I just finished watching the replay of today's Tour de France. Today's stage featured probably the most famous climb in cycling, the finish at L'Alpe D'Huez. They hadn't been here in two years and it's always a pretty good time when they show up. This is a stage that packs a lot of history as Hinault has won here. Lance won this stage twice, the last on in insane time trial. The yellow jersey this year coming in was Frank Schleck, who won here the last time.
















It's just an awesome stage. 21 hairpin turns, crowds numbering towards a million, nutbags running aside the bikes. All this after biking about 185 km to climb an Alp. Basically, it's chaos. Today was no different. Carlos Sastre attacks right at the bottom of the hill and swept to a margin of over two minutes to claim the yellow jersey from Shleck the Greater. Keep your eye on Andy, the Lesser Schleck, who finished second today. That kid can fly and looked like he could ride it again afterward.

Really neat stuff. With the final time trial coming up, it looks like Cadel Evans of Australia will win.

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Every once in a while, I'll be watching a music doc and Bob Gruen tends to show up. Who's Bob Gruen? Well, he's a photographer who shoots terrific rock n'roll pics.

I was half-watching a cable news show last night when someone casually mentioned that John Edwards had a love child. WTF? So, I searched the crawls for the next 10 minutes to find some sort of breaking news. It seems the Enquirer broke the story. But I'll be damned if I see any mainstream media outlet touching it.

Rush visits "The Colbert Report". Backstage, they play "Tom Sawyer" on "Rock Band".

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It's hard to believe the Browns started training camp today. Also hard to believe the EPL starts in three weeks. Here is the fall TV schedule.

Man U and Chelsea at 9:00 on Sunday, September 21. Mark that one down. Browns don't play a roadie until 4:00 that day.

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