This story came from last week’s National Enquirer, and for some reason, we overlooked it. According to their sources, Tony Parker has been hinting around to people that he’s not the only “cheater” in his marriage to Eva Longoria. Eva was allegedly nailing dudes like Lance Armstrong… and Justin Timberlake? Leo DiCaprio? Kiefer Sutherland? Here’s what I’ll buy: Eva with Mario Lopez, and maybe Timberlake and Armstrong. I don’t think Kiefer or Leo would mess with it. And since I’m a friggin’ child, just let me get it out of my system: DONGSTRONG.

When it comes to cheaters, Eva Longoria’s estranged husband Tony Parker hints it takes one to know one! The latest bombshell in the Desperate Housewives star’s nasty divorce battle has Tony Parker wondering if Eva carried on an affair with bicycling champ Lance Armstrong! The couple’s storybook marriage exploded recently when Eva, 35, found sexually explicit text messages that her 28-year-old hoops-playing hubby had exchanged with Erin Barry, the wife of his former San Antonio Spurs teammate Brent Barry.

Tony never slept with Erin, a close friend of his told The ENQUIRER. However, after being confronted by the texts, Tony admitted to Eva that he was “obsessed” with Erin. He also confessed that he’d had an affair with a different woman early in their marriage. But Tony has now turned the tables on Eva and believes that she may have cheated on him, too.

“They’re both trying to put on this public front that they still love and care for each other, but behind the scenes it’s a battle of cheating accusations, finger-pointing and blame.” As The ENQUIRER reported last week, Tony is linked to up to seven women, including Erin and a Pussycat Dolls dancer. Sources also revealed that he was jealous of his wife’s close platonic friendship with Mario Lopez.

But Eva had numerous other relationships that made Tony jealous. The “other men” in her life included 24 hunk Kiefer Sutherland, Justin Timberlake, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx, say insiders. It was Eva’s close ties with fellow Texan and Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong that sent Tony’s suspicions into overdrive.

Although they had a prenuptial agreement, Eva is seeking alimony. She earns a whopping $400,000 per episode for Housewives and has multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, but Tony is even wealthier.

He recently signed a four-year, $50 million contract extension with the Spurs. A spokesman for Tony denies he as accused Eva of cheating, but the hoops star has told his friends that Eva was “no saint” during their marriage, and he’s not planning to roll over in the divorce.

[From The National Enquirer]

I kind of like how the general consensus is that Eva isn’t some innocent victim of a cheating douche. Even if she was wasn’t screwing around on Tony (a big IF), she still had a hand in screwing up her marriage with her constant famewhore try-hard. I mean, what’s more important, flying down to Texas to spend the day with your husband, or walking yet another red carpet for the opening of whatever envelope? Also: I’ll buy that Eva was screwing around, in general. Basically, I’m surprised their marriage lasted this long.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here is Lance Armstrong on the new cover of Outside Magazine. According to CoverAwards, “It seems the editors fired up the Photoshop and not to smooth out those pensive eyebrow lines. Instead, they added the “38 BFD” to what was originally a plain blue T-shirt. The “38″ part is easy, that’s Lance Armstrong’s age, but BFD? What does that even mean? Some have speculated “Big Freakin’ Deal” which I guess makes sense.” When Lance saw the ‘Shopped cover, he tweeted: “Just saw the cover of the new Outside mag w/ yours truly on it. Nice photoshop on a plain t-shirt guys. That’s some lame bullsh-t.”

[From Lance’s Twitter feed]

Here’s more:

Cyclist Lance Armstrong is peeved at his latest appearance on Outside magazine’s cover. The latest issue of Outside features the seven-time Tour de France champ in a blue shirt that reads “38. BFD.” in large letters. The number is his age and the acronym stands for “big [expletive] deal.”

There’s just one catch. Armstrong apparently never wore the t-shirt.

“Just saw the cover of the new Outside mag w/ yours truly on it,” Armstrong tweeted . “Nice photoshop on a plain t-shirt guys. That’s some lame bullshit. #weak”

The magazine cover does note in small text that the shirt is “not Armstrong’s real T-shirt.”

Yahoo! sports blogger Chris Chase questioned the cover, saying Armstrong had every right to be upset.

“… so what was the point of the profane acronym in the first place? This wouldn’t be kosher in any circumstance, but it’s especially lame given how, well, lame the slogan is,” Chase wrote in the blog . He said it was Armstrong’s eighth appearance on the cover.

“Why the magazine would choose to alter a cover photo for a cheap gag and risk aggravating its favorite athlete is baffling,” he wrote.

Not all of Chase’s readers were in agreement.

“I think they overinflated his ego … ,” one wrote. Another replied, “BFD.”

[From Fox News]

Is it just me, or does everyone seem to be overreacting? Sure, ‘Shopping the t-shirt to read “38 B.F.D.” is dumb and they shouldn’t have done it – just because it’s not really hip and cool. Is that what Lance is bothered by? That he looks old and uncool? Because he does look old in the cover shot. Maybe he was irritated they didn’t ‘Shop his face, only his t-shirt? Eh. I look at too many fashion magazine, and I’ve gotten to the point where Photoshop only bothers me when they do it to make the person look like an alien.

CoughcoughJuliaRobertscough.

Magazine cover courtesy of Fox News. Lancome ad courtesy of HuffPo.

That one ball had a lot of juice left in it, right? Ugh. Too much? My bad. Lance Armstrong is expecting his fifth child! Congratulations to him and his child minions. Lance has three children with his ex-wife Kristin, and this will be his second child with his current girlfriend Anna Hansen. Lance announced the news by starting a new Twitter account for the baby called “CincoArmstrong”. Which actually made me chuckle. Here’s more:

Congrats are in order for cycling champ Lance Armstrong: he’s expecting his fifth child!

The 38-year-old athlete and girlfriend Anna Hansen will welcome their second child together this October.

Armstrong announced the news in a novel way: by creating a Twitter account for the unborn kid, “Cincoarmstrong.”

The baby’s first entries: “I got 2 arms, 2 legs, a nickname, and [I’m] 2 inches long. See y’all in October…I’m now the size of a lemon, 3.5 inches long, and weigh 1.5 ounces. And oh yeah, I’m on Twitter.”

Added the child’s dad via his own Twitter. “What to say? Yet another blessing in our lives. I cannot wait!”

The athlete then confirmed the news to his hometown paper, the Austin-American Statesmen. The future child’s future name could be Jack or Olivia, the paper reports.

Armstrong and Hansen welcomed son Maxwell Edward 10 months ago. The Tour de France winner and cancer survivor has three kids with ex-wife Kristin: 8-year old twin girls Isabelle and Grace and son Luke, 11.

[From Us Weekly]

Correct me if I’m wrong, anybody, but wasn’t one of the biggest rumors regarding Lance’s split with Sheryl Crow that she wanted a baby and he wasn’t that interested? Right? I remember hearing that a lot, and it always struck me as weird that he jumps into another relationship and starts having babies. Strange. But whatever, he seems thrilled that he’s going to be a father for the fifth time, so God bless.

Header photo: Lance & Anna at The Elysee Palace on March 22, 2010. Credit: WENN.

I hate sports more than anything else in the world. I hate it more than dieting, loud gum chewers on the train, and Bernie Madoff. This is hardcore. But I ultimately fail in my complete and utter devotion to hating sports: I really, really love inspirational sports movies. I even love a bad sports movie. You couldn’t get me to sit through a bad romantic comedy – hell, even a “good” romantic comedy (like there is such a thing) – if you dangled a box of ding dongs above my head. But I’d sit in an old rusty pokey nailed chair and happily watch “Leatherheads” without making a peep. And let me tell you something, if you’re willing to sit through that movie, then you are truly devoted.

So even though I really don’t care for Lance Armstrong as a person (I’ll never get over his dumping Sheryl Crow, then years later blaming it on her biological clock), I’m pretty damn excited that the biopic about his life is finally being made. If I were just one ounce less cool I’d already be standing in line at the movie theater wearing Livestrong bracelets up to my elbows.

It looks like the Lance Armstrong biopic is finally pedaling forward. The long-gestating Columbia project has brought on a writer well-versed in sports comeback stories and could shoot as early as next year, according to producer Frank Marshall. Gary Ross, who wrote and directed multiple-Oscar nominee “Seabiscuit,” has been hired to pen the Armstrong script. “We knew Gary well from is work on ‘Seabiscuit’ and thought he’d be perfect for this,” said Marshall, who also produced the Depression-era tale with producing partner Kathleen Kennedy.

The story of Armstrong’s improbable comeback from illness to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles — and his capturing of the American imagination in doing so — carries echoes of “Seabiscuit,” which told of a long-shot racehorse’s unlikely victories and the manner in which they inspired the country.

The pic is based on Armstrong’s first book, the 2000 tome he wrote with Sally Jenkins titled “It’s Not About the Bike,” which traces his story from his difficult Texas upbringing, his cancer diagnosis in 1996, his relationship to first wife Kristin, the birth of their child and his remarkable comeback from illness that saw him first win the Tour de France in 1999. (He also founded the Live Strong foundation, became the subject of unproven doping allegations, etc, though much of that happened later.) Armstrong of course went on to win six more titles in cycling’s biggest race, before retiring upon the completion of the 2005 Tour de France.

The movie’s development has faced more obstacles than a long-distance bike race. Columbia topper Matt Tolmach is a known cycling enthusiast who helped get the project into gear back in 2006. But the project has had to climb a number of hills, including casting-related questions. (Jake Gyllenhaal reportedly was interested and even spent time with Armstrong to research the role but did not wind up coming aboard.)

It was, however, Armstrong’s unlikely attempt to come out of retirement this year to try to win a record eighth title that helped kick-start the project. “We got inspired by his comeback, and we were able to (get going again),” Marshall said. Matt Damon is the latest actor to have been mentioned as a possible Armstrong, though there remains no official casting on the pic.

[From Risky Business Blog]

Say what you will about him as a person, but I still think Lance Armstrong’s life could make for an incredibly interesting movie. He’s still done a lot of good and helped raise a ton of money for cancer research. He’s got that enduring spirit that’s just made for the inspirational sports genre. And hey, if they wanted to do a tie-in, Sheryl Crow could score the film. Or maybe not. I’m under the impression things are still a little tense between those two. The whole thing about her biological clock putting too much pressure on their relationship, coupled with Lance’s recent new baby, might be a bit too much. But I’m sure there will be lots of other lady loves they could feature, should they choose to include that aspect of Armstrong’s life.

One of the keys to a good inspirational sports movie is showing the athlete’s weakness and frailties, which they must give in to every now and then. Which makes me wonder: will that be cancer, or will they possibly touch on the doping rumors as well?

Lance Armstrong is pictured at the Nike Sportswear launch in Los Angeles on March 6. Photo credits: WENN.

Lance Armstrong and his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, welcomed baby boy Max into the world late last night. Armstrong tweeted that little Max weighed in at 7lbs 5oz and that he is 20 inches long. Ahead of the birth, he posted, “Toughness is being redefined today.” About 8 hours later he tweeted “Wassup, world? My name is Max Armstrong and I just arrived. My Mommy is healthy and so am I!,” and included a link to the photo above of Max making the cutest expression while sticking out his tongue! Doesn’t he look like the Kung Fu baby?

Max is Armstrong’s fourth child. He also has son Luke, 9, and twins Isabelle and Grace, 7. Luke and Isabelle and Grace were conceived through artificial insemination using sperm Armstrong banked ahead of his treatment for testicular cancer. Max was conceived naturally though.

Lance will compete in the upcoming 2009 Tour de France, which takes place from July 4th to July 26th. He retired from professional cycling in 2005, but announced his comeback last fall.

Congratulations to Lance and Anna and best wishes for little Max!

There have been many rumors about why exactly Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow really split in 2006. Sheryl herself gave an interview last year, comparing the end of her relationship with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt’s, saying that she and Aniston had done the dumping: “For both of us, the perceived idea is that, in our big relationships, we both got dumped. Believe me, this is not true. Neither one of us has ever gotten dumped. No one ever knows what goes on in relationships.” Sheryl’s statement contradicts several new reports coming out of Lance’s camp, though. Earlier this month, part of Lance Armstrong’s new book came out, and Lance seems to be saying he dumped Sheryl over her biological clock. Something about her being baby crazy, and he’d had enough.

Now this latest report from The National Enquirer, who seems to be quoting from another book about to be published about Lance. They claim that the real problems in the relationship began when Lance realized Sheryl had bad mojo for his cycling events. Lance’s manager even spoke to Lance about Sheryl being a distraction:

When singer Sheryl Crow became too distracting for cycling superstar Lance Armstrong, he dumped her like a bag of bricks!

[Lance] put the brakes on their 2 1/2 year romance after his coach confronted him about the relationship, according to the blockbuster tell-all: “Lance: The Making of the World’s Greatest Champion”.

“Training for his final Tour in 2005, Lance wanted Sheryl with him,” revealed a publishing source familiar with the upcoming book.

“But in a rare confrontation, Lance’s coach Chris Carmichael told him that he discerned something disturbing in the raltionship that was distracting and could impact his performance.”

“He suggested Lance not bring Sheryl to training camp in the Alps and the Pyrenees. He expected a negative reaction, but Lance said he was thinking ‘the same damn thing.’ Without Sheryl with him, his performance improved and he went on to win his last Tour.”

On the heels of victory, Lance asked then 44-year-old Sheryl to marry him. But they split six months later and he publicly blamed her ticking biological clock for their breakup.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 1 2009]

Personally, I don’t really give a crap. This is a relationship that ended three years ago, and both Sheryl and Lance look petty and immature by continuing to talk about it and write about it. But if I am pretending to care, I’d say all breakup theories have some merit. Sheyl was/is smart enough to see when her relationship was going off the rails, and I could see her pulling the plug. On the other hand, I could totally buy that Lance is an emotional douchebag who promises the world to his girlfriends and never delivers, dumping them when stuff gets too serious.

Lance Armstrong and Sheryle Crow are shown together in 2004 and 2005. Credit: PRPhotos

Lance Armstrong, 36, fell in a bike pile-up earlier this week and was rushed to the hospital. He then flew to Atlanta to get surgery on his collarbone so that he can hopefully race in his eighth Tour de France later this year. On the flight back to the US, Lance was hopped up on painkillers and downing in-flight drinks. He turned into what one passenger described as “an assh*le.” Lance was even cut off by one of the flight attendants who thought he had drunk one too many.

After crashing during the run-up to his stunningly ambitious eighth Tour de France, Lance was on a flight from Madrid to Atlanta. And apparently the sometimes-womanizer took his self-pity out on the other passengers. Perhaps he knew how bad surgery was going to be, what with that steel plate and those 12 screws he’d just had implanted in his collarbone, which was busted in four spots?

Regardless, an A.T. reader on the flight with L.A. contacted us and described how unpleasant the 36-year-old cancer-surviving cyclist was:

“He was such an assh*le,” ranted our onboard babe. “He was so wasted on painkillers, and he drank a lot. It was just obnoxious.”

So how much did he chug exactly? “Enough to be cut off,” the witness told us. And that was in first class, where the booze flows freely until passengers usually cut themselves off, honeys.

After bitchin’ for a while, Lancey, who had his arm in a sling, finally went to sleep, much to the flight attendants’ and other passengers’ joy.

[From E! Online]

Lance’s publicist later contacted the writer of the article and denied the story, saying that “the only thing your source has right is that he was in a sling.” However, the story’s source actually contacted E! herself to dish the story. I’m tempted to believe the fellow flight mate over Lance’s PR machine. He is a notorious control freak, womanizer, and generally a jerk – sad, considering what an amazing athlete he is.

Still, you have to give the guy a break. The race in Madrid was, in his words, a test to see where he was in regards to his training and to the other bikers, some of whom are 15 years his junior. The last time he competed in the Tour de France was in 2005, and only time will tell if his shoulders will get better for training for the race.

Here’s Lance racing in the Milan-San Remo annual cycle race in Italy on March 21st. Images thanks to WENN .

He came out of retirement to continue his super-human winning streak, but world champion cyclist Lance Armstrong proved that he’s human after all. Armstrong was hospitalized this morning after crashing during a race in Spain.

Lance Armstrong’s first professional race on European soil since winning his last Tour de France has proved tougher than anyone expected – the cyclist was hospitalized in Spain Monday after crashing during the first stage of a five-day race.

Armstrong, who was caught in a pile-up about 12.5 miles form the stage’s finish in La Vuelta de Castilla y Leon, may have injured his collarbone, and appeared to be in considerable pain as he was helped into an ambulance headed to the Rio Carrion hospital in Palencia, the Associated Press reports. Some reports say he has withdrawn from the race.

Armstrong’s comeback after more than three years in retirement was already looking less than auspicious over the weekend. He placed only 125th on Saturday, and was racing as a 37-year-old competing against riders as much as 15 years younger than he is. He’d publicly called the three-day leg that began Monday “a true test to know where I am.”

Still, he encouraged fans to have realist expectations. “People think that somehow the same rider they saw in July, 2005 is miraculously going to be the same rider that they see again in March, 2009. It isn’t so,” he told reporters.

When Armstrong won his seventh Tour de France in 2005, he was considered among the finest riders to have ever competed, a recognition only burnished by the fact he won all but two after an astounding recovery from testicular cancer. In September 2008, he announced he was coming out of retirement and planned to compete in the 2009 Tour de France.

[From People]

As someone who fractured my collarbone as a kid – it was a WWF-inspired stunt gone wrong – I can tell you that it is incredibly painful. But this certainly isn’t the worst thing Armstrong’s had to endure. He’s tough! I’m sure that an injured collarbone is nothing compared to battling testicular cancer. Or pretending that you think Kate Hudson is a brilliant conversationalist. Hopefully he’ll pull through, so he can finish the race. Armstrong really does belong on his bike, and not having lunch with 20-something actresses at the Ivy.

Lance Armstrong is pictured at the Nike Sportswear launch in Los Angeles on March 6. Photo credits: WENN.

Lance Armstrong, 37, has proposed to his pregnant girlfriend, Anna Hansen. It will be the athlete’s third engagement and his second marriage. Armstrong has three children with his ex wife, Kristin Richards: Luke, nine, and twins Isabelle and Grace, eight. All of Lance’s children were conceived through artificial insemination using sperm he banked before undergoing treatment for testicular cancer in 1996. His latest child was conceived naturally after it was thought that he was infertile, suggesting that it was an accidental pregnancy.

According to the upcoming issue of In Touch, Armstrong staged a romantic proposal on the beach:

Cyclist Lance Armstrong is going to make an honest woman out of his pregnant girlfriend, Anna Hansen, according to In Touch Weekly.

The magazine sources one of his pals, who claims Armstrong asked Hansen to marry him during a recent trip to Hawaii.

“Lance proposed on the beach,” the friend told the mag. “Although he has a reputation as a ladies’ man, he’s also very traditional, and just feels more comfortable being married before having a baby.”

[From MSNBC's The Scoop]

Armstrong retired from professional cycling in 2005 after a record breaking seven Tour de France wins, but it’s not over for him yet. He announced his comeback last fall and will compete in the Tour de France this year. Armstrong spent the last three years focusing on his philanthropic and cancer advocacy work, but also kept up his physical fitness by competing in the marathons in NY and Boston in 2006, 2007, and 2008. He’ll soon have even more responsibility in his life as he welcomes his fourth child with a new wife.

Lance Armstrong is shown on 9/24/08 on CBS’ Early Show. Credit: WENN

Seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, 37, and his girlfriend Anna Hansen are expecting a baby. What makes this amazing is that Lance is recovering from testicular cancer, the treatment for which makes most men infertile. It is rare to recover your fertility following chemotherapy and surgery. Lance’s three children with ex-wife Kristin Richards were conceived using sperm frozen prior to his treatment, using artificial fertilization.

Cycling legend Lance Armstrong — a survivor of testicular cancer — and girlfriend
Anna Hansen are expecting a baby, CNN learned Tuesday through his charitable organization.

The baby is due in June.

Armstrong was diagnosed in 1996 with testicular cancer that had spread to his brain, lungs and abdomen. He underwent treatment for the disease and was able to return to cycling, eventually winning seven consecutive Tour de France races.

The harsh chemotherapy left him unable to have children, although he and then-wife Kristin Richards had three children using sperm the cyclist had donated before the treatment. Armstrong and Hansen, however, are expecting without the use of any artificial fertilization process.

“This is a hopeful thing for testicular cancer survivors,” CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said. “It means his body healed from the chemotherapy and surgery.”

CNN

Lance seems to enjoy using twitter, which Village Voice thinks is official. He has yet to mention the baby news on twitter. He does talk a lot about cycling and working out though, making it a kind of dull twitter account for me.

Lance is currently training for his comeback in the 2009 Tour de France. It is going to be hard work for Lance making a comeback, raising his three older children and a new baby all at once. We wish him the best of luck.

Note by Celebitchy: I bet this was an “oops” pregnancy because Lance assumed he was infertile and they weren’t taking precautions. Congratulations to Lance and Anna on the happy news.

Lance Armstrong is shown at Ante up for Autism on 10/3/08 and at the Clinton Global Initiative on 9/24/08. Credit: PRPhotos