Dollars and Sports blog: Losing Lance Armstrong as a role model

Let me start with a question, a question that I’ve posed to countless friends and other sports fans, yet it seems to elude most when talking about a well-respected athlete accused of doping.
Tell me who, of all the modern athletes ever accused of taking performance-enhancing drugs, have we ever learned was clean?

The answer? Nobody.
Lance Armstrong is a hard-working and dedicated athlete, surely, but his ivory tower of fortune, fame and arrogance came tumbling down when he announced Thursday that he would no longer fight drug charges that the U.S. Anti-Doping…