Just last week, Oprah Winfrey had confirmed the epic lies of Lance Armstrong on national TV.

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The agency had tried to capture national pride and excitement by depicting the UK as one huge stadium, with an "epic" anthem scored by Elbow.

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That made me a natural candidate to promote this great new video from the good folks at the Interior Department highlighting some of America's epic National Park engagements.

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Seven years the epic Notre Dame-Michigan State tilt, with another national title hanging in the balance and the Irish facing third-and-long from their own 3-yard line, Parseghian decided the prudent call was to gamble.

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Niyazov attached such importance to his own epic account of the Turkmen nation that questions on the text appeared in the national driving test.

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