For those who haven’t gotten the idea that American cycling is on the up-swing, consider Friday’s news about Team BMC.

The American continental team picked up the only at-large invite to the Tour of Romandie in Switzerland in late April/early…

Got this from Rock Racing …

For Immediate Release

Rock Racing To Launch Aggressive Internal Anti-Doping Program

Los Angeles, Calif. (Feb. 26, 2008) – Continuing its commitment to the sport of cycling and clean competition, Rock Racing today announced plans for an aggressive…

Winner Levi Leipheimer wasn’t the only American to star in the Tour of California. American cyclists put a made-in-America stamp on the third ToC.

– Christian Vandevelde had a breakout performance for Slipstream-Chipotle/H30 with a third-place finish overall, joining fellow American Leipheimer…

On the eve of the Tour of California, U.S. national champion Levi Leipheimer unveiled a petition (letleviride.com) aimed to get the Amaury Sports Organization to reverse its un-vitation of Astana — Leipheimer’s new team — to the Tour de France.…

Brazilian Luciano Pagliarini, the winner of Stage 4 into Columbia in the 2007 Tour of Missouri, finished atop the podium Saturday in Stage 6 of the Tour of California.

The Saunier Duval-Scott rider actually crossed the finishing line second behind High Road’s Mark Cavendish,…

2007 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has followed the lead of Levi Leipheimer and his Let Levi Ride campaign, launched when organizers of the Tour de France snubbed their Team Astana.

Contador’s supporters have launched Contador al Tour, which means…

As if there was ANY doubt that Levi Leipheimer was out to prove the Tour de France organizers wrong in snubbing his team …

Leipheimer, riding for Astana, crushed the field in the time trial of the Amgen Tour of…

In Stage 2 of the inaugural Tour of Missouri, Canadian Dominique Rollin found himself in a  successful 12-man breakaway that got a 17-minute lead on the peloton at one point.

But the Kodak Gallery-Sierra Nevada rider couldn’t find a way to beat veteran Georgie Hincapie in…

Rabobank’s Robert Gesink narrowly edged defending champion Levi Leipheimer of Astana for the stage win, but Leipheimer grabbed the yellow jersey as the overall leader in the Tour of California on Wednesday.

Gesink and Leipheimer finished 19 seconds ahead of…

While the so-called “rock star” among cycling sprinters, Tom Boonen of Quick Step, won the sprint to the finish line to claim Stage 2 Tuesday, cycling’s leading team in the anti-doping has its first yellow jersey as a force in cycling.

Tyler Farrar of…