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| Bengals beat Chiefs 17-10, win AFC North CINCINNATI (AP) -- Five days after burying a teammate, the wrung-out Bengals had barely enough to win a title.... hosted.ap.org |
Peyton Manning cruises to record fourth NFL MVP award Maybe the award should be renamed Most Valuable Peyton. Peyton Manning became the first player to win The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable ... rssfeeds.usatoday.com |
Cavendish condemns return of Ricco • 'It's like a parasite coming back into the sport'• Ricco may line up against Cavendish in Milan-San Remo raceMark Cavendish has condemned the imminent return to cycling of Riccardo Ricco, the Italian rider who was ejected from the Tour de France two years ago and given a 20-month ban from the sport after testing positive for CERA, the third-generation form of the human growth hormone EPO."It's like a parasite coming back into the sport," Cavendish said at his HTC-Columbia team's training camp in Majorca. "It's not the fact of what he did, because everyone can make a mistake. But he doesn't see it as a mistake. He's not even sorry about it."The 26-year-old Ricco, a specialist climber, won mountain stages of the 2008 Tour at Super-Besse and the Col'Aspin. Four days after the latter it was revealed that he had given a positive result from a dope test taken after the fourth stage, when he had tried to evade testers. He was expelled from the race and his Saunier-Duval team left with him, firing the Italian from the squad the following day. The original two-year ban, handed down by the Italian Olympic committee, was reduced by four months on appeal to the Court for Arbitration for Sport on the grounds of his co-operation.Now he plans to return with a small Italian team, Ceramica Flaminia. His ban ends on 10 March and he could find himself facing Cavendish 10 days later in the Milan-San Remo one-day classic, which the British rider won last year, and in the Giro d'Italia a few weeks later."The passion that I and other riders have for a beautiful sport, and for someone not to give a shit about it, it's incredibly demoralising to have to compete against people like that," said Cavendish, who has made his home in Tuscany for several years and has embraced - and been embraced by - Italian cycling culture. "It's hard for me to say whether he should have been given a life ban. What upsets me is the lack of regret for everybody and everything they've damaged."Another rider who was forced to leave the race along with Ricco was Cavendish's "good friend" David Millar, the Scottish rider, who served a two-year ban and has since made a successful return to the sport both as a rider and an outspoken campaigner against doping. "David is deeply sorry for what he did," Cavendish said. "It's the people who don't care about what they've done, that's what gets me."CyclingMark CavendishRichard Williamsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Bung allegation at Hull rocks football as court case launched against Paul Duffen English football was left reeling by a fresh bung scandal on Friday after Hull City launched a High Court case against Paul Duffen, their former executive chairman. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Setanta USA to shut down on Feb. 28 NEW YORK (AP) -- Setanta will stop broadcasting in the United States and Caribbean on Feb. 28 and turn over many of its rights for soccer and rugby events to Fox, which launches its second all-soccer U.S. network the following day.... hosted.ap.org |