Posted: Tue, Oct 31st
Tuesday's Trick-or-Treat Rant: Saiz it ain't so"If someone calls me up and says their toaster is talking to them, I don’t refer them to professional help, I say, ‘Put the toaster on the phone.’"—Sal Ivon, former manager of the Weekly World News
Okay, let me see if I’ve got this straight: Manolo Saiz is said to ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 27th
Friday's Foaming Rant: Oh, Colorado's calling meOh, Colorado's calling meFrom her hillsides and her riversAnd her mesas and her trees.When blizzards snap the power linesAnd all the toilets freezeIn December in the Colorado Rockies.— "Colorado," by Christopher Guest, Sean Kelly and Tony Hendra, from "Lemmings"
Nothing ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20th
Friday's Foaming Rant: A modest proposalThe prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of ...
Posted: Fri, Sep 29th
Industrial Wastrel: All things come to he who WaitsWasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon didI've got what I paid for now. . . ."Tom Traubert's Blues" by Tom Waits
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — It’s easy to go cyborg at Interbike. After a long day of stalking the show floor, translating MarketSpeak® into English, and ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 26th
Industrial Wastrel: O'Grady on InterbikeEditor at large Patrick O'Grady is roaming the halls of Interbike again this year and threatens to send occasional updates whenever he finds a tavern with wireless Internet access. Here's the first installment. — Editor
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — It beats me how they ...
Posted: Mon, Aug 7th
Monday's Bonus Rant: Beer and whineA thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.— W.C. Fields
I have an announcement to make.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a Foaming Rant lauding Floyd Landis for beer-drinking his way to a Tour de France-winning comeback.
I have subsequently tested positive for wine. ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 21st
Friday's Foaming Rant: Beer me, Floyd“Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: It's how drunk you get.”—Homer Simpson
None of my colleagues in the cycling press thought to ask Floyd Landis the two questions I wanted answered after Stage 17: What kind of beer ...
Posted: Fri, Jun 30th
Friday’s Foaming Rant: Printing the legend"Sports could go down the road of the performance principle, where all that matters is success, by whatever means, at what cost. If we continue on that track, sports will become spectacle; and some people like that. But I think most of us who love sports will lose interest in ...
Posted: Fri, Jun 2nd
Friday's Foaming Rant: Sports, entertainment and businessLiberty Seguros cycling team director Manolo Saiz, arrested on doping charges, was released Wednesday after being questioned by police, the Civil Guard said. — The Associated PressManolo Saiz has found a new sponsor to underwrite his ProTour team, barely a week after insurance ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 3rd
Friday's Foaming Rant: Special Monday fishing edition!Bait the hook well: this fish will bite. — William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
If you didn't see Tom Boonen stomping the pommes frites out of cycling's finest during the Tour of Flanders on TV Sunday, it may be because ESPN2 was busy in Manning, South ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24th
Friday's Foaming Rant: Road trip! No, road killEditor’s note: We don’t hear from editor at large Patrick O’Grady as often as we once did, and we had become accustomed to not seeing black Crown Vics full of gray suits and black sunglasses in our rear-view mirror. So imagine our surprise at receiving a "diary" of sorts ...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27th
Friday's Foaming Rant: Tyler 'toons"I call 'em as I see 'em, and if I don't see 'em, I make 'em up." — George Carlin as sportscaster Biff Barf
One of the bad things about traditional publishing is that once you’ve put something out there, whether it’s a story, a photo or a cartoon, well ...
