Canadian continental team Planet Energy has been tabbed as the 15th and final squad in the field for the Tour of Missouri, which begins Sept. 7 in St. Louis and ends Sept. 16 in Kansas City.

Planet Energy joins an All-Star…

With Columbia-HTC driving the split in the field Monday in Stage 3 of the Tour de France, and with Lance Armstrong making the selection while teammate Alberto Contador missed it, some interesting questions are set to be answered Tuesday in the…

While Fabian Cancellara crushed the field in the opening time trial and took the first yellow jersey, methinks Alberto Contador and the Astana team seized control of the 2009 Tour de France on Saturday in Monaco.

Contador finished second to Cancellara, 18…

This media vs. Lance Armstrong tift at the Giro d’Italia is becoming soooo high school, in a “That ’70s Show” kind of way. 

Cyclingnews.com reports today that some media covering the Giro are now boycotting Armstrong’s 140characters of Twitter wisdom because Armstrong has been Silent…

The Giro d’Italia to date has been an exceptional race, with excitment and drama supplied by …

– The American team Columbia High-Road with five stage wins: the opening stage team time trial,  two by sprinter Mark Cavendish, and one each by Edvald Boasson Hagen…

Columbia-High Road stole the thunder from defending team time trial champion Garmin-Slipstream in the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday.

The first team to start, C-HR thundered across the finishing line with its entire nine-man team in tact, setting…

So says cyclingnews.com.

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It’s been more than 20 years since an American won the Giro d’Italia (Andy Hampsten in 1988), and this, the 100th anniversary of the Giro, is as good a time as any for an American to don the maglia rosa…

This just in … Saxo Bank has joined big shooters Columbia-High Road, Garmin-Slipstream, Astana, Quick Step, Liquigas and Cervelo in the Tour of Missouri field.

In short, this field is stacked; there’s going to be some massive firepower on the roads…

From the Associated Press …

Kazakh federation to resume paying Astana wages

By PETER LEONARD

Associated Press Writer

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Kazakhstan’s cycling federation said Thursday it will resume paying salaries to Lance Armstrong’s Astana team now that it has received money owed…