Nike has severed ties with famed cyclist Lance Armstrong, citing insurmountable evidence that he participated in doping and misled the company about those activities for more than a decade. The clothing and footwear company said Wednesday that it was terminating Armstrong's contract "with great sadness."
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The move came a week after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released a massive report detailing allegations of widespread doping by Armstrong and his teams when he won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005.
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Dallas-based HKS Inc. beat out four other competitors to design the new Vikings stadium. At a public meeting on October 15 they released more of their proposed stadium designs. The Vikings and the architectural firm hope to unveil a final design in January or February.
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The "Meet the Architect" gathering at the Minneapolis Convention Center yesterday featured some new Vikings stadium renderings from HKS. The headline: they weren't kidding with the transparent roof or the Gehry-esque "ribbon roof."
The Minnesota Sports Faciliites Authority is holding the first in a series of public sessions today to hear out Minnesotans on what they'd like to see in a new NFL stadium to replace the Metrodome. In the meantime, have a look at what won't be on the drawing board. Here are a collection of renderings drawn from the bids of the design teams that weren't selected as architects of the new $1 billion stadium in downtown Minneapolis. The winner is at the end.
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The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority is holding the first stop tonight in what it's calling a public listening tour about a new stadium to replace the Metrodome.
One week after his first NFL concussion, Robert Griffin III ran more, ran smarter, ran bigger. And won. He left the Minnesota Vikings in his wake, never more so than on his 76-yard touchdown run that put the game away for the Washington Redskins in the fourth quarter.
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