The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. The human drama of facing off with Oprah Winfrey.
Meanwhile, what's this crazy business with Notre Dame's linebacker? Where I went to college, it was losers like me who had imaginary girlfriends. The football players had real ones, and they tended to be desirable, like the Alabama quarterback's.
I suspect it was all some hare-brained scheme to create a buzz and win the Heisman Trophy. A linebacker needs a cancer tragedy to compete with quarterbacks and ball carriers.
Back to Lance Armstrong, the all-American liar. After beating cancer, he persisted with the chemotherapy, and won the Tour de France seven times. Turns out, however, that even a cancer survivor can be a pugnacious cheat. It's cancer that links these stories as much as sport. Everyone loves a good cancer story but it may be that the true ones don't make good copy.
