These clauses are *almost* as interesting and amusing as some of the musicians’ concert riders. In the baseball ones, you can see some of the superstition come into play (Charlie Kerfeld’s).

14 Offbeat Clauses in Baseball Contracts

I’ve been meaning to post a link about this. The familiar and easy to pick out of the peloton pink of T-Mobile’s German race team is no more. Doping is really killing professional cycling, as Discovery’s team disbanded this off-season as well. Sucks. Like a lot of professional sports, things need to change, and I’m not just talking about drug testing. These athletes don’t live in a bubble and you know teams and coaches have some input and there have to be some responsibility of the organizations and staffs to not look the other way, etc.

T-Mobile Pulls Out Of Cycling