The News Review:
- Landis Case Poses Challenge to Cycling’s Legitimacy
- Sports of The Times; Down in Atlanta the Mets Start to Blot ut a…
- Slippery Rock will reinstate two women’s sports teams – College…
- Friday’s Sports Transactions
Landis Case Poses Challenge to Cycling’s Legitimacy
New York Times – Jul 29, 2006
But if the Tour de France is forced to strip the title from its champion the notion that cycling has failed at exerting control over the doping problem will only gain traction. “The cycling world cannot accept that a few people are taking away the credibility of the sport they claim to love” said Pat McQuaid president of the International Cycling Union. Promising a comprehensive inquiry into the sport’s problems but stopping short of endorsing a suspension of the racing calendar McQuaid said he hoped to appoint independent experts to examine everything from athletes’ contracts to team managers’ backgrounds. “I’m planning a complete audit of the top level because that’s where people are ruining the sport” he said in a telephone interview yesterday. “It’s shocking that people at the top act so stupidly and damage the sport. “McQuaid stressed that he would not pass judgment on Landis until a laboratory has tested the secondary sample. Results of that test are expected within a few days… The investigation led to the removal of several of the top contenders from the field on the eve of the Tour de France. That scandal and Landis’s situation have created the biggest doping crisis for the sport since 1998 when the nine-man Festina team was kicked out of the competition after performance-enhancing drugs were found in the car of a team trainer. The cascade of doping issues has led many of those who follow the sport closely to feel that cycling is overwhelmed and may need to be radically overhauled. “It is bloated and sick and needs to go into a rest home” said Jeremy Whittle the cycling correspondent for The Times of London. “It’s a combination of the grueling nature of the event the influx of corporate sponsorship and the corruption of so many of the people who are involved in it. ” But it is unlikely that the current crisis will result in the cancellation of the Tour. Except during World Wars I and II the Tour de France has been held every year since 1903.
Sports of The Times; Down in Atlanta the Mets Start to Blot ut a…
New York Times – Jul 29, 2006
For younger Mets fans this seems like ancient history but for veteran Mets fans those still sleeping under the covers this place used to be about misery. Thats why some critics wrote and I agree that the Mets three-game series with the Atlanta Braves which began last night was a crucial pre-playoff litmus test. This was an important night. Pedro Martínez the pitcher brought to New York to win the Mets a championship was on the mound after missing nearly a month with a hip injury complicated by the effects of food poisoning.
Slippery Rock will reinstate two women’s sports teams – College…
ESPN – Jul 29, 2006
attachButton(document. getElementById(“espnstlink”)); Associated PressSLIPPERY RCK Pa. — Slippery Rock University will reinstate women’s swimming and water polo following a federal judge’s ruling that eliminating the sports did not comply with a federal law requiring equal opportunities for female athletes. University President Robert Smith announced Friday that the school about 45 miles north of Pittsburgh will reinstate the sports for the 2006-07 academic year. The schedules for both will closely resemble the 2005-06 schedule the university said. The university announced in January it was cutting eight sports — including women’s field hockey water polo and swimming — to save $350000 as part of an effort to erase a $2 million budget shortfall. The school later reinstated field hockey but members of the women’s swimming and water polo teams challenged the cuts in a federal lawsuit.
Friday’s Sports Transactions
USA Today – Jul 29, 2006
Assigned RHP Keith Foulke to Lowell of the New York-Penn League. CLEVELAND INDIANS-Recalled 3B Andy Marte from Buffalo of the IL. ptioned INF Ramon Vazquez to Buffalo. AKLAND ATHLETICS-Recalled RHP Shane Komine from Sacramento of the PCL.
