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.
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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 February 17, 2011 · 1 Comment
So I just finished reading Pete Rose’s memoir/confessional, My Prison Without Bars, and it got my mind spinning in a couple different directions. We’ll discuss the obvious one — gambling and sports — soon enough this week. First, though, I would like to go over the concept of sports retirements from a different angle. Ol’ Charlie Hustle, of course, was doomed to retirement from baseball in any meaningful capacity when he received... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on February 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Much of my past week was spent waiting for Super Bowl XLV on Sunday and then on basking in the afterglow of the Green Bay Packers’ 13th NFL title. Yeah, I won’t withhold my full disclosure, if this is your first time stumbling along to my column. I was born a Cheesehead and I’ll die a Cheesehead. The times haven’t always been this good for Packer Nation — I was alive for just the most recent two championships, after... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on January 20, 2011 · 1 Comment
So here it is, Twenty-Eleven, and it’s about time I get the first edition of A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America out of my brain and into the vortex for the fanatical consumption of the masses. One week’s absence was anticipated, as I have been compiling my first treatise on sports in the ardent hope it hits the presses by this spring. The lack of the column a second week was due primarily to finally catching the cold that my wife has been... Read More
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