Dud of the Week?

• Lance Armstrong fans who insist Armstrong is clean despite former friends and teammates who say he took performance-enhancing drugs (Hey, guys, I've got some oceanfront land in Topeka I'll sell you.)

• Joakim Noah (Bulls center apparently utters homophobic slur at fan sitting behind Bulls bench Sunday night. Kobe got $100,000 fine for similar slur: How much should Noah get?)

• NFL (Ray Lewis says crime rate will go up in the country if there is no football this year because NFL players will have nothing better to do. Charming, simply charming.)

• Newt Gingrich (Newt said something his backers didn't like and tried to get out of it by saying, "Any ad which quotes what I said is a falsehood." Should we start calling him Newt Tressel?)

• Horseracing (another year without a Triple Crown winner and another year when thoroughbred racing sinks further into the abyss of irrelevancy.)