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Cyclists use a cutesy term to describe the complete loss of energy during a road race. They've "bonked." Let's be honest. American Floyd Landis didn't just bonk when he surrendered his maillot jaune, the Tour de France's yellow leader's jersey, during a steep Alpine climb last Wednesday. He tumbled from 1st to 11th place, a stunning 8 minutes, 8 seconds behind the leader. He giga-gagged. Choked. Race pundits didn't just write Landis off as a contender; they hurled him off the Col du Galibier. Even Landis seemed to accept his fate...
...call. “We just got home and there was a message from a guy named Marty,” my Dad said. “He found your wallet.” The next thing I knew, I was knocking on a door in suburban New Jersey. Out came a smiling man who glowed with warmth in the brisk night air. “You must be Adam!” he exclaimed as he squeezed my hand, “Come in!” I felt like I was being invited into the house...
Tour de France Is Landis the next Armstrong? U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis powered through the Pyrenees last week, emerging with the Tour leader's yellow jersey. But his arthritic hip and the arduous Alps stand between him and a top-of-the-podium finish in Paris on July...
Your last movie, Jersey Girl, starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, flopped. Did it suffer from the Bennifer whirlwind? To a degree. No matter how much we tried, the marketing seemed to say, "Remember the movie [Gigli] with those two people you can't stand anymore that came out a few months ago? Here's even more...
...grabbed my jersey and I told him to stop," Zidane, 34, explained. "I told him if he wanted my jersey, I'd give it to him after the match." There would be no after for Zidane, however, once the insults he says Materazzi directed toward his mother and sister worked their dark magic. "He said it once, and I walked away. But you hear it a second time, a third time... I'm a man, and I reacted to them. Those words were harder than acts...