Posted by Zach Bigalke on June 30, 2011 · 1 Comment
Cycling is unique in that the climax of its season comes not at the end of the season but dead center in the heart of the calendar. It isn’t the Tour Down Under in January or the Giro di Lombardia in October that the top riders of the road dream about. No, it is the sunflowers dotting French countryside in July that captivates the imagination, the high Alpine and Pyrenean passes that separate the contenders from the pretenders.
It is a rite... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on June 30, 2011 · 1 Comment
Cycling is unique in that the climax of its season comes not at the end of the season but dead center in the heart of the calendar. It isn’t the Tour Down Under in January or the Giro di Lombardia in October that the top riders of the road dream about. No, it is the sunflowers dotting French countryside in July that captivates the imagination, the high Alpine and Pyrenean passes that separate the contenders from the pretenders. Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on January 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment
There was no way he was getting away with absolution, no way that this could be glossed over and cast aside as a fluke. When red flags go up in an anti-doping drug test, there is no margin for allowance when it comes to certain chemicals. So when we first learned of Alberto Contador’s positive result from the second rest day of a 2010 Tour de France which he would ultimately win by a slim margin over Andy Schleck, it was almost inevitable four... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on October 21, 2010 · 3 Comments
Wednesday morning really left me with a lot of time to think, and boy was there plenty to think about. I was up before 4:00 am, waking up to drive my wife to the airport for a week away on business. (Sweetheart that she was, having been up awake all night unable to sleep, she had a cup of coffee in hand for me as soon as I walked in the kitchen.) As I drove home in the pre-dawn fog of a cool autumnal morning, her plane turned northward for the short... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on October 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
My voice is still hoarse five days after the fact. Saturday saw the eyes of the nation turn toward Eugene, and I had the pleasure of being amongst a crowd that numbered just under 60,000 to witness the Oregon Ducks take on Stanford in a matchup with more than just Pac-10 implications. Perched 14 rows up in section 9, I was treated to a free seat in prime location as the two top-ten powers waged battle.
It was the sort of game in which fans hit every... Read More
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