What do you expect from a city where 95% of the police force is named ‘Fred’?

You really got to the Crux of the matter, Redford.

Great article. It really can’t be overstated how much worse the P-R pavé is than any of the cobbled sectors are in Flanders. The P-R cobbles are often referred to as “babies’ heads.”

I could easily see Sagan’s cobbled classics campaign this year marking the beginning of a post-Cancellara/Boonen reign of terror over those races for the next 5 or so years provided he remains sufficiently motivated and doesn’t get too bogged overthinking the tactics.

Maybe this year we will finally get some damn rain for Roubaix. I think I read somewhere that Boonen is the only person in the pro peleton to have ever ridden Paris-Roubaix in the rain. It’s been that long.

http://stevetilford.com/2013/10/24/unb…

Horner’s win in the 2013 Vuelta strikes me as pretty blatantly doping-aided.

When can we expect Greg Howard’s “An Adult’s Guide to Learning How to Run”?

Not fair. I lent my jacket to a cold homeless guy and all I got was lice.

Don't look now, but Fabiano Caruana (American born, lives in and plays for Italy) has won an amazing six games in a row—one of which came at Carlsen's expense—at the Sinquefield Cup, which, the author notes, is being billed as the strongest tournament in history. Right now, Caruana's live rating is 2830 t0 Carlsen's…