Congrats to the Slipstream-Chipotle Pro Cycling Team! They’ve been invited to the 2008 Tour de France. That’s a big deal. Paris-Nice just ended and Vaughters had this to say about the race in a recent VeloNews interview. "I feel relieved after all the work we put in. We proved we are one of the better teams in the world right from the start all the way through Tirreno, but we had a mediocre Paris-Nice, of all the friggin' races to have go sideways on us!! So of course that worried me a bit. But anyway, the bigger picture has been…

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Back in the day, ages ago when I worked in Europe for part of the year, I tended to end up in France right around the time of the Paris-Nice bike race. Back then, the only way to see the race was to be somewhere other than the US at the right time. These days my how things have changed—we can all tune in to Versus to see the Clif-sponsored Slipstream-Chipotle squad compete in their most important European race to date. Seemed like whichever Paris-Nice stage I made it to, it was always wet and cold. Race fans call Paris-Nice…

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This just in from Alex, the Vermont Frost Heaves’ President & GM. In Quebec City on March 27-30 the American Basketball Association will play its Final Eight Championship where the Frost Heaves/Millrats rivalry will likely take center stage. style="float: right; padding: 10px 0px 10px 10px;Since I last checked in with the blogosphere, the Vermont Frost Heaves have won 17 of 18 games to close out the regular season. The only nagging issue with our 32-4 record is that all four of those losses have come to the same team, our neighbors in what some of us in Vermont like to…

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This game report just came my way from Adrian Mateo of Clif Bar Team Lacrosse. As some of you know I’ve got a soft spot for lacrosse. It’s a fantastic sport—full of action and all sorts of fun stuff. We’ve had an under-the-radar lacrosse program running out of Clif Bar & Co for some time now, so in ’08 it just made sense to make things more official. Here’s the first Clif Bar Team Lacrosse blog entry. Enjoy. You heard it right, the newest addition to Team Clif Bar, Clif Bar Team Lacrosse, kicked off their 2008 season on Tuesday…

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It’s blog time in a BIG way. Amy has asked me a couple times when the Tour of CA blogs will be ready—I think she gave me the stink-eye last time she walked by the TCB pod. I’m a little scared of Amy. Truth is, I’d been meaning to get a ToCA story up earlier than now, but it just wasn’t in the cards. Instead, I got dealt a nasty case of the flu—I think my mother-in-law brought an extra-strength North Carolina influenza to the house as some sort of sinister gift. Well, touché. I got got good. After feverishly…

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