Before the comment section fills up with the usual tedious reactions to any Deadspin cycling piece, I want to express how much this post reminded me of the thrill of watching Pantani in his prime. The doping revelations were a definite kick in the nuts (his along with all the rest), but man was he fun to watch.

Hey, Houston is alright.

This sounds like a horrible way to deal with DST.

LOL @ 5 feet.

Saw the news this morning, man, what a life Miller lived.

if they make a film about him, he should be played by Dean Norris.

Technically that is what a rocket is doing. It’s just completely ignoring the whole atmospheric lift phase of flight and powers through instead.

Oddly enough it was his height that initially drew me to him as well. As, I was one of the tallest drivers on the grid that I knew of at the time. And then I saw that Dan was even slightly taller than I was and had come up with all these ingenious ways to modify the car to suit him. (Later I was to meet Boris Said and…

No.
You and I just witnessed the results of Drew selling his soul.

The man was an absolute legend. Anything that could be done in motorsports he did. I don’t have many heros but Dan was one.

I’ve decided watching Bortles is the best because there is an element of comedy and danger to every play. Makes it exciting.

i don’t know why people who get so pissy about spoilers even look at anything these days. Trailers spoil, news spoil, any form of human interaction and discussion spoils.

The Bosch ICON’s are a bourgeoisie luxury wiper hellbent on putting down the proletariat Autozone store brand wipers.

The reason for Skipper’s resignation won’t change what he had done for Le Batard’s career.

You really need to get out more. I lived in Bozeman, Mt, there is an area called the crazy mountains that is around 40 miles in diameter and absolutely impenetrable except on foot/horse/mule or helicopter.

Psyched for Carlos Beltran. Glad he got his ring.

Congrats from a White Sox fan!

Came here to say this:

fair dinkum diddly doo then :)

Drew, thank you so much for the honesty in this column. Being upfront and honest about the shitty things we’ve done is important. I have a lot of things to atone for, too, and this is inspiration to keep working on being better.