for some bizare reason it has become acceptable for our country to continue allowing children from poorer divorced american families to be denied equal access to both parents. not all americans can afford the high cost of legal fees for their divorces,and if one parent does not have a lawyer and the...

PREMESSA Nell'articolo "proposta irrevocabile di acquisto atto da ponderare attentamente" , pubblicato in queste pagine venivano mosse argomentate critiche circa l' impostazione dei fac-simili di PdA comunemente adottati censurandone l'indicazione minimalista. Le ragioni di queste critiche si fondav...

  Start of the season edition! Plus a plea to Gavia and Veloki for a real cool graphic!  Pleeeeeeeeeeeze? I'll use it again and again! Given that it's March 1st, this poll is organized a bit differently. We haven't had enough races to truly separate the teams- but we have seen en...

Eccoci al consueto appuntamento con il pagellone politicamente scorretto di X Factor . Siamo alla settima puntata del talent show e al sesto pagellone di Tele dico io . Qualcosa non torna, dopo vado a controllare cosa. Anzi, vado adesso. Ah, nella prima puntata non avevo parlato di pagelloni. Stavol...

First, read Chris' post right below mine. Done that? Follow along... Can you feel it? The magic in the air? With the deadline for entering the VDS competition only four three days away, can't you feel the frantic last minute fretting in the air? The hand-wringing, the second guessing? Maybe you're o...

Kim Kirchen   The Big Question- Can He Focus? I hadn't planned on writing about him. He's a good rider, no doubt. Excellent and underrated hilly classics guy: good climber with a wicked finishing sprint. Get past Valverde (ahem) and Cunego and he's on the short list right behind them (Rebellin,...

- Lopex   Translated: The biggest fun is prefun. Prefun as in anticipation. And, no, I'm not gonna link to Carly Simon. Especially that Starbucks YouTube vid. Obscenely bad. God I hope they closed THAT Starbucks down and poured salt on the rubble. I'm surprised the whole Starbucks empire d...

First in a series this week that looks at specific riders for the coming year. You'll get the hang of it. We'll start with some stars. Alejandro Valverde The Big Question- Will his Tour obsession mess with the rest of his year? It says here that Al is - arguably- THE best rider of this decade. (Argu...

America's team? At least back in Lance 2.0 we had the US Postal squad, staffed by American riders, hogging the American press. Now we have two marvelous American based teams, one of which (Garmin) has a pretty hefty quotient of Americans involved, and yet it's still Lance the press dwells on. So as ...

Soliciting help here (coughGaviacough)... could it somehow be an accident that Lampre are a virtual photonegative of Liquigas? Think about it: Lampre and Liquigas are Italy's sole Pro Tour outfits. Italian cycling is producing a steady stream of top-top-level riders in virtually every road cycling d...