Tour of the Southland Stage 3 Results

by strbuk November 3, 2009

Because no one, meaning me, can figure out what time zone New Zealand is in this may seem confusing but after today’s completed stage 3 in the Tour of the Southland Floyd Landis stands in 35th place. You can read results and commentary on the stage here on the official tour website. Here is where […]

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A Landis Down Under

by Rant November 2, 2009

It’s the offseason for cyclists in the northern hemisphere, so what’s a pro to do? For the next week or so, Floyd Landis will racing at the Tour of Southland down in New Zealand. With two stages of the 9-stage race complete, Landis (who got a special dispensation from his current employer, Team OUCH, to […]

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Float Like A Butterfly …

by Rant October 13, 2009

… Sting Like A Wasp Fabio Cannavaro is pissed off, to say the least. “It really annoys me. And in case you didn’t understand properly I’ll repeat that, it really annoys me,” he said. “I have a clean conscience. Someone gets stung by a bee and finds themselves in the paper as if they were […]

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Ironic Quote of the Day

by Rant October 9, 2009

“It is not fair … Because you decided the way you did, it is not a transparent process.” – Dick Pound (who knows a thing or two about non-transparent processes from his days as the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency) commenting on the selection of golf and rugby for inclusion in the Olympics in […]

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Ranting Round-Up

by Rant October 6, 2009

Part 1, in which we briefly extol the virtues of the October VeloNews “What? What’s Rant doing praising VeloNews after he was so harsh in his critique of a Neal Rogers article not so long ago?” Strange thought, that. But if you throw darts at someone’s work when they disappoint, I believe you need to […]

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Changes are Afoot at the CAS

by Rant October 2, 2009

Like a number of journalists, sportswriters and members of the media who have at least a passing interest in sports arbitration, I’m on the Court of Arbitration for Sports’ email list. Whenever there’s a press release about a decision, or a pending decision, or anything else they want to publicize, an email finds its way […]

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