Despite the well-publicized doping scandals in cycling, USA Cycling CEO Steve Johnson is bullish on the future of the sport in the United States.

Velonews.com editor Charles Pelkey interviewed Johnson and wrote a lengthy story on the velonews website. Part of…

Former Lance Armstrong mountain lieutenant Roberto Heras has joined the ranks of the ex-cyclists, quitting the sport at age 33 after serving a two-year suspension for doping.

Heras was one of Armstrong’s main men in the mountains on the U.S. Postal…

OK, I should have  written “Dopers Suck” in the headline for this blog, just as it appears on my new cycling socks (the same type members of Slipstream-Chipotle wore at the Tour of Missouri, above), but something about my old-school newspaper sensibility…

Cyclingnews.com has a nice two-part story online about U.S. national champion Levi Leipheimer, who finished third in the Tour de France in 2007 and followed Johan Bruyneel and TdF champ Alberto Contador to the Astana Cycling Team after the Discovery Channel…

While Jan and Vino and their doping pals have skipped out on cycling, Tyler Hamilton will be back in the saddle next year.

Velonews reports that the American has signed with Rock Racing, owned by happenin’ jeans maven Michael Ball. The team…

Joseba Beloki, a three-time Tour de France podium finish, is hanging up his bicycle at age 34.

“I leave with my head high and proud of all I have accomplished,” The Associated Press quoted Beloki as saying. “Like in all…

Just saw this on the Associated Press wire. Apparently, Alexandre Vinokourov is calling it quits.

Kazakh cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov reportedly retiring after receiving doping ban

PARIS (AP) — Kazakh cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov is reportedly retiring from the sport after being…

The Kazakhstan Cycling Federation has given Alexandre Vinokourov a one-year suspension for his positive doping tests at the 2007 Tour de France.

Vino’s sample after winning the individual  time trial in Stage 13  tested positive for a blood transfusion. Vino…

Sometimes in watching sports and getting all indignant about this or that, we forget that these are living breathing people we’re talking about, people with feelings, hopes and dreams.

So it is with Michael Rasmussen, who according to the Dutch…