Tag Archives: Lance Armstrong

we on the sofa

Posted on March 5, 2013 by rustichello

The final scene in John Sayles’ Eight Men Out features John Cusack (as Buck Weaver) sitting on some bleachers watching a not even minor league baseball game. He’s watching the center-fielder and listening to some fans make small talk about who the center-fielder is, … Continue reading →

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worthy burden

Posted on January 15, 2013 by rustichello

Ever read a Clive Cussler novel? There was a summer somewhere in the 1990s when I read quite a few of them, probably a dozen or so. Over the last fifteen years or so I have dabbled occasionally with Dirk … Continue reading →

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How do you like them apples?

Posted on October 19, 2012 by rustichello

The recent compilation of fifteen years worth of scuttlebutt and allegation by the USADA regarding Lance Armstrong contains no real surprises. Most of the doping stories and conspiracy theories have been mapped out previously, especially by L’Equipe editor Pierre Ballester … Continue reading →

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may the odds be ever in your favour

Posted on September 27, 2012 by rustichello

Recently my brain has been on strike, it won’t do what it was doing a few weeks ago, it’s not doing what I ask it to do. I tried very hard the other night to read Black Mass, the John … Continue reading →

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