Boonen positive for Cocaine. Now why do I feel like I've heard that before? Oh yeah - my article on the eve of the '06 Tour of Flanders. And my apologies for the lack of work recently. "Real" work has been getting in the way....

Car:Driver::Barrel:Fish. Not being mistaken for this guy is reason enough to minimize your time behind the wheel: Short Schrift: My Secret Shame Ah, the old "cyclists are ruffians" argument. What color was that pot again? If it were possible to cheat the rules on the road in a car the way it is on a bike, drivers would [...]...

It's a question I've turned over many a time in my head. To an American, it seems like a gimme for lunks in shoulder pads. American football players are universally acknowledged as big, dumb sacks of meat, while most cyclists this side of the pond are skinny, smooth-legged oddballs with the means to buy three-thousand [...]...

Ah…now that's what I was waiting for. Tom Boonen comes through with the big win (30 meters clear in a sprint!) just to remind you that he's still the greatest classics rider of his generation. It's hard to pick a more elite group to come into the line with, too: the 06′ Roubaix winner and [...]...

Not sure how many of you were up on yesterday's comment thread, but to jackhammer the point through the floor, today's Cyclingnews post not once, but twice misnames Juan Antonio Flecha as the 2008 Flanders runner-up. This wouldn't be such a big deal if the race hadn't been four days ago. Jeff Jones, where are [...]...