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Brown Bag it, Baby
Larry Brown Sports provides coverage from the world of cycling – including stories related to the Tour de France.
A former MLB All-Star could be preparing to embark on a second career as a would-be Olympian. Longtime MLB outfielder Carlos Gomez is currently training as a cyclist. Gomez’s goal is to make it to the Dominican Republic national championship, …
The first stage of the Tour de France kicked off on Saturday, and it didn’t take long to produce an enormous crash thanks to one poorly-positioned spectator. The spectator had a sign and got right up to the side of the track just as the riders …
Performance-enhancing drugs played a large role in both the rise and the fall of Lance Armstrong. Even though his use and subsequent lies about taking substances have helped turned Armstrong into a figure despised by many, he still is not completely …
Lance Armstrong and his longtime girlfriend Anna Hansen are finally planning to tie the knot. On Tuesday, Armstrong shared a photo on Instagram that showed Hansen with a ring on her left ring finger. The former cyclist captioned the photo “She …
Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten appears to be recovering well from her nasty crash during the women’s road race at the Olympics in Rio on Sunday. Van Vleuten was leading the race with under 11 km to go when she flipped her bike and landed on …
Tour de France leader Chris Froome had to sprint up one of the most difficult portions of the course on foot Thursday after a collision with a motorcycle left him without a bike for a short time. It was actually another rider who crashed into the …
An arbitration panel in Texas voted 2-1 against Lance Armstrong and awarded $10 million to SCA Promotions, a sports insurance company that helped contribute to the cyclist’s downfall. SCA Promotions paid Armstrong bonuses in 2002 and 2003 for …
Lance Armstrong and his girlfriend Anna Hansen have been caught in a lie about a driving incident in December where their vehicle hit two parked cars and left the scene. Aspen police say Armstrong’s car was identified as the one that hit two …
I can’t imagine how grueling one stage of the Tour de France is, let alone participating in 21 of them over three weeks. To say one of cycling’s more well known races is a test of physical endurance would be a mild understatement. Stage …
Vincenzo Nibali probably felt like he was on top of the world after winning stage 2 of the Tour de France Sunday, but one of the yellow jersey presenting girls quickly put him back in place. After receiving the yellow jersey for winning the stage, …
Spanish cyclist Eloy Teruel would have won the seventh stage of the Tour of California on Saturday if the race was one lap shorter. Teruel had a substantial lead over the other cyclists heading into the final lap, but he thought he was crossing the …
Cyclist Peter Sagan apologized after being criticized for pinching the rear of a girl on the podium following his second-place finish in the Tour of Flanders in Belgium on Sunday. Sagan finished second to winner Fabian Cancellara, who received a peck …
If anyone knows a thing or two about overcoming adversity and being hated, it’s Mike Tyson. Iron Mike came from nothing to become one of the greatest fighters to ever live. He also bit a man’s ear off and was one of the most disrespectful …
Lance Armstrong’s reputation is being destroyed more and more by the day. Most of us never believed him over the years when he vehemently denied using performance-enhancing drugs, but the seven-time Tour de France champion still had plenty of …
Lance Armstrong may have his sympathizers, but those operating Manly Library in New South Wales, Australia, are not among them. Holly Byrnes, a News Limited national TV writer, shared a photo on Twitter Sunday of a sign posted in the library that …
Lance Armstrong has decided he finally feels like admitting what we have all known to be true for many years — he’s a cheater. He seems to think that by coming clean in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he can begin the process of …
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