94th Giro d’Italia/07-29 May 2011 Throughout the course of the Giro d’Italia, Sports Nickel’s resident Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America will offer his news and notes on the action from the first grand tour of the 2011 cycling season…
What do Pete Rose, Justine Henin and Riccardo Riccò have in common? Zach takes a look at that question and more in this week’s edition of NTSF…
There was no way he was getting away with absolution, no way that this could be glossed over and cast aside as a fluke. When red flags go up in an anti-doping drug test, there is no margin for allowance when it comes to certain chemicals. So when we first learned of Alberto Contador’s positive [...]
Zach is back after a three-week absence with thoughts on the Australian Open, World Cup skiing and SI’s recent expose on Lance Armstrong…
So I spent the weekend traveling into the land of the Giants. As Dickens said, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Hell, I’ve taken trips to Vegas that wound up being less eventful than this weekend. It was my first trip ever to San Francisco, coming three weeks on [...]
The sports world is in another one of those moments in the year where everything begins to crunch together at once for fans in the United States. The NBA joined the NHL this week in starting its regular season. College football enters its stretch drive, while the NFL prepares for its second half of the [...]
Wednesday morning really left me with a lot of time to think, and boy was there plenty to think about. I was up before 4:00 am, waking up to drive my wife to the airport for a week away on business. (Sweetheart that she was, having been up awake all night unable to sleep, she [...]
