As an ex amateur bicycle racer, I am not surprised by the two steps ahead nature of the dopers. The real question is how are sports going to deal with the future of performance enhancement, since steroids and EPO are just the leading edge. It won't be too long before genetic modification makes testing moot. Maybe sports bodies should just open the field up to legal drugs and forget about it. Seems wrong I know, but once everyone is using (like pro bicycle racers) then the field is level. Amateurs can still pick and choose since hopefully they are in it for the sport anyway.

Now that there is an ACTUAL world baseball tournament, what should we call the "world series?"

Here in the midwest we don't have much else to do except watch the mosquitos buzz around outside the screen porch.

Just because he played well in his last game, doesn't mean he's ready. I've watched most of OSU's games and the Memphis game was the first that they absolutely needed him to win. He'll certainly get a lot of money if he jumps and eventually will be a great player, but he has trouble holding his ground in the post, commits silly fouls and needs a lot of work on playing in the post. I'm surprised at all of the hype here (and I'm a buckeye fan), or maybe I'm not. It should be said that the buckeyes can win without Oden, but NOT without Mike Connely.

Frank

It would be kind of cool if they had to use the original players though. Shaq would have to go back and play 51 seconds for the Heat and the retired BB players would come back all fat and old. I don't know what the Maroons would do though.

Frank

Ummm. I can't believe that someone who has ever used an SUV would consider that a minivan has a space utilization problem. Not to mention that the minivan is the greatest bicycle carrying device ever invented.

Just try getting a bicycle into an Explorer.

Frank