A three-member arbitration panel has issued a two-year suspension of David Clinger for a positive testosterone test at last year’s national elite championships in Bend, Oregon. . . . The 32-year-old Clinger is a former member of the U.S. Postal, Festina and Rock Racing teams. Clinger tested positive for synthetic testosterone and modafinil in a [...]

Speaking of dopers, the International Court for Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected Alejandro Valverde’s challenge to his two-year suspension from racing on Italian soil. Further, should the UCI decide to pursue this matter more openly, Valverde could face a global racing ban for up to two years. CONI investigators had acquired blood samples seized [...]

Kacper Szczepaniak, the young Polish rider who placed second in the U23 World Championships in Tabor and subsequently tested positive for EPO, tried to kill himself. Read more here. Honestly, if these kids are being told to dope by their fucking coaches, this is SHIT. Let them fucking race for GOD’S SAKE. The pressure they [...]

Monaco’s Cycling Federation has handed a two-year suspension to former Silence-Lotto rider Thomas Dekker for an EPO positive that resulted from the re-testing of an old sample last year. Dekker, who was licensed in Monaco, learned last summer that the UCI retested a sample from December of 2007, after doping officials found suspicious data in [...]

From Velonews.com: American cyclist Tom Zirbel announced on his blog Friday that he is retiring from cycling rather than continue an aggressive fight against doping charges. “I’ve decided to walk away from the sport,” he wrote, saying that he will not contest the 2-year suspension he received after testing positive for DHEA last year. Zirbel, [...]

More of the ongoing exchange between Mr. Zirbel and myself. I asked him, essentially, where he was at in all of this. This is his reply. From: Tom Zirbel Obviously, my life has been turned upside down since that day in mid Nov. in which I received the news of my positive ‘A’ sample. But [...]

We got an unsolicited email from Mr. Tom Zirbel recently regarding recent post of ours. The title alone is enough to tell you the direction it took, the author called it: Another one eats it. The tone was tough as we don’t often pull our punches. From: Tom Zirbel Hey man, I’ve been getting brave [...]

I missed actually watching this program because 1) I pretty much can’t think of any reason to watch Larry King Live, and 2) I have no life. Now that we’ve cleared that up… Landis appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live television show on Thursday night for an interview after the French justice system issued a [...]

It has been some time since I’ve checked in here. A long while in internet times even. This deserves attention however. There is nothing bourbon about this Jim Beam Red Stag. In desperation, with the shelves of the liquor store bare from a week long snow storm that has more or less paralyzed the city [...]

Flock together, or so the saying goes… Ricco’s babymomma tests positive for CERA. Shit, that’s soooo 2008! What, was there some juice leftover from ’08 in the bottom of Ricardo’s gear bag? Think what you will, but I’m not so convinced The Cobra learned his lesson, let alone repent for his sins. Should he return [...]

I don’t know who these guys are, but I like their style. Read about them here: ritteracing.com/story. Check out the kick ass looking bike they’re selling here: ritteracing.com/ritte-bicycles. They like Belgium. I like Belgium. We all like Belgium. So, I’m watching football the other night while trying to get a head count of who exactly [...]

About a week back in my life of Second Year Law Student Dumbness, I came home after a final exam in Constitutional Law and popped in the Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2003 DVD. Because that shit gets me stoked. One hell of a race that year. Actually, it’s one hell of a race most years. Hamilton came up [...]