SF News Cycling: Stage 5 Separates the Field It's one thing to sit in a team's slipstream or ride the momentum of the peloton, but the truest measure of a cyclist is how he (or she) performs in an individual time
SF News Cycling: Stage 4 Drags Down the Pace Snoo-zer. Aside from the final five seconds of the race, the most exciting part of Thursday's Stage 4 in the 2007 Amgen Tour of California was the scenery. Relatively undistinguished topography and the
SF News Cycling: Elevation Profile like an EKG in Stage 3 It was poetry in motion out there in Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California, like a ragged stream of consciousness. Hills, . . . hills-hills mark the stage most crucial to date, elevation profile
SF News Cycling: Stage 2 Delivers Capitol Thrills Let's face it, in the peloton of American spectator sports, cycling got cracked off the back on the first climb out of town and is just now working its way back into the
SF News Cycling: Stage 1 Ends with a Walk-off Homer Stage 1 of the Amgen Tour of California (TOC) started out in the brilliant sunshine of Sausalito but ended 156.2 kilometers (km) later under a cloud of controversy in downtown Santa Rosa.
SF News Cycling: Hometown Boy Makes Good, Again For most of the day it looked like a total Cinderella story for unknown Jason Donald, but when the very last rider of the 2007 Tour of California (TOC) prologue crossed the finish
SF News Cycling: The Prologue Sets the Stage Clip in sports fans, between the weather and the Amgen Tour of California (TOC), it's going to be a great weekend for cycling in the Bay Area. Whether you're tackling Mt.Tam on
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: Papa! Papa! The Italians, They are Coming! That's right Cutters, the Italians are coming, along with the French, the Spaniards, the Americans, the Germans, the Dutch-- yeah, even the Dutch. They're all going to be in the City this weekend
SF News Steroids, Again ESPN is also reporting Patrick Arnold, the man credited with developing THG is saying the very same thing about Barry. You know, we've softened a bit in our No Barry in '07 position.
SF News This Week in Barry: Here Comes the Judge Yesterday CNN reported that a federal grand jury is looking into whether Barry should be indicted for saying in the BALCO trial that he didn't knowingly and purposely do steroids when it's looking
SF News Barry's Big Lawsuit Blocked Or something like that. In the suit, Barry asked not that the book be banned, but that he get all the proceeds from it. Well, not him exactly, but a charity of his
SF News Where Do We Go From Here? Redux When we first heard news about the Bonds book, our first reaction was somewhere along the lines of "oh sh--, there goes the season." Once that passed, we got that sinking feeling in
SF News Say It Isn't So, Barry Very, very, bad. Pretty much everything everyone's always thought about Barry and steroids, even deep in the recesses of Giants' fans denying hearts, is confirmed in the book. Ass injections? Check. Started over
SF News Where's Barry? "dangerous drugs and controlled substances to friends and acquaintances, particularly athletes, for whom he kept no medical records or for whom the medical records were fictitious, inadequate or inaccurate." Ting denies the charges
SF News Barry Bad for Baseball? The question is being discussed in the MSM, the internets, and the shouting yak-fest shows on ESPN. A recent poll on ESPN.com showed that not only do people want him to retire,
SF News Gropinator 2: Judgment Day A British reporter's claims that Arnold Schwarzenegger first sexually assaulted her, then libeled her in the press when she told the LA Times about the incident, survived a first round of review by
SF News No Barry? The reasons for the Barrisimo’s announcement is his knees. Since last season, he’s had two knee operations, which is hard enough on anyone, let alone someone whose 40 years old. And
SF News We hope you're still with us/To see if they float or drown</a> Is baseball really the only sport that has a steroid problem or do you believe 350 pound lineman can run the 40 faster than Speedy Gonzalez on a meth bender? Does anyone really
SF News Enter Congress Now some of you might be wondering why congress would want to get involved in such a matter. After all, they haven't been able to figure out yet what happened to those WMDs,
SF News Bonds' Bombshell Bombshell In the interview, which begins with her offering proof of their relationship, she said that Bonds started taking the drugs around 1999 as a way to recover faster from injuries and because, well,
