I logged onto CNN.com to read about another potential doping professional sports scandals. This time it was in cycling.

According to CNN, Spanish officials have linked some of the Tour De France’s top riders, including tour favorite Jan Ulrich to drug doping (CNN.com).

For now I will reserve judgment on this particular story, since Lance Armstrong was wrongfully accused by Dick Pound and L’Equipe last year.

It seems that on a weekly basis sports fans are reading about  professional sports scandals. Today’s stories are about human growth hormones, steroids, drug doping and other performance enhancing drugs.

As a sports fan I’m outraged and saddened by these professional sports scandals. I personally want to see fair play in sports. I don’t have to see records being broken. I also want the best athlete/team to win by playing within the rules.

So who’s to blame? I think a number of parties need to take some responsibility.

It’s time for professional and amateur sports leagues and associations to get tough with the athletes that cheat. I believe in lifetime bans for cheaters who take performance enhancing drugs