Insert banjo music, and Burt Reynolds…

Have you stopped abusing your boyfriend???

I realized nobody gives a shit about cycling anymore

I care. (Luke Skywalker voice)

The Tour is my favorite yearly sporting event by far.

Lisk is the guy that should be writing Fathering magazine.

It is a doozy. Outside used to be a pretty respected magazine, but is now more or less a GQ for the outdoors folks like me. This was a hell of an article.

I had a subscription back 10+ years ago (when it was just starting to shift over), mostly off Krakauer’s name from Into Thin Air.

Reading the Mortensen/Krakauer kerfuffle, I can’t blame Krakauer for demanding his name be removed from the masthead. The reporter left out a rather important quote regarding Mortensen, and it seems that Keyes (the Editor) had a bit of a bone to pick with Krakauer. Of course, anything to drive magazine sales these days, I guess.

It is a doozy. Outside used to be a pretty respected magazine, but is now more or less a GQ for the outdoors folks like me. This was a hell of an article. I thought more would be made of it when it came out and then I realized nobody gives a shit about cycling anymore (Armstrong was on the cover a dozen times during his reign and his trainer had his own work-out column every month for awhile.) Also, Tour de France is about ready to start. Shit will get ugly. If anyone cares.

As a former triathlete, I followed a lot of the cycling events and surrounding stuff back when Lance was racking up tour titles. It’s been public knowledge that he was a rude asshole to everyone – sponsors, teammates, his former wife – the list is long.

I’ll read that article KC found tomorrow during one of my conference calls. I would never allow my kids to wear those yellow straps b/c I always assumed that whole thing was a sham, but I never really looked into it. Thanks KC.

I don’t care if he was clean or not. However, I do think it is a Sham (!) if he gets busted due to former teammates claiming they saw him use even though he never tested positive(except for that one time that was thrown out. I think. Been awhile.)

The Lance asshole stories have been out there since before he had cancer. And they’ve kept going since then. I’ve never met the man. I can only go by numerous stories and assume he probably is an asshole and that has no bearing on my opinion of him. He was the one of the most famous people in the world for a decade. He’s recognizable in public. I’m sure the chick that was blocking my way for too long of time of me getting my Cholula sauce at the store probably has a story of me being an asshole (I accidentally stepped on her foot after losing my patience and grabbed my bottle.) Nobody knows me. Story dies. Not the same with Armstrong.

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http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/celebrities/greg-mortenson/Truth-and-Consequences.html?page=all

That is only part of an interesting larger story. Outside Magazine (who Krakauer was an editor and wrote columns for years) countered and sort of defended Mortenson. Krakauer, who hadn’t written for the magazine in a few years, demanded that his name be taken off the masthead.