Bonds’ Case Inches Forward

by Rant March 21, 2011

And It’s Been A Lo-o-o-o-ng Time Coming In just a few hours (or less), as I write this, jury selection will begin for the trial of Barry Bonds. Bonds, former slugger for the San Francisco Giants and current holder of the record for number of home runs hit in a career, is accused of lying […]

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And Now For Something Completely Different

by Rant March 8, 2011

A story about (non) doping and the consequences of standing up to the powers that be. Faithful readers of this blog will be familiar with the surreal story of Jeff Adams. If a stranger story in the annals of anti-doping history has ever occurred, I haven’t heard it. Yet. The Clifs-Notes version of his original story […]

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Contador Cleared

by Rant February 15, 2011

Looks like Alberto Contador’s time in the belly of the anti-doping beast may soon come to a complete end. Turns out the boy wonder has been cleared of charges stemming from a positive test result for clenbuterol at the 2010 Tour de France. Did he finally succeed in proving that it was, after all, the […]

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How About A Little Consistency?

by Rant February 14, 2011

Rules are rules, and if the powers that be want us to respect and follow those rules, then they’ve got to enforce them consistently. Which, in the world of sports and doping, doesn’t always happen. Sometimes, it matters who you are, and not what you did. Consider these three athletes: Jessica Hardy Li Fuyu Alberto […]

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Bombshells Everywhere, Eh?

by Rant February 6, 2011

So About Those Test Results… It’s been a good several weeks since Selena Roberts’ and David Epstein’s article The Case Against Lance Armstrong was published by Sports Illustrated, in both online and print forms. For those who aren’t committed fans of cycling, their article lays out in great detail a saga of doping, or alleged […]

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The Travails of Tour Winners Past and Present

by Rant January 26, 2011

There are times when I wonder if those of us who are cycling fans are closet masochists. How else could one possibly explain, with a straight face, why people follow a sport that seems to be so scandal-plagued that it leaves the editors of various scandal sheets scratching their heads wondering not whether to run […]

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