\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/17/a-portrait-of-lance-armstrong-driven-to-win-at-any-cost/\" target=\"_blank\">Lance Armstrong: 'A Myth That Kept Rolling Down the Tracks'\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Armstrong was near tears at that point, referring to 13-year-old Luke, the oldest of his five children. He blinked, looked away from Winfrey, and with his lip trembling, struggled to compose himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It came just past the midpoint of the hourlong program on Winfrey's OWN network. In the first part, broadcast Thursday, the disgraced cycling champion admitted using performance-enhancing drugs when he won seven straight Tour de France titles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said he hadn't been contrite enough in the first half of the interview, which was taped Monday in Austin, but Armstrong seemed to lose his composure when Winfrey zeroed in on the emotional drama involving his personal life. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What did you say?\" Winfrey asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'Listen, there's been a lot of questions about your dad. My career. Whether I doped or did not dope. I've always denied that and I've always been ruthless and defiant about that. You guys have seen that. That's probably why you trusted me on it.' Which makes it even sicker,\" Armstrong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And uh, I told Luke, I said,\" and here Armstrong paused for a long time to collect himself, \"I said, 'Don't defend me anymore. Don't.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He said OK. He just said, 'Look, I love you. You're my dad. This won't change that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey also drew Armstrong out on his ex-wife, Kristin, whom he claimed knew just enough about both the doping and lying to ask him to stop. He credited her with making him promise that his comeback in 2009 would be drug-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said to me, 'You can do it under one condition: That you never cross that line again,'\" Armstrong recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The line of drugs?\" Winfrey asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes. And I said, 'You've got a deal,'\" he replied. \"And I never would have betrayed that with her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that exposed Armstrong as the leader of an elaborate doping scheme on his U.S. Postal Service cycling team included witness statements from at least three former teammates who said Kristin Armstrong participated in or at least knew about doping on the teams and knew team code names for EPO kept in her refrigerator. Postal rider Jonathan Vaughters testified that she handed riders cortisone pills wrapped in foil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong said in the first part of the interview that he had stayed clean in the comeback, a claim that runs counter to the USADA report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that wasn't the only portion of the interview likely to rile anti-doping officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey asked Armstrong about a \"60 Minutes Sports\" interview in which USADA chief executive Travis Tygart said a representative of the cyclist had offered a donation that the agency turned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Were you trying to pay off USADA?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, that's not true,\" he replied, repeating, \"That is not true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey asks the question three more times, in different forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is not true,\" he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USADA spokeswoman Annie Skinner replied in a statement: \"We stand by the facts both in the reasoned decision and in the '60 Minutes' interview.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong has talked with USADA officials, and a meeting with Tygart near the Denver airport reportedly ended in an argument over the possibility of modifying the lifetime ban. A person familiar with those conversations said Armstrong could provide information that might get his ban reduced to eight years. By then, he would be 49. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing a confidential matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After retiring from cycling in 2011, Armstrong returned to triathlons, where he began his professional career as a teenager, and he has told people he's desperate to get back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey asked if that was why he agreed to the interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're asking me, do I want to compete again ... the answer is hell, yes,\" Armstrong said. \"I'm a competitor. It's what I've done my whole life. I love to train. I love to race. I love to toe the line — and I don't expect it to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet just three questions later, a flash of the old Armstrong emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly,\" he said, \"this may not be the most popular answer, but I think I deserve it. Maybe not right now ... (but) if I could go back to that time and say, 'OK, you're trading my story for a six-month suspension?' Because that's what people got.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What other people got?\" Winfrey asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What everybody got,\" he replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven former Armstrong teammates, including several who previously tested positive for PEDs, testified about the USPS team's doping scheme in exchange for more lenient punishments. Armstrong said in the first part of the interview that he knew his \"fate was sealed\" when his most trusted lieutenant, George Hincapie, who was alongside him for all seven Tour wins between 1999-2005, was forced to give Armstrong up to anti-doping authorities,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I got a death penalty and they got ... six months,\" Armstrong resumed. \"I'm not saying that that's unfair, necessarily, but I'm saying it's different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong said the most \"humbling\" moment in the aftermath of the USADA report was leaving Livestrong lest his association damage the foundation's ability to raise money and continue its advocacy programs on behalf of cancer victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally called the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the cyclist created it the year after he was diagnosed with a form of testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs. Doctors gave him 50-50 odds of surviving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't at all say forced out, told to leave,\" he said of Livestrong. \"I was aware of the pressure. But it hurt like hell. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was the lowest,\" Armstrong said. \"The lowest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong's personal fortune had sustained a big hit days earlier. One by one, his sponsors called to end their associations with him: Nike; Trek Bicycles; Giro, which manufactures cycling helmets and other accessories; Anheuser-Busch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was a $75 million day,\" Armstrong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That just went out of your life,\" Winfrey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Gone?\" Winfrey repeated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Gone,\" he replied, \"and probably never coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So was there a moral to his story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can look at what I did,\" he said. \"Cheating to win bike races, lying about it, bullying people. Of course, you're not supposed to do those things. That's what we teach our children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong paused to compose himself before a final mea culpa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just think it was about the ride and losing myself, getting caught up in that, and doing all those things along the way that enabled that,\" he said. \"The ultimate crime is, uh, is the betrayal of those people that supported me and believed in me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They got lied to.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He blinked, looked away from Winfrey, and with his lip trembling, struggled to compose himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It came just past the midpoint of the hourlong program on Winfrey's OWN network. In the first part, broadcast Thursday, the disgraced cycling champion admitted using performance-enhancing drugs when he won seven straight Tour de France titles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said he hadn't been contrite enough in the first half of the interview, which was taped Monday in Austin, but Armstrong seemed to lose his composure when Winfrey zeroed in on the emotional drama involving his personal life. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What did you say?\" Winfrey asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'Listen, there's been a lot of questions about your dad. My career. Whether I doped or did not dope. I've always denied that and I've always been ruthless and defiant about that. You guys have seen that. That's probably why you trusted me on it.' Which makes it even sicker,\" Armstrong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And uh, I told Luke, I said,\" and here Armstrong paused for a long time to collect himself, \"I said, 'Don't defend me anymore. Don't.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He said OK. He just said, 'Look, I love you. You're my dad. This won't change that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey also drew Armstrong out on his ex-wife, Kristin, whom he claimed knew just enough about both the doping and lying to ask him to stop. He credited her with making him promise that his comeback in 2009 would be drug-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said to me, 'You can do it under one condition: That you never cross that line again,'\" Armstrong recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The line of drugs?\" Winfrey asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes. And I said, 'You've got a deal,'\" he replied. \"And I never would have betrayed that with her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that exposed Armstrong as the leader of an elaborate doping scheme on his U.S. Postal Service cycling team included witness statements from at least three former teammates who said Kristin Armstrong participated in or at least knew about doping on the teams and knew team code names for EPO kept in her refrigerator. Postal rider Jonathan Vaughters testified that she handed riders cortisone pills wrapped in foil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong said in the first part of the interview that he had stayed clean in the comeback, a claim that runs counter to the USADA report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that wasn't the only portion of the interview likely to rile anti-doping officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey asked Armstrong about a \"60 Minutes Sports\" interview in which USADA chief executive Travis Tygart said a representative of the cyclist had offered a donation that the agency turned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Were you trying to pay off USADA?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, that's not true,\" he replied, repeating, \"That is not true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey asks the question three more times, in different forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is not true,\" he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USADA spokeswoman Annie Skinner replied in a statement: \"We stand by the facts both in the reasoned decision and in the '60 Minutes' interview.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong has talked with USADA officials, and a meeting with Tygart near the Denver airport reportedly ended in an argument over the possibility of modifying the lifetime ban. A person familiar with those conversations said Armstrong could provide information that might get his ban reduced to eight years. By then, he would be 49. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing a confidential matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After retiring from cycling in 2011, Armstrong returned to triathlons, where he began his professional career as a teenager, and he has told people he's desperate to get back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey asked if that was why he agreed to the interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're asking me, do I want to compete again ... the answer is hell, yes,\" Armstrong said. \"I'm a competitor. It's what I've done my whole life. I love to train. I love to race. I love to toe the line — and I don't expect it to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet just three questions later, a flash of the old Armstrong emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly,\" he said, \"this may not be the most popular answer, but I think I deserve it. Maybe not right now ... (but) if I could go back to that time and say, 'OK, you're trading my story for a six-month suspension?' Because that's what people got.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What other people got?\" Winfrey asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What everybody got,\" he replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven former Armstrong teammates, including several who previously tested positive for PEDs, testified about the USPS team's doping scheme in exchange for more lenient punishments. Armstrong said in the first part of the interview that he knew his \"fate was sealed\" when his most trusted lieutenant, George Hincapie, who was alongside him for all seven Tour wins between 1999-2005, was forced to give Armstrong up to anti-doping authorities,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I got a death penalty and they got ... six months,\" Armstrong resumed. \"I'm not saying that that's unfair, necessarily, but I'm saying it's different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong said the most \"humbling\" moment in the aftermath of the USADA report was leaving Livestrong lest his association damage the foundation's ability to raise money and continue its advocacy programs on behalf of cancer victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally called the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the cyclist created it the year after he was diagnosed with a form of testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs. 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Here are clips from the interview, starting with Armstrong's confessions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/N_0PSZ59Aws\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this clip he talks more about the drugs he used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/tNTtzOOYqdI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(AP) He was light on the details and didn't name names. He mused that he might not have been caught if not for his comeback in 2009. And he was certain his \"fate was sealed\" when longtime friend, training partner and trusted lieutenant George Hincapie, who was along for the ride on all seven of Armstrong's Tour de France wins from 1999-2005, was forced to give him up to anti-doping authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/OWN/videos?sort=dd&view=0&flow=grid\">More clips from the interview\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/17/a-portrait-of-lance-armstrong-driven-to-win-at-any-cost/\">\u003cstrong>Lance Armstrong: 'A Myth That Kept Rolling Down the Tracks'\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (KQED Forum)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But right from the start and more than two dozen times during the first of a two-part interview Thursday night with Oprah Winfrey on her OWN network, the disgraced former cycling champion acknowledged what he had lied about repeatedly for years, and what had been one of the worst-kept secrets for the better part of a week: He was the ringleader of an elaborate doping scheme on a U.S. Postal Service team that swept him to the top of the podium at the Tour de France time after time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a flawed character,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did it feel wrong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" Armstrong replied. \"Scary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you feel bad about it?\" Winfrey pressed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" he said. \"Even scarier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you feel in any way that you were cheating?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" Armstrong paused. \"Scariest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went and looked up the definition of cheat,\" he added a moment later. \"And the definition is to gain an advantage on a rival or foe. I didn't view it that way. I viewed it as a level playing field.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a blue blazer and open-neck shirt, Armstrong was direct and matter-of-fact, neither pained nor defensive. He looked straight ahead. There were no tears and very few laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dodged few questions and refused to implicate anyone else, even as he said it was humanly impossible to win seven straight Tours without doping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not comfortable talking about other people,\" Armstrong said. \"I don't want to accuse anybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether his televised confession will help or hurt Armstrong's bruised reputation and his already-tenuous defense in at least two pending lawsuits, and possibly a third, remains to be seen. Either way, a story that seemed too good to be true — cancer survivor returns to win one of sport's most grueling events seven times in a row — was revealed to be just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This story was so perfect for so long. It's this myth, this perfect story, and it wasn't true,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey got right to the point when the interview began, asking for yes-or-no answers to five questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Armstrong take banned substances? \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was one of those EPO? \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did he do blood doping and use transfusions? \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did he use testosterone, cortisone and human growth hormone? \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did he take banned substances or blood dope in all his Tour wins? \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 211px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/armstrong20130118.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/armstrong20130118-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Armstrong raises the Tour de France trophy in 1999. 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And when I say there are people who will hear this and never forgive me, I understand that. I do...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That defiance, that attitude, that arrogance, you cannot deny it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong said he started doping in mid-1990s but didn't when he finished third in his comeback attempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-doping officials have said nothing short of a confession under oath — \"not talking to a talk-show host,\" is how World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman put it — could prompt a reconsideration of Armstrong's lifetime ban from sanctioned events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's also had discussions with officials at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, whose 1,000-page report in October included testimony from nearly a dozen former teammates and led to stripping Armstrong of his Tour titles. Shortly after, he lost nearly all his endorsements and was forced to walk away from the Livestrong cancer charity he founded in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong could provide information that might get his ban reduced to eight years. By then, he would be 49. He returned to triathlons, where he began his professional career as a teenager, after retiring from cycling in 2011, and has told people he's desperate to get back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USADA chief Travis Tygart, who pursued the case against Armstrong when others had stopped, said the cyclist's confession was just a start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tonight, Lance Armstrong finally acknowledged that his cycling career was built on a powerful combination of doping and deceit,\" Tygart said. \"His admission that he doped throughout his career is a small step in the right direction. But if he is sincere in his desire to correct his past mistakes, he will testify under oath about the full extent of his doping activities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Livestrong issued a statement that said the charity was \"disappointed by the news that Lance Armstrong misled people during and after his cycling career, including us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Earlier this week, Lance apologized to our staff and we accepted his apology in order to move on and chart a strong, independent course,\" it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interview revealed very few details about Armstrong's performance-enhancing regimen that would surprise anti-doping officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86197\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 223px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/lancetwo20130118.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/lancetwo20130118-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Armstrong competes in the 2010 Tour de France. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.\" title=\"lancetwo20130118\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86197\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lance Armstrong competes in the 2010 Tour de France. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What he called \"my cocktail\" contained the steroid testosterone and the blood-booster erythropoetein, or EPO, \"but not a lot,\" Armstrong said. That was on top of blood-doping, which involved removing his own blood and weeks later re-injecting it into his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of it was designed to build strength and endurance, but it became so routine that Armstrong described it as \"like saying we have to have air in our tires or water in our bottles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was, in my view, part of the job,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong was evasive, or begged off entirely, when Winfrey tried to connect his use to others who aided or abetted the performance-enhancing scheme on the USPS team\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she asked him about Italian doctor Michele Ferrari, who was implicated in doping-related scrapes and has also been banned from cycling for life, Armstrong relied, \"It's hard to talk about some of these things and not mention names. There are people in this story, they're good people and we've all made mistakes ... they're not monsters, not toxic and not evil, and I viewed Michele Ferrari as a good man and smart man and still do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's nearly all Armstrong would say about the physician that some reports have suggested educated the cyclist about doping and looked after other aspects of his training program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was almost as reluctant to discuss claims by former teammates Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis that Armstrong told them, separately, that he tested positive during the 2001 Tour de Suisse and conspired with officials of the International Cycling Union officials to cover it up — in exchange for a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That story wasn't true. There was no positive test, no paying off of the labs. There was no secret meeting with the lab director,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey pressed him again, asking if the money he donated wasn't part of a tit-for-tat agreement, \"Why make it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because they asked me to,\" Armstrong began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is impossible for me to answer and have anybody believe it,\" he said. \"It was not in exchange for any cover-up. ... I have every incentive here to tell you 'yes.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, he summed up the entire episode this way: \"I was retired. ... They needed money.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this clip he talks more about the drugs he used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/tNTtzOOYqdI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(AP) He was light on the details and didn't name names. He mused that he might not have been caught if not for his comeback in 2009. And he was certain his \"fate was sealed\" when longtime friend, training partner and trusted lieutenant George Hincapie, who was along for the ride on all seven of Armstrong's Tour de France wins from 1999-2005, was forced to give him up to anti-doping authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/OWN/videos?sort=dd&view=0&flow=grid\">More clips from the interview\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/17/a-portrait-of-lance-armstrong-driven-to-win-at-any-cost/\">\u003cstrong>Lance Armstrong: 'A Myth That Kept Rolling Down the Tracks'\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (KQED Forum)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But right from the start and more than two dozen times during the first of a two-part interview Thursday night with Oprah Winfrey on her OWN network, the disgraced former cycling champion acknowledged what he had lied about repeatedly for years, and what had been one of the worst-kept secrets for the better part of a week: He was the ringleader of an elaborate doping scheme on a U.S. Postal Service team that swept him to the top of the podium at the Tour de France time after time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a flawed character,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did it feel wrong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" Armstrong replied. \"Scary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you feel bad about it?\" Winfrey pressed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" he said. \"Even scarier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you feel in any way that you were cheating?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" Armstrong paused. \"Scariest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went and looked up the definition of cheat,\" he added a moment later. \"And the definition is to gain an advantage on a rival or foe. I didn't view it that way. I viewed it as a level playing field.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a blue blazer and open-neck shirt, Armstrong was direct and matter-of-fact, neither pained nor defensive. He looked straight ahead. There were no tears and very few laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dodged few questions and refused to implicate anyone else, even as he said it was humanly impossible to win seven straight Tours without doping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not comfortable talking about other people,\" Armstrong said. \"I don't want to accuse anybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether his televised confession will help or hurt Armstrong's bruised reputation and his already-tenuous defense in at least two pending lawsuits, and possibly a third, remains to be seen. Either way, a story that seemed too good to be true — cancer survivor returns to win one of sport's most grueling events seven times in a row — was revealed to be just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This story was so perfect for so long. It's this myth, this perfect story, and it wasn't true,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey got right to the point when the interview began, asking for yes-or-no answers to five questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Armstrong take banned substances? \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was one of those EPO? \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did he do blood doping and use transfusions? \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did he use testosterone, cortisone and human growth hormone? \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did he take banned substances or blood dope in all his Tour wins? \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 211px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/armstrong20130118.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/armstrong20130118-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Armstrong raises the Tour de France trophy in 1999. Photo by PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images.\" title=\"armstrong20130118\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86196\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lance Armstrong raises the Tour de France trophy in 1999. Photo by PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Armstrong cast aside teammates who questioned his tactics, yet swore he raced clean and tried to silence anyone who said otherwise. Ruthless and rich enough to settle any score, no place seemed beyond his reach — courtrooms, the court of public opinion, even along the roads of his sport's most prestigious race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That relentless pursuit was one of the things that Armstrong said he regretted most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I deserve this,\" he said twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a major flaw, and it's a guy who expected to get whatever he wanted and to control every outcome. And it's inexcusable. And when I say there are people who will hear this and never forgive me, I understand that. I do...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That defiance, that attitude, that arrogance, you cannot deny it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong said he started doping in mid-1990s but didn't when he finished third in his comeback attempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-doping officials have said nothing short of a confession under oath — \"not talking to a talk-show host,\" is how World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman put it — could prompt a reconsideration of Armstrong's lifetime ban from sanctioned events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's also had discussions with officials at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, whose 1,000-page report in October included testimony from nearly a dozen former teammates and led to stripping Armstrong of his Tour titles. Shortly after, he lost nearly all his endorsements and was forced to walk away from the Livestrong cancer charity he founded in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong could provide information that might get his ban reduced to eight years. By then, he would be 49. He returned to triathlons, where he began his professional career as a teenager, after retiring from cycling in 2011, and has told people he's desperate to get back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USADA chief Travis Tygart, who pursued the case against Armstrong when others had stopped, said the cyclist's confession was just a start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tonight, Lance Armstrong finally acknowledged that his cycling career was built on a powerful combination of doping and deceit,\" Tygart said. \"His admission that he doped throughout his career is a small step in the right direction. But if he is sincere in his desire to correct his past mistakes, he will testify under oath about the full extent of his doping activities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Livestrong issued a statement that said the charity was \"disappointed by the news that Lance Armstrong misled people during and after his cycling career, including us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Earlier this week, Lance apologized to our staff and we accepted his apology in order to move on and chart a strong, independent course,\" it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interview revealed very few details about Armstrong's performance-enhancing regimen that would surprise anti-doping officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86197\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 223px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/lancetwo20130118.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/lancetwo20130118-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Armstrong competes in the 2010 Tour de France. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/17/watch-oprahs-interview-with-lance-armstrong-live-online/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Video: Armstrong admits to doping in interview w/ Oprah Winfrey\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The first half of Oprah Winfrey’s much-anticipated interview with Lance Armstrong aired Thursday night. Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs while winning his record seven straight Tours de France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong’s admissions, which came after years of denials, are stirring conversation inside and outside the world of sports, including on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301160900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>, which on Wednesday featured Daniel Coyle, coauthor of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345530411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs\u003c/a>.” Coyle described Armstrong as “a kind of Tony Soprano character”–the one who orchestrated his teams’ doping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Video: Armstrong’s public denials over the years\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Zad68VOxr8g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s the one who had the best connections, he was the one who made the decisions, he was the one who decided what they were gonna do, worked out the program, hired the doctor,” said Coyle. “So for him to say that ‘I was just simply going along,’ is not true.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyle said Armstrong was able to shut down the media, even after working openly with Dr. Michele Ferrari, an Italian physician widely suspected of being a doping mastermind.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Armstrong shut down the media … and ‘the myth kept rolling down the tracks.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Coyle said Armstrong’s open relationship with \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Ferrari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferrari\u003c/a> “sent a big message. But so powerful was Armstrong at that point, and so powerful was the myth, that it sort of wasn’t really investigated. Armstrong fought back. In a famous press conference, he had a confrontation with (investigative reporter \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/article1192199.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Walsh\u003c/a>) where he said ‘Are you calling me a doper or are you calling me a liar?’ And with that aggression, with his ability to try to control the press, with the press’s unwillingness or inability to dig beneath that, the myth kept rolling down the tracks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Coyle, Armstrong’s doping saga–its intricacies, denials, and lawsuits–is a “perfect window in the way Lance’s mind works. A lot of people would say, and his lawyers would say, ‘Don’t put yourself at risk– it’s potentially tens, maybe even more, millions of dollars.’ But he looks at everything in a very binary way, he sees a path forward, he sees a goal and he just does it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyle also said he believes a unique set of character traits drove Armstrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends how much risk you want to take, how entrepreneurial you are, how aggressive you are, how competitive you are,” Coyle said. “Lance was a guy who ticked all those boxes, he was the guy who was built to succeed in this world, and who pushed it. It’s one thing to just dope because other guys are doing it. It’s another thing to say, ‘We’re going to invent the wheel every single year. We’re going to push it every year. We’re like Silicon Valley.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as much as Coyle views Armstrong as the doping ringleader on his teams, he is equally adamant that doping has been part of the culture of cycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not that much difference between what happens on Wall Street and what happened in cycling during that era,” said Coyle. “You have very little regulation, you have very competitive people. … It’s easy to lose your way, especially when you’re determined to win at all costs. You know, that’s a phrase that we throw around a lot, but cycling in that era, and this story, shows us exactly what that means.” According to Coyle, his co-author Tyler Hamilton–himself a disgraced cycling doper–estimates that “90 percent of the guys on the Tour were doing something [illegal].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, says Coyle, “It was an honor to dope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyle described Hamilton’s experience:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tyler [Hamilton] said that it felt like he was being picked for the A-team,” said Coyle. Hamilton says a friendly, white-haired doctor who had worked with champions told him, ” ‘You have to do this for your health. Don’t take this pill. Don’t take it tomorrow because you might get tested and get busted, but this will help you.’ And [Hamilton] did, and that was the start. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/teo20130116.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-85959\" title=\"teo20130116\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/teo20130116.jpg\" alt=\"Manti Te'o before the national championship game. Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images.\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manti Te'o before the 2013 National Championship Game. 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A detailed \u003ca href=\"http://deadspin.com/5976517/\">post\u003c/a> on the website Deadspin says Kekua may never have existed at all. \u003c!--more-->From Deadspin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the Stanford student newspaper... The Stanford registrar's office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NDFootball/posts/553537038009180\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page for Notre Dame football\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Dec. 26, Notre Dame coaches were informed by Manti Te’o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia. The University immediately initiated an investigation to assist Manti and his family in discovering the motive for and nature of this hoax. While the proper authorities will continue to investigate this troubling matter, this appears to be, at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8851033/story-manti-teo-girlfriend-death-apparently-hoax\">ESPN\u003c/a> reports that Te'o has released this statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. 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"content": "\u003cp>He was adamant. Outraged. Indignant. In his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/17/video-lance-armstrong-discusses-doping-allegations-on-gavin-newsom-show/\">May 18 interview with Calif. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> on Current TV, cyclist Lance Armstrong denied taking performance enhancing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Thursday in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/15/lance-armstrong-san-francisco-gavin-newsom/#AP\">Armstrong is reversing himself,\u003c/a> Winfrey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before you watch Armstrong on Oprah, you might want to refresh your memory about just how strongly he denied the charges. “Somebody should lose their job over that,” he told Newsom. “I’m not wasting anymore of my time talking about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A confession could affect many of the people who were pulled along by Armstrong’s rise to the top of professional cycling. Among them is San Francisco financier Thomas Weisel, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/sports/story/glare-lance-armstrong-probe-falls-sf/print/\">according to Matt Smith and Lance Williams of the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lance Armstrong’s “no-holds-barred” interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday, when he’s expected to confess to the use of performance-enhancing drugs during his professional cycling career, comes as a federal probe into his finances has widened to focus on the man who bankrolled his champion teams: legendary San Francisco financier Thomas Weisel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents unsealed last month show that government investigators pursuing possible fraud claims against Armstrong have subpoenaed Weisel, founder of the Montgomery Securities investment firm and co-chairman of Stifel Financial Corp., the Center for Investigative Reporting has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the business world, Weisel, 71, is renowned for taking public such companies as Amgen and Yahoo. In sports, he is known as the founder, owner and chairman of San Francisco-based Tailwind Sports, the holding company for the U.S. Postal Service cycling team that Armstrong led to an unbroken string of seven victories in the Tour de France, from 1999 to 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relationship between the financier and the cycling champion began in 1990, when Armstrong was a teenager trying to break into professional cycling and Weisel was dreaming of building an American racing team that could dominate the Tour de France…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At stake is the $40 million in federal funds the Postal Service paid Tailwind between 1996 and 2004 to sponsor the team. Team management – which hired and paid the riders – promised in its contracts not to tolerate doping. The Postal Service is investigating whether Armstrong and others defrauded the government by violating that no-doping clause, a federal prosecutor wrote in a filing last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisel declined to comment for this story. He has not publicly addressed the reports of doping on the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In legal sparring over whether Armstrong had to comply with a Postal Service subpoena for financial records, however, the cyclist’s lawyer, John Keker, revealed that the government also had subpoenaed “nearly identical” records from Weisel, according to the unsealed documents. (Keker is a donor to the nonprofit, nonpartisan Center for Investigative Reporting.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first indication that Weisel was facing scrutiny in connection with the Armstrong doping scandal and its aftermath.\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/sports/story/glare-lance-armstrong-probe-falls-sf/print/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"AP\">\u003c/a>Here’s the AP story:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by Jim Litke and Jim Vertuno, AP Sports Writers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong has finally come clean.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong confessed to doping during an interview with Oprah Winfrey taped Monday, just a couple of hours after a wrenching apology to staff at the Livestrong charity he founded and has now been forced to surrender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day ended with 2 1/2 hours of questions from Winfrey at a downtown Austin hotel, where she said the world’s most famous cyclist was “forthcoming” as she asked him in detail about doping allegations that followed him throughout his seven Tour de France victories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on “CBS This Morning,” Winfrey said Tuesday she had not planned to address Armstrong’s confession before the interview aired on her OWN network but, “by the time I left Austin and landed in Chicago, you all had already confirmed it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m sitting here now because it’s already been confirmed,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The session was to be broadcast on Thursday but Winfrey said it will now run in two parts over two nights because there is so much material. \u003c!--more-->Winfrey would not characterize whether Armstrong seemed contrite but said he seemed ready for the interview. “I would say that he met the moment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think ’emotional’ begins to describe the intensity or the difficulty he experienced in talking about some of these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confession was a stunning reversal for a proud athlete and celebrity who sought lavish praise in the court of public opinion and used courtrooms to punish his critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a decade, Armstrong dared anybody who challenged his version of events to prove it. Finally, he told the tale himself after promising over the weekend to answer Winfrey’s questions “directly, honestly and candidly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cyclist was stripped of his Tour titles, lost most of his endorsements and was forced to leave Livestrong last year after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency issued a damning, 1,000-page report that accused him of masterminding a long-running doping scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Cycling Union, or UCI, issued a statement on Tuesday saying it was aware of the reports that Armstrong had confessed to Winfrey. The governing body for the sport urged Armstrong to tell his story to an independent commission it has set up to examine claims it covered up suspicious samples from the cyclist, accepted financial donations from him and helped him avoid detection in doping tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong started Monday with a visit to the headquarters of Livestrong, the charity he founded in 1997 and turned into a global force on the strength of his athletic dominance and personal story of surviving testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 Livestrong staff members gathered in a conference room as Armstrong told them “I’m sorry.” He choked up during a 20-minute talk, expressing regret for the long-running controversy tied to performance-enhancers had caused, but stopped short of admitting he used them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he was done, several members were in tears when he urged them to continue the charity’s mission, helping cancer patients and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Heartfelt and sincere,” is how Livestrong spokeswoman Katherine McLane described his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong later huddled with almost a dozen people before stepping into a room set up at a downtown Austin hotel for the interview with Winfrey. The group included close friends and lawyers. They exchanged handshakes and smiles, but declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey has promoted her interview, one of the biggest for OWN since she launched the network in 2011, as a “no-holds barred” session, and after the voluminous USADA report — which included testimony from 11 former teammates — she said she went into the session with 112 questions ready to go. Not all of them were asked, she said, but many were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USADA chief executive Travis Tygart, a longtime critic of Armstrong’s, called the drug regimen practiced while Armstrong led the U.S. Postal Service team “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.” USADA did not respond to requests for comment about Armstrong’s confession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Armstrong went after his critics ruthlessly during his reign as cycling champion. He scolded some in public and didn’t hesitate to punish outspoken riders during the race itself. He waged legal battles against still others in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one of his opponents, the London-based Sunday Times, has already filed a lawsuit to recover about $500,000 it paid him to settle a libel case, and Dallas-based SCA Promotions, which tried to deny Armstrong a promised bonus for a Tour de France win, has threatened to bring another lawsuit seeking to recover more than $7.5 million awarded by an arbitration panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Australia, the government of South Australia state said Tuesday it will seek the repayment of several million dollars in appearance fees paid to Armstrong for competing in the Tour Down Under in 2009, 2010 and 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d be more than happy for Mr. Armstrong to make any repayment of monies to us,” South Australia Premier Jay Weatherill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betsy Andreu, the wife of former Armstrong teammate Frankie Andreu, was one of the first to publicly accuse Armstrong of using performance-enhancing drugs. She called news of Armstrong’s confession “very emotional and very sad,” and choked up when asked to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He used to be one of my husband’s best friends and because he wouldn’t go along with the doping, he got kicked to the side,” she said. “Lance could have a positive impact if he tells the truth on everything. He’s got to be completely honest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betsy Andreu testified in SCA’s arbitration case challenging the bonus in 2005, saying Armstrong admitted in an Indiana hospital room in 1996 that he had taken many performance-enhancing drugs, a claim Armstrong vehemently denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be nice if he would come out and say the hospital room happened,” Andreu said. “That’s where it all started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former teammate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping, has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit that accused Armstrong of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service. An attorney familiar with Armstrong’s legal problems told the AP that the Justice Department is highly likely to join the lawsuit. The False Claims Act lawsuit could result in Armstrong paying a substantial amount of money to the U.S. government. The deadline for the department to join the case is Thursday, though the department could seek an extension if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the attorney, who works outside the government, the lawsuit alleges that Armstrong defrauded the U.S. government based on his years of denying use of performance-enhancing drugs. The attorney spoke on condition of anonymity because the source was not authorized to speak on the record about the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit most likely to be influenced by a confession might be the Sunday Times case. Potential perjury charges stemming from Armstrong’s sworn testimony in the 2005 arbitration fight would not apply because of the statute of limitations. Armstrong was not deposed during the federal investigation that was closed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong is said to be worth around $100 million. But most sponsors dropped him after USADA’s scathing report — at the cost of tens of millions of dollars — and soon after, he left the board of Livestrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the USADA findings, he was also barred from competing in the elite triathlon or running events he participated in after his cycling career. World Anti-Doping Code rules state his lifetime ban cannot be reduced to less than eight years. WADA and U.S. Anti-Doping officials could agree to reduce the ban further depending on what information Armstrong provides and his level of cooperation.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Finally, he told the tale himself after promising over the weekend to answer Winfrey’s questions “directly, honestly and candidly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cyclist was stripped of his Tour titles, lost most of his endorsements and was forced to leave Livestrong last year after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency issued a damning, 1,000-page report that accused him of masterminding a long-running doping scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Cycling Union, or UCI, issued a statement on Tuesday saying it was aware of the reports that Armstrong had confessed to Winfrey. The governing body for the sport urged Armstrong to tell his story to an independent commission it has set up to examine claims it covered up suspicious samples from the cyclist, accepted financial donations from him and helped him avoid detection in doping tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong started Monday with a visit to the headquarters of Livestrong, the charity he founded in 1997 and turned into a global force on the strength of his athletic dominance and personal story of surviving testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 Livestrong staff members gathered in a conference room as Armstrong told them “I’m sorry.” He choked up during a 20-minute talk, expressing regret for the long-running controversy tied to performance-enhancers had caused, but stopped short of admitting he used them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he was done, several members were in tears when he urged them to continue the charity’s mission, helping cancer patients and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Heartfelt and sincere,” is how Livestrong spokeswoman Katherine McLane described his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong later huddled with almost a dozen people before stepping into a room set up at a downtown Austin hotel for the interview with Winfrey. The group included close friends and lawyers. They exchanged handshakes and smiles, but declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey has promoted her interview, one of the biggest for OWN since she launched the network in 2011, as a “no-holds barred” session, and after the voluminous USADA report — which included testimony from 11 former teammates — she said she went into the session with 112 questions ready to go. Not all of them were asked, she said, but many were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USADA chief executive Travis Tygart, a longtime critic of Armstrong’s, called the drug regimen practiced while Armstrong led the U.S. Postal Service team “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.” USADA did not respond to requests for comment about Armstrong’s confession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Armstrong went after his critics ruthlessly during his reign as cycling champion. He scolded some in public and didn’t hesitate to punish outspoken riders during the race itself. He waged legal battles against still others in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one of his opponents, the London-based Sunday Times, has already filed a lawsuit to recover about $500,000 it paid him to settle a libel case, and Dallas-based SCA Promotions, which tried to deny Armstrong a promised bonus for a Tour de France win, has threatened to bring another lawsuit seeking to recover more than $7.5 million awarded by an arbitration panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Australia, the government of South Australia state said Tuesday it will seek the repayment of several million dollars in appearance fees paid to Armstrong for competing in the Tour Down Under in 2009, 2010 and 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d be more than happy for Mr. Armstrong to make any repayment of monies to us,” South Australia Premier Jay Weatherill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betsy Andreu, the wife of former Armstrong teammate Frankie Andreu, was one of the first to publicly accuse Armstrong of using performance-enhancing drugs. She called news of Armstrong’s confession “very emotional and very sad,” and choked up when asked to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He used to be one of my husband’s best friends and because he wouldn’t go along with the doping, he got kicked to the side,” she said. “Lance could have a positive impact if he tells the truth on everything. He’s got to be completely honest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betsy Andreu testified in SCA’s arbitration case challenging the bonus in 2005, saying Armstrong admitted in an Indiana hospital room in 1996 that he had taken many performance-enhancing drugs, a claim Armstrong vehemently denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be nice if he would come out and say the hospital room happened,” Andreu said. “That’s where it all started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former teammate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping, has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit that accused Armstrong of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service. 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Armstrong was not deposed during the federal investigation that was closed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong is said to be worth around $100 million. But most sponsors dropped him after USADA’s scathing report — at the cost of tens of millions of dollars — and soon after, he left the board of Livestrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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