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• SportsWriter.Net Hangs with Lance Armstrong and Team RadioShack
  December 22nd, 2009
  

  Sportswriter.Net was privileged this month to have a day to ourselves with Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer and the crew of Team RadioShack at their inaugural training camp in Tucson, Arizona. Here’s a quick taste of what we saw. You can read more about it, see our exclusive photo gallery from the Tucson training camp for [...]

• Dodger Stadium Rainouts
  June 4th, 2009
  

  I was raining prior to today’s 1-0 Dodger home victory over the Arizona Diamonbacks. According to the Dodgers Media Guide, here are the Dodger Stadium rainouts: 4/21/67 vs St. Louis Cardinals 4/12/76 vs San Diego Padres 9/10/76 vs Atlanta Braves 9/11/76 vs Atlanta Braves 5/8/77 vs Philadelphia Phillies 5/9/77 vs Philadelphia Phillies 8/17/77 vs San [...]

• Power Rankings Quotation – Pass Me A Coffee Squeegee to Wipe Off My Computer Screen, Please
  July 30th, 2008
  

  OK, on the eve of taking my family to tonight’s Dodger game against the San Francisco Giants, I had a painful coffee-spraying guffaw, courtesy of Larry Dobrow the CBS Power Rankings: You know how y’all assume the writer of these rankings is completely biased against your favorite team? Well, let me come right out and [...]

• Thurman Munson Memorabilia To Be Auctioned
  May 19th, 2008
  

  Leave it to the illiterates at USA Today to title a story Ex-Yankee catcher’s memorabilia goes to auction. Ex-Yankee catcher? Ex?!? Made me think of some x-rated expletives! Thurman Munson never played for any other team. When he died in an airplane crash he was the captain of the Yankees. He died a Yankee. A [...]

• Thurman Munson, Carlton Fisk and Urban Legend Forensics
  May 19th, 2008
  

  I have never seen an article like Rob Neyer’s Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk today about a football or basketball story. Baseball box scores never die. Neyer does a spectacular forensic study in his new book “Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends“ of a story I read years ago about Thurman Munson and repeated [...]

• The SportsWriter.Net Baseball Wire
  March 12th, 2008
  

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• What’s New in Baseball Today
  March 2nd, 2008
  

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• Amgen Tour of California 2008 – Stage 1 Video
  February 22nd, 2008
  

  See also Amgen Tour of California 2008 – Prologue Video

• Amgen Tour of California 2008 – Prologue Video
  February 22nd, 2008
  

  Amgen Tour of California 2008 – Prologue Video

• Poet Robert Frost on Baseball’s Doping Scandal?
  December 20th, 2007
  

  Forgive the mix of Scottish lyrics and the combination of Loch Lomond with Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken. The low road is the short “high” road of syringes of HGH and steroids, paved with lucrative contracts gained through performance enhancement… properly at the cost of immortalization in the shrine of Cooperstown’s Baseball [...]

• Muddy-Buddy, Not Just a Chex Snack
  December 6th, 2007
  

  Bicycle.net’s JT is obviously having too much fun than should be legally allowed at the Los Angeles Muddy Buddy. He also won a medal with his teammate. Click the link or the photo below to learn more.

• Welcome Hockey Columnist Gary Stevens
  November 13th, 2007
  

  Gary has been an avid sports fan since the age of 6. Having been to his first hockey game at age 8 in Los Angeles, he has followed hockey and the Los Angeles Kings since 1970, witnessing such memorable events as the Miracle on Manchester, and the career of Wayne Gretzky. He also participates as [...]

• Bicycle Racing – An American Growth Industry
  September 20th, 2007
  

  Who needs the French? Big time bicycle racing is taking root here in the United States. The Tour of California is raising its profile and this year saw the start of the new Tour of Missouri. Our own JT Fisher was on the scene covering the race for Sportswriter.net and Bicycle.Net. The big question has [...]