Unibet Cashes In Their Chips

by Rant August 19, 2007

You may have already heard by now that Unibet.com, sponsor of one of the UCI’s ProTour teams, has decided to cash in their chips and go home. At the end of the season, they will stop sponsoring the beleaguered team and walk away from professional cycling — at least for the time being. Score one […]

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Being Floyd Landis

by Rant August 17, 2007

I should be working right now. Really, I should. But I’ve been grinding away for going on 12 days without a day off, and I need to shed a few cobwebs from the old noggin before I dive in for another day of work. Back in July, when the Floyd Landis Traveling Book Tour made […]

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Why Testify?

by Rant August 15, 2007

I don’t know if I said this in print after Joe Papp’s testimony at the Floyd Landis hearings in May, but at one point back then I made the comment that perhaps Joe Papp should go to work for one of the drug companies, given his personal experience in that arena. Turns out, he was […]

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It Doesn’t Take A Genius …

by Rant August 13, 2007

Cristian Moreni is apparently shocked at the harsh penalty he has to pay for testing positive for testosterone during the most recent edition of the Tour. Moreni’s positive test resulted in not only his own withdrawal from the race, but the withdrawal of his entire team, as well. After the last year, where a number […]

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Sunday Short Takes

by Rant August 12, 2007

Due to a looming deadline, I’m supposed to be working on my day job right now, but I’m taking a bit of a break … If You Don’t Crash, You’re Not Trying Hard Enough Back in the early 90s, I worked at Cycle Cellar, a bike shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan that catered to high-end […]

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Ranting A Year Away

by Rant August 11, 2007

Today marks one year since the first post appeared on these pages, a little epistle about the failure of the media to make any real sense of the scientific background to the allegations that Floyd Landis had doped on his way to winning the 17th Stage of the 2006 Tour de France. Who’d have thought […]

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