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...doesn't disappoint with her new book, Match Me if You Can (Morrow), which immediately landed on the New York Times bestsellers list. Galley Girl caught up with Phillips by phone, as she was having tea at a little cafe in Phoenix, taking a breather from her hectic book tour...
...boxing it would qualify as a seriously late hit. Having ended his pro career with a seventh straight win of the Tour de France last month, Lance Armstrong might have thought he'd proved himself once and for all. Mais non -at least not according to the French sporting daily L'Equipe. Its four-page cover story on Tuesday, headlined "The Armstrong Lie," claims to have pieced together what it says is "incontestable" evidence that in 1999-the year of his first Tour victory-Armstrong used the banned substance EPO. "The extraordinary champion, the escapee from cancer, has become...
...newspaper published the results of tests conducted since December 2004 by the French National Anti-Doping Laboratory. With the aim of fine-tuning their methodology for spotting EPO, which improves the blood's capacity to transport oxygen, researchers there tested frozen, anonymous urine samples from racers in the Tour de France of 1999, two years before any tests for EPO had been authorized for the tour. Twelve of the samples tested positive for EPO. L'Equipe, which is owned by the same organization that owns the Tour de France itself, matched the numbers of the samples with original registration papers...
LANCE ARMSTRONG and PRESIDENT BUSH have a lot in common. Both are Texans and avid cyclists with at least a casual interest in politics. The seven-time Tour de France winner and the leader of the free world shared the trail last weekend at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. White House press secretary Trent Duffy wouldn't say whether the pair discussed politics (Armstrong opposes the Iraq war and wants more spending on cancer research), but at the end of a two-hour, 17-mile spin, Bush gave Armstrong, whom he described as "a good rider," a T shirt...
CHECKED IN. Rapper EMINEM, 32; to an undisclosed rehabilitation center; for a dependency on sleep medication. The news came two days after cancellation of his European tour...