It’s Thursday so there must be a blood doping story

The New York Times today posted on their website more doping news – but it really wasn’t news. According to the New York Times a rider has corroborated Floyd Landis’ claims of doping during the Postal Team years. The rider wished to remain anonymous because, “investigators advised him not to speak publicly about the information [...]

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Lance Armstrong: What’s next?

With Lance Armstrong’s European racing retirement just a couple of weeks away, what’s up next for the seven-time Tour de France champion? At this point rumors abound on what his next move might be. In the short term he’s still racing the Tour and with his chance of winning the overall completely gone, his only [...]

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Lance Armstrong: The Painful End of an Era

This was the stage where the Tour de France was truly going to start. Stage 8 offered up two category 1 climbs–guaranteed to shake up the general classification. Little did we know that this stage was now going to be forever known as the place where Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France career came to an [...]

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This is how Armstrong can win the Tour de France

With six days of racing behind us Lance Armstrong has found himself in a position he’s never been in before since his winning streak at the Tour started in 1999 – behind the eight-ball with options to advance toward the top of the general classification running out. In pre-race sound bites Armstrong has acknowledged the [...]

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Who Can Fill Void Vacated by Lance?

When Ghana eliminated the U.S. it also eliminated my interest (and probably most Americans’) in the World Cup. I’ll admit it – I was using World Cup soccer as a crutch. It was a means for me to not fixate on the Tour and constantly ruminate on different possible scenarios that could occur. Would Contador [...]

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Armstrong out of Milan-Sanremo

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will not be able to participate in Milan-Sanremo, the second ProTour event of the 2010 season. The Team RadioShack leader, suffering from acute gastroenteritis, will be replaced by teammate Fumiyuki Beppu. “It would have been good to have Lance lineup for the start but we prefer not to [...]

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The squeaky wheel gets the lube

I’d heard about the Tony Kornheiser’s comments about running over cyclists a few days ago. To be honest, it really didn’t faze me. He’s a sports commentator whose whole schtick is to be controversial. His bosses expect that and pay him to be controversial. Did I honestly think that he believed what he said, that [...]

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Riding with Armstrong and the Trek Madone

A couple years ago Trek unveiled their 2008 Madone road bike in Madison, Wisconsin. This new Madone was a break from the OCLV frames we’d seen from them in the past, so it was a big deal for the company. The Madone was launched with a lot of fanfare in a theater in downtown Madison [...]

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My Plaid Thermos: The Twitter war is over, The Art of War and Androids

Well it looks like the Twitter war is over before it even got started. Vaughters has clarified his “soft-pedaling” comment on the Versus site, much to my disappointment. I was hoping that it was going to elevate to some real back and forth, possibly dragging Wiggins into the fight creating a virtual Twitter “death-match” – [...]

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My Plaid Thermos: Qatar crashes, Twitter war, Landis and Greenville Spring Series

I told you that there would be crashes with broken collar bones at the Tour of Qatar. Vaughters twittered that Cozza broke his collar bone and Sky’s Kurt Arvesen also went down in the neutral roll-out. And with the cross and side winds being part of the race you can expect more of the same. [...]

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