Stories by Patrick O'Grady

• Posted: Fri, Mar 24th
  Friday's Foaming Rant: Road trip! No, road kill
  Editor’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 ...
• Posted: Fri, Jan 20th
  Friday's Foaming Rant: A successful bike race
  Cross-country skiing's not a sport, it's how a f---ing Swede goes to the 7–Eleven. — Dan Jenkins, "You Gotta Play Hurt" The old mailbag these days is chock-full of proposed models for U.S. cycling to follow if it is to achieve success: NASCAR, Formula 1, World Rally ...
• Posted: Fri, Dec 30th
  Friday's Foaming Rant: The 2005 O'Grady Awards
  Every year about this time, we discover a curious e-mail buried deep within the quarantine folder here at VeloNews.com. Crawling with viruses, worms and other virtual cooties known to infest the less than fastidious in our dreadful digital age, it invariably is a communication ...
• Posted: Fri, Dec 2nd
  Friday's Foaming Rant: Pack your trunk
  "This is an in-house policy on how we do business in the State Patrol, and it's not something that we invite the citizenry to participate in. "— Jeff Goodwin, spokesman for the Colorado State Patrol, discussing a new 2500-rider cap during an interview with a Denver ...
• Posted: Fri, Nov 4th
  Friday's Foaming Rant: Captain Blood sails for California
  Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches himAnd makes me poor indeed.—William Shakespeare, Othello The predictably ...
• Posted: Fri, Oct 28th
  Friday's Foaming Rant: Ready for prime time
  To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. — Ecclesiastes 3:1 For the first time since 2000, Lance Armstrong wasn’t the star of the show as Tour de France organizers unveiled the 2006 route on Thursday in Paris. The seven-time Tour ...
• Posted: Fri, Sep 9th
  Friday’s foaming rant: Tanned, rested and ready
  "While I'm absolutely enjoying my time as a retired athlete with Sheryl and the kids, the recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side.” – Lance Armstrong, quoted on the Discovery Channel team’s website, about the likelihood of a comeback Okay, ...
• Posted: Fri, Aug 19th
  Friday's Foaming Rant: Cyclist of the year
  A few irate letter-writers have suggested that we keep politics out of cycling here at VeloNews.com, and we can see their points, once they’ve removed their Bush-Cheney 2004 caps. After all, the liars, cheaters and dopers infesting politics might teach cycling’s liars, ...
• Posted: Mon, Apr 11th
  Fatigue sends Creed stateside
  For every high in bike racing, like George Hincapie’s first podium at Paris-Roubaix, it seems there’s an equivalent low. Just ask Hincapie’s Discovery Channel teammate Mike Creed, who’s back in the States for a medical checkup after suffering through an extended bout of ...
• Posted: Fri, Apr 8th
  Friday’s foaming rant: Quoth the Raven: Djokker?
  I’m gonna whittle you into kindlin’Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six.–Tom Waits, “16 Shells from a .30-06” It had been a long Friday morning in the service of cycling journalism, or whatever the hell it is that I do here, and so when I saw a gap in the ...
• Posted: Fri, Apr 1st
  Friday’s foaming rant: Don’t mourn – organize!
  You will eat, bye and bye,When you've learned how to cook and to fry;Chop some wood, 'twill do you goodAnd you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye (that's no lie).- from “The Preacher and the Slave,” by Joe Hill The announcement that a Tour of California is ...