Lest One Think It's Not All About Lance

[John Everett]

Last week I sent this in an email to sports@tribune.com, 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

[Hardwarelust]

John Everett wrote:
> Last week I sent this in an email to sports@tribune.com,
> 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 Tezel]

John Everett <jeverett3@earthlink.DEFEAT.UCE.BOTS.net> wrote in message news:<ejipa0dgl6mte4vksnvvlsvi780rr61j3i@4ax.com>...
> Last week I sent this in an email to sports@tribune.com,
> 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.

[Carl Sundquist]

"HardwareLust" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
>
> 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.
>

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