Lest One Think It's Not All About Lance

John Everett said:

Last week I sent this in an email to [email hidden], the contact
address for the sports department of the Chicago Tribune:

The Seattle papers are only slightly better. They have printed a few small
blurbs on the race so far, but no mention in the TV listings. I was
gratified to read a short article about Fred winning stage 9, though.

Just a note, but I am also a Formula 1 fan, and that gets about the same
amount of coverage as bike racing does.

Of course, there's acres of space dedicated to detailing the Mariner's worst
season ever every day in sickening, minute detail. Puzzling, because there
can't be more than 10 people left that are still interested in that group of
losers.

John Everett <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Last week I sent this in an email to [email hidden], the contact
address for the sports department of the Chicago Tribune:

"I noticed that today (Thursday, May 13) for the first time you've
listed the live Giro d'Italia coverage on OLN. The race has been
broadcast since Saturday, but you seem to have just figured it out.

"I've also been somewhat disappointed by the lack of coverage of
what is arguably the second most important bike race in the world. I
found one little item about Gilberto Simoni's stage 3 win, but no
daily listing of stage results or GC standings."

This morning there was finally a "Cycling" listing on the "Scoreboard"
page. First listing: "Wednesday's Results, Languedoc-Roussillon". It
listed the first ten plus Lance, in 67th place.

This was followed by Stage 10 results from the Giro, but only the
first three, plus Freddy in 12th. They did also list the top three in
GC.

It took eleven days of racing for them to finally get around to
listing the Giro, yet Lance appears in a minor race and that gets top
billing. I'm guessing if Lance had chosen to skip L-R, we'd still be
waiting for Giro news.

jeverett3<AT>earthlink<DOT>net http://home.earthlink.net/~jeverett3

Funny that... but here I am checking rbr, and there are NO posts on
Stage 11 of the Giro, where a young Italian climber surprised everyone
by going solo to win the stage ending in Pantani's hometown. But there
is plenty of tdf talk, a thread on the 10 seconds Armstrong lost in
today's stage of the L-R, and US Postal's adventures with the
wind-tunnel.

As a cycling fan, I hope it'll be anyone but Lance for the maillot
jaune this year.

"HardwareLust" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Of course, there's acres of space dedicated to detailing the Mariner's

worst

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season ever every day in sickening, minute detail. Puzzling, because

there

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can't be more than 10 people left that are still interested in that group

of

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losers.

9 plus the guy who modeled his ex-wife's dress ebay?