Rick Reilly is the worst sports writer out there (Did you read his recent defense of the Redskins? Saying they should change their name is like knowing what's good for Native Americans by putting them on reservations. Srsly). 

I imagine hell consisting of the broadcast team of Jim "the shill" Nance and color commentating by Dick Vitale, with afterword and "insight" provided by fucking Rick Reilly.  Honorable mentions to Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, and Brent Musburger with Pam Oliver on the sidelines for second team suckfest of awful broadcasters.

Don't forget Jim Gray, Billy Packer and that jagoff Colin Cowherd (more of a talk show host than a game broadcaster)

Cover of 9wmag!

the more of these pictures you post, the more i know i must do cross...

Brendan - its 35-40 mins of pure hell and pain, then heckling people after whilst drinking beer and having a donut, how much more fun can you want??

the mud slaloms awaken my inner child

Mud is always appealing and nostalgic.  Get on the bandwagon!

there is only supercross

Another reason not to do TryAthalons.  Oh, except for the re-mount porn.  That'll never get old.

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9838319/trouble-surface

i think i've seen that video before mark.  a slightly different version:

Jules I think the best part about that story was when she passed her
husband in the swim, clinging to life in the cold rigid water, and left him
to die as she continued on in search of a PR.

Nothing better exemplifies the mindset of a triathlete, and the sacrifices
they make just so we can have amazing crash highlight videos to watch on
YouTube for decades to come

M
On Oct 18, 2013 6:10 PM, "Brendan Rigby" <

Wheelmen: don't waste your money. 

There really was nothing there that I didn't already know....cept maybe that big tex isn't as financially sound as I assumed him to be....and I believe his lawyers did not handle the USADA well at all...sounds like he could have gotten a one year ban and had 2 tour titles taken from him...I can only imagine what his legal bills look like.  Floyd is bleeding him dry...pun intended.

all u need:

Some masters just wanna dope:  http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/10/news/is-this-man-a-doper_306150

mugwump said:

Some masters just wanna dope:  http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/10/news/is-this-man-a-doper_306150

What is left unanswered in this article is why this man's diagnosis does not meet the criteria for a TUE? The article says the code says, "“Justification for the use of testosterone must meet the standard of demonstrating an organic cause of androgen deficiency/male hypogonadism. A diagnosis based simply on a functional disorder does not meet this standard … rather, functional diagnoses often focus solely on low testosterone levels and generalized symptoms."

What is it about his diagnosis that does not meet the standards? Must cancer patients demonstrate the "organic cause" of their cancer before their medications may be approved by USADA?

It is frustrating that Beaudin doesn't share this, though I'm guessing that the racer didn't want to share it.  At the same time, there is no rigor behind the Low-T diagnosis.  The New England Journal of Medicine recently posted a study that concluded

I feel for the guy.  USADA takes ten years to catch Armstrong but when this mid-pack wannabe shows up with his papers in hand they just go "meh, not our problem, our rules don't cover you"

Jules, 

@Jules-Funny...I know that guy Rob that they interview from Boulder.

Oy
On Oct 22, 2013 11:19 AM, "Phillip Maronilla" <

mugwump said:

Some masters just wanna dope:  http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/10/news/is-this-man-a-doper_306150

My response

mugwump said:

mugwump said:

Some masters just wanna dope:  http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/10/news/is-this-man-a-doper_306150

My response

http://jralong.blogspot.com/2013/10/problems-with-this-testosterone-tue.html

I really enjoyed reading this, and think there are some excellent points made. Although I must confess that my first reaction to it was that he wrote this like he rides the streets of New Jersey. Namely heading to a traffic light and or corner, JP assumes that the coast is going to be clear. And it really feels like, despite making caveats saying otherwise, he assumes this guy and his doctor are being shifty. But it's a blog, an opinion piece so that's not a critique, it's just a comment.

watch live: http://www.sixdayracing.com/About-Six-Day/

Marc Bertucco said:

mugwump said:

mugwump said:

Some masters just wanna dope:  http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/10/news/is-this-man-a-doper_306150

My response

http://jralong.blogspot.com/2013/10/problems-with-this-testosterone-tue.html

I really enjoyed reading this, and think there are some excellent points made. Although I must confess that my first reaction to it was that he wrote this like he rides the streets of New Jersey. Namely heading to a traffic light and or corner, JP assumes that the coast is going to be clear. And it really feels like, despite making caveats saying otherwise, he assumes this guy and his doctor are being shifty. But it's a blog, an opinion piece so that's not a critique, it's just a comment.

thanks.

Yeah, totally agree...it's almost a good article on VN. But if you are going to write the story, you gotta answer all the obvious questions.

Only Malcolm Gladwell is allowed to write things that raise more questions than they answer!