Radio Shack joins forces with Livestrong
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Hm. Radio Shack. We have one here. We also have a Circuit City (at least the sign's still there). They both look about equally empty.
How much money is the deal worth? Anyone knows?
How much money is the deal worth? Anyone knows?
Scotttri said:
Guesses are Leipheimer, Horner, Popo, Hincapie. We need to see how much money the team has to guesstimate who they could hire in the first place. Will Lance get paid by the team? Two important datapoints we're missing.
I wonder where Bruyneel will surface after he leaves Astana at the end of the year? Anyone care to take a wild guess?????
Team Radio Shack is a classy bunch:
July 13th. AP
A former North Kansas City company CEO and director of RadioShack Corp. pleaded guilty to attempting to possess child pornography.
Ronald Elmquist, 63, pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Kansas City to a charge of trying to obtain illegal pornographic images on a laptop issued to him by QualServ Corp., a North Kansas City stainless steel fabricator that Elmquist used to lead.
Elmquist also resigned from the RadioShack board soon after Clay County prosecutors charged him with possession of child pornography in 2006.
July 13th. AP
A former North Kansas City company CEO and director of RadioShack Corp. pleaded guilty to attempting to possess child pornography.
Ronald Elmquist, 63, pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Kansas City to a charge of trying to obtain illegal pornographic images on a laptop issued to him by QualServ Corp., a North Kansas City stainless steel fabricator that Elmquist used to lead.
Elmquist also resigned from the RadioShack board soon after Clay County prosecutors charged him with possession of child pornography in 2006.
Radio Shack? seriously... Radio Shack?? LMAO!! i guess if someone is going to write you a check for a few million you should just shut up and ask where and how big do they want their logo but.. Radio Shack is such a crappy brand that just says.. cheap, bargain bin, shlock,.. oh, well... just hold your nose and cash the check i guess... Radio Shack?? wow!
but let me say that i do get my cables there though.. better quality and 1/10th the price than that MonsterCable BS you find at the BestBuy and FutureShops..
but let me say that i do get my cables there though.. better quality and 1/10th the price than that MonsterCable BS you find at the BestBuy and FutureShops..
When Disco stopped, Johann and Lance were enable to secure a sponsor... for their comeback people rumored that it could be big firms like Oracle, Apple, ..
It seems that they still have difficulty to obtain confidence of sponsors, even with their straight record "without" positive test !
It seems that they still have difficulty to obtain confidence of sponsors, even with their straight record "without" positive test !
LOL, the key word in your post that makes it BS is rumored. Why do you post this ****?poulidor said:
thebluetrain said:
Well, here's the thing: I happen to know this as fact. When Armstrong and Brunny Brun were searching for a sponsor during the last go-round, one large corporation simply decided that cycling is too hot to touch. Doping scandals or something like that.
Now why would a large sponsor care about that if Armstrong's team is clean as a whistle? Maybe the lawyer's thought any involvement in such a dirty sport opened them up to too much liability, or maybe word is getting around that Armstrong isn't so squeaky clean.
jimmypop said:
You may very well be right.. I don't know personally. I've already expressed my own opinion on whether LA doped or not so there is no need to re-visit that.
What I find bothersome however, is the number of people that basically start with the premise of:
"I can't stand/hate/dislike Lance Armstrong"
That's fine enough in itself, we're all free to like or dislike people as it suits us. Having said that, it seems to be the primary foundation of making him the target of why cycling has such an issue.
"He's the biggest doper ever". Yeah right, riders have been doping since the sport started with whatever they had available.
"He only won because of doping". Sure, along side all the other dopers he was racing (many of them officially sanctioned).
"It's a conspiracy, he's paid the "world" off to keep his cheating a secret". I don't think so.. he's big, but he's not that big.
"JB is the doping program king". Welll... what about all the other ds's that have actually had people caught????
"LA doesn't have enough integrity to admit it". As opposed to those that did AFTER they had been officially caught, or retired and decided to tell about it later? What about their integrity?
"Astana should not be in the tour". Because of Vino? Well Vino isn't there.. if the implication is that you can't have a team there that's had someone test positive, you might as well call the race off.
"He's an arrogant A**hole". I actually agree with that one.. which puts him in the same club as Cavendish, McEwen.. and I'm sure many others (in my opinion).
My most recent favorite was an almost instaneous (apparently) research of Radio Shack.. in which it was discovered that a CEO of that corporation committed a crime. LOL.. I'm sure all the other sponsors are completely clean in this respect (no I haven't looked).
It's just ridiculous the lengths that people will go to because they don't "like" someone. There are apparently a few people with an obsession problem regarding Lance Armstrong (both positive and negative I realize), and apparently have nothing more constructive to do than try to spread it.
What happened to objectivity. Whether he's good or bad, the only thing that seperates Lance from the vast majority of other riders is that he actually accomplished what he set out to do. Is that the basis for the dislike of him? I wonder (actually I don't... I think it has a lot to do with it).
None of this is directed specifically at you.
