Yesterday I watched the latest salvo in the ongoing battle between Lance Armstrong (disgraced demi-god) and Travis Tygart (head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency). The context was Tygart’s latest interview on 60 Minutes. Kudos to the man. Despite the fact that Tygart had received repeated threats for going after Lance (including death threats) he had persisted […]
Lance Armstrong
It sucks to be Lance
By now Mongolian nomadic tribes and Sumatran hunter-gatherers know that Lance Armstrong cheated. Despite the fact, he inexplicably continued to have some very vocal supporters long after the crowds had become disillusioned and moved on. Among them was the columnist Buzz Bissinger. That all changed yesterday morning in “The Daily Beast” when Bissinger published a fierce, […]
The cult of Lance Armstrong
I suppose I’m not the first to notice the near cultic support for Lance Armstrong that one finds in some corners. He’s been called a “secular messiah” for his triumphant defeat of cancer coupled with the astounding success of the Livestrong brand and Lance Armstrong Foundation which have donated more than half a billion dollars […]
