Cycling, Racing

Money, Meet Mouth: Tour Predictions

Comments Off 03 July 2009

Former co-worker and all-around NYC-based super witty copywriter extraordinaire Matt O’Rourke has called me out. Tour predictions, here we come. This is a crazy tour, right?  Right.  I mean Astana has a cluster-f#@* of internal politics going on and no one is happier about it than the media (that may actually be the point). Then [...]

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Into the Great Outdoors with Team Columbia-HTC: TdF Mania

1 Comment 03 July 2009

I don’t know exactly when or where, but at some point in the last few years I do vaguely recall saying, “I wish someone would pay me to watch the Tour de France.”  Sal and I probably had a good laugh, rushed out the door together, and moved onto more important parts of life. Who [...]

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How to Track Every Second of the 2009 Tour de France

9 Comments 02 July 2009

I asked the Twitterverse yesterday how they would be following the Big Yellow Race in France.  Most are watching live in the morning, “sneaking” streaming or live updates at work, or DVR-ing the crap out of it and then trying to avoid hearing spoilers all day long. I used to be in the DVR/hiding category [...]

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