Lance's Team Lands Sponsor

So I'll be behind any Lance Armstrong / Johan Bruyneel professional squad, but Radio Shack as the main sponsor? Really? I really hope this turns out to be false. They should go the Columbia HTC route and get backed by Nike and Apple. But that's just my wishful thinking.

Regardless, it's great to see another [...]

The 2009 Tour de France Rocks!

Man, there's so much going on with this year's Tour de France and I cannot remember ever watching, reading or enjoying so much of every day's stages ever — not even close.

Sure, part of it is Armstrong coming back this season, but it's been just utterly enthralling for me this year, with a lot of [...]

Why Lance Will Win

Interesting take on why Lance Armstrong is staring down his 8th Tour de France later here in July. I hope the author's right, but there are a lot of stages in between now and Paris. Regardless, the Keefer household is pulling for Lance, and really Astana as a whole.

Why Lance Will Win

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Lance Rewrites the Script

Man, what a surprisingly interesting (and windy) third day of the Tour de France this morning! Columbia HTC's whole-team break was quite the site. It was also immediately apparent of the combination of good fortune and good positioning that Lance Armstrong and a fellow Astana teammate were able to go with the Columbia squad in [...]

Lance's Team Split

Man, it almost seems like things would have gone better, or at least gotten that much more interesting for the team and the pro peloton had Astana's Kazakh sponsors not come through with their financial backing in the eleventh hour.

Instead of the Astana squad, we would have seen team Livestrong-Nike in the 2009 Tour [...]

RBC Center Upgrades Its Scoreboard

It looks like now that the Canes are out of the Stanley Cup (and the Penguins are struggling in the finals), the RBC Center is upgrading its central hanging, meaning it's getting four updated high definition screens. There must be a lull in the scheduled events at the arena. It is early in the summer [...]

RBC Center Says Goodbye to Ice, Hockey For the Season

Well, the Stanley Cup playoffs are officially over for me, with the Canes getting swept and eliminated in short order against Pittsburgh.

The RBC Center took little time before melting down the ice, and clearing it away. I first checked the RBC Center's webcam around 11am this morning, and the ice was still fully intact, [...]

NBC Gives Eastern Finals 'The Heisman'

So despite a great win last night in overtime against the Boston Bruins, the Carolina Hurricanes still aren't getting their national respect. It seems NBC doesn't think the Eastern Finals between the Canes and Penguins is worth national coverage, even for a game or two. Instead, the games will all be on Versus. Oh well, [...]

Astana Changes Jersey Over Money Row

If you've been watching the 2009 Giro d'Italia stage 7 live feed this over at Universal Sports this morning at all, you might have noticed the Astana jerseys seem to be lacking a little something – the majority of their sponsors. It may be tough to see the new sponsor-light jerseys for most of the [...]

Caniacs Earn National Praise Amidst Crumbling Sun Belt Hockey

The RBC Center does seem to be a loud and powerful place for hockey, and from everything I've read and heard – it's one of the loudest places in the NHL. With tonight's performance in Boston (Carolina is currently down 3-0 with 13:16 to go in the 3rd period), there may be some truth to [...]