Bryn Lennon, Getty Images Mick Rogers – 2014 TDF Stage 16 Carcassonne to Bagneres-de-Luchon At the end of stage 11 in this year’s Tour de France, Michael Rogers’ advice to Andrew Talansky was “persistence wins all races.” Mick Rogers knows a thing or two about adversity. In 2007 he was thought of as a GC contender when he rode for T Mobile, but crashed out of the Tour with a broken collar bone. Immediately thereafter a protracted battle with mononucleosis made…
Andy Talansk off the bike in the stage 7 sprint finish Every summer I have a fight with myself that I predictably lose. The ever-present doping scandels and scoundrels of professional cycling make me vow to stop watching. Then the Tour de France begins and I cave in like a house of cards. Andrrew Talansky breathed a giant breath of life back into US hopes in European pro peloton when this promising young American stood on the top step of…
Originally Published July 14, 2014 at Modern Mormon Men I took a tour of the Sydney Fish Market a few years ago when I was in Australia. This fella was begging to be noticed. Blue lobsters occur at a rate of 1:2,000,000 as a result of a genetic mutation that results in an abnormal protein complexing with naturally occurring carotenoids. The resultant complex, known as crustacyanin, gives the lobster’s shell it’s cobalt blue coloration. Though truly impressive to look at, they say this…