As a blogger about cycling and motorsports, I’m looking forward to Sunday.

The NASCAR season officially kicks off with the 50th running of the Daytona 500, and the first American cycling race of the season begins with the Tour of…

Sparks are flying even before the first pedal has been turned in anger at the Tour of California.

Rock Racing owner Michael Ball, he of the happenin’ Rock & Republic clothing company, says the team may pull out of the…

Apparently the organizers of the Giro d’Italia have had a change of heart. Two weeks after giving High Road Sports an un-vitation to the Giro, the RSA has now invited High Road to the Giro, the team announced Friday.

Velonews has the…

The area will be represented in the Amgen Tour of California by Michael Lange.

Dubbed Micro, the 5-3, 121-pound Lange will ride for Team Jelly Belly in the eight-stage race, which begins Sunday in Palo Alto with a short time trial.…

 From the Astana website …

Astana Not Invited by ASO

With surprise, disbelief, incomprehension, but dignity as well, Astana Cycling Team has been informed by the press of the non selection of the team for the races of ASO, including the…

Though the Astana cycling team is under new leadership with Johan Bruyneel at the helm, it has been barred from the Tour de France and other events organized by Amaury Sports Organization (A.S.O.), the A.S.O. announced today.

In a news…

Here’s the schedule for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Ride to Cure Diabetes program for 2008 …

Sonoma, CA June 26-29

Asheville, NC Aug. 8 - 10

Whitefish, MT Sept 11 - 14

Death Valley, CA Oct 16-19

Registration for the Sonoma…

As Post-Dispatch political reporter Jo Mannies reports, Missouri Lieutenant Gov. Peter Kinder has decided to drop out of Republican race to replace Gov. Matt Blunt, who himself opted to not run for re-election a couple of weeks back.

But Kinder will run…

Not sure whether this is a good thing or bad, half of the ProTour teams calling for a meeting with the three grand tours in the wake of the exclusion of four teams, including powerhouse Astana and High Road Sports,…

Pat McQuaid, the president of the Union Cycliste Internationale, says the Giro d’Italia’s un-vitation of Astanta, High Road Sports and two other UCI Pro Tour teams took the sport back ”20 years.”

Under the UCI Pro Tour format of the past few years,…