Stories by Neal Rogers

• Posted: Sun, Feb 24th
  Soigneur: Leogrande confessed to me last summer.
  A former team soigneur says Rock Racing’s Kayle Leogrande told her last July that he used performance-enhancing drugs at Wisconsin's International Cycling Classic, also known as Superweek.
• Posted: Fri, Feb 22nd
  The Tour of California peloton is sporting the season's latest styles
  It wouldn’t be California without sizing up everyone’s appearance, so here is one observer’s take on the new-for-2008 designs unveiled at this year’s Amgen Tour of California. With all the problems our sport has faced over the last few years, perhaps it’s no wonder ...
• Posted: Thu, Feb 21st
  Stage 4 reduces the field even further
  Toyota-United’s Dominique Rollin may be celebrating Thursday’s 7 1/2-hour march as his best-ever day as a professional cyclist, but he’s likely the only rider in the Amgen Tour of California peloton to feel that way.
• Posted: Tue, Feb 19th
  Amgen Tour of California: A day in the team car
  With an available seat, Health Net-Maxxis team director Mike Tamayo offered VeloNews's Neal Rogers a spot in its Tour of California caravan vehicle for Tuesday’s wet stage from Santa Rosa to Sacramento. What follows is his account of a day riding with Tamayo and team ...
• Posted: Tue, Feb 19th
  Rock trio appear at stage start
  Rock Racing’s Tyler Hamilton, Oscar Sevilla and Santiago Botero may have been denied a start at the Amgen Tour of California, but the trio — along with teammate and fellow non-starter Kayle Leogrande — have been a common sight along the race route and at the start and ...
• Posted: Sat, Feb 16th
  Sevilla, Botero and Hamilton will not ride
  It may be the smallest team to line up for the Amgen Tour of California, but Rock Racing has managed to be the biggest story on the eve of this country’s largest stage race. Team owner Michael Ball announced late Saturday that the team would start only five of the eight ...
• Posted: Sat, Feb 16th
  Ball: It's all or nothing
  Rock Racing team owner Michael Ball insisted Saturday that his team will start with all eight of the riders whose names he submitted to race organizers — including Tyler Hamilton, Oscar Sevilla and Santiago Botero — or none at all. “We live as a team, and we’ll die ...
• Posted: Sat, Feb 16th
  High Road has high hopes for '08
  At an afternoon event hosted by Phil Liggett in Palo Alto, California, Team High Road presented its entire men’s and women’s 2008 teams. With 29 men and 13 women hailing from 14 different nations, 41 riders in all were presented, in three segments: the women’s team, its ...
• Posted: Fri, Feb 15th
  Third Amgen Tour of California poised as best yet
  It’s been the biggest race in North America for the past two years, and the third edition of the 650-mile Amgen Tour of California, held over a north-to-south route from February 17-24, will be no exception. This year’s Tour of California field includes two-time and ...
• Posted: Fri, Feb 15th
  Rock Racing stars absent from ATOC starting list
  With AEG’s announcement of the start list for this year’s Amgen Tour of California comes the revelation that Rock Racing, the revamped ...
• Posted: Thu, Feb 14th
  Versus kicks off 2008 cycling schedule with Tour of California
  Daily footage of the Amgen Tour of California will kick off Versus’ 2008 cycling coverage, which will again include many of the sport’s biggest events as well as live daily coverage of this year’s Tour de ...
• Posted: Thu, Feb 14th
  AEG's dilemma: ToC organizer speaks on Astana riff
  The exclusion of Astana from any events hosted by the Amaury Sport Organization in 2008, including the Tour de France, put Amgen Tour of California organizer AEG in an unusual situation. This year’s race kicks off Sunday and marks the first U.S. appearance by the new ...