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First quarter GDP was revised down : The economy grew at a 0.6% annualized pace in the quarter, revised down from the initial estimate of 1....

Two articles, one in the Washington Post the other in the Wall Street Journal , tell two sides of the same dismal story. WSJ first: Her n...

Admitted to doping when he won the TdF in 1996: 1996 Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis, who is now the owner and manager of Team CSC, admit...

Who said this: As Army officers on duty in the war on terror, you will now face enemies who oppose and despise everything you know to be rig...

Sales of new houses up huge in April (I'd be willing to bet big that the number will be revised down in future months) while the sale of...

Realized I gave the whole funding thing short-shrift last night in my effort to catch up. The way I see it is that the Dems didn't hav...

The T-Mobile team was implicated in systematic doping in the 90's (when they were Telekom). A number of riders have come forward and co...

Been focused on cycling stuff lately. Politics has slipped from the front of mind for a while, suffering from burnout a bit on that. Don...

I found out yesterday that Floyd Landis was IN THE ROOM when Geoghan was making the call to Lemond. Landis claims that he didn't hear/...

Did anyone not see this coming? The ongoing saga of Floyd Landis's business manager Will Geoghegan took another twist Monday when it wa...

But worth the wait. A NOTE PLACED INTHE PAY ENVELOPE OF BILLY "THE PIANO MAN" JOEL .

OK, after Landis came up positive in the TdF, he called Greg Lemond. That's not weird, although Lemond has been pretty outspoken about ...

Amazing stuff . Here is a good link to some background and some very good points: And yet not only would Ashcroft, et al., not budge -- the...

I knew that helmet design has really improved lately, but I didn't know it had improved this much: Lipscomb, a graduate student in medi...

Landis is in the middle of his arbitration hearing. It could last up to 10 days. If he loses, he loses his TdF championship and is suspend...

Lieberman is an asshole, part XLI: Not only has Lieberman endorsed Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.) -- one of Democrats' biggest targets in...

Not sure what to make of this : Floyd Landis has said that the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) offered him a deal to reduce his pot...

In his heart of hearts, maybe Rudy doesn't want to really run for president. I understand that he really doesn't have a choice in ...

Tom Allen is going to run against Susan Collins for the Senate. He seems pretty popular (in Portland at least) and well funded. She seems ...

My thoughts on his "I was just planning to dope" bullshit from yesterday: He won the Giro by 9 minutes. His competitors were awed...