IN BRIEF
With the first training camp of his comeback set to start, Lance Armstrong guaranteed the drug-testing program he arranged with America's top anti-doping expert will be in place by the time he rides in his first official race in January.
The seven-time Tour de France winner starts training with his new team Monday without having subjected himself to drug tests by the expert he teamed with, Don Catlin, and with no deal in place to post results of those tests online.
But in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, Armstrong said the goal was not to have the program in place by this week, but by the time he rides in Australia in January.
LANDOVER, Md. — Announced one last time as the "starting free safety" for the Washington Redskins, Sean Taylor was inducted into the team's Ring of Fame before Sunday's game against the New York Giants.With his mother, father, girlfriend and daughter huddled under umbrellas near the center of the field, Taylor's name was unveiled on the upper-level facade of FedEx Field, joining 42 other Redskins greats.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Lane Kiffin will become Tennessee's next coach, two days after Phillip Fulmer's 17-season tenure ended with a grand and victorious send-off.Kiffin, the former Oakland Raiders coach, will be introduced at a news conference Monday.Kiffin, 33, replaces Fulmer, who was forced out after 17 seasons as Vols coach. Fulmer won a national championship in 1998 and two Southeastern Conference titles but had two losing seasons in the last five years, including a 5-7 mark this year.
MEXICO CITY — New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez was in the Mexican capital on the same weekend Madonna was performing there — but it wasn't immediately known if the All-Star third baseman and the pop star met while in Mexico City.When asked what he thought about being in the city at the same time as Madonna, Rodriguez said it was "very good," without elaborating.Rodriguez spent two hours Sunday teaching kids to bat at a new sports center built on a landfill in the poor suburb of Nezahualcoyotl.Rodriguez and his wife divorced in September, months after he made tabloid headlines for a rumored, but denied, dalliance with Madonna.Less than four weeks later, Madonna and filmmaker husband Guy Ritchie announced their own split after nearly eight years of marriage.
TORONTO — Brian Burke took over as president and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.He got a six-year deal, worth a reported $3 million annually, to replace interim GM Cliff Fletcher — who took over after John Ferguson was fired in January.Burke spent the past three-plus seasons managing the Anaheim Ducks, leading them to a Stanley Cup title in 2007.
