Between Mr Sepp ‘Steering The Ship’ Blatter (see elsewhere on this page), Mr Patrick ‘Golf Balls’ Neary (see the finance/comedy section) and Mr REDACTED REDACTED’REDACTED (see various legal eagles), it hasn’t been a great few days for prominent personages.

So, there it is: Lance Armstrong has admitted to Oprah Winfrey that his dominance of cycling from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s was tainted — to put it mildly — by performance-enhancing drugs.

Last week was a mixed one for former athletes, with Texas coursing through their veins.

Veteran CBS newsman Mike Wallace has died at 93.

Baseball star Roger Clemens denied allegations he ever used performance-enhancing drugs after the legendary pitcher was named in the Mitchell report, a 20-month investigation into their use in Major League Baseball.