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https://vault.si.com/vault/1990/11/05/vintage-whine-bad-bill-laimbeer-is-the-nbas-consummate-actor-and-psych-artist-hes-also-a-top-notch-player BAD BILL LAIMBEER IS THE NBA'S CONSUMMATE ACTOR AND PSYCH ARTIST; HE'S ALSO A TOP-NOTCH PLAYER Sports Illustrated -  NOVEMBER 05, 1990 BY  CURRY KIRKPATRICK It is road-trip time for the cutest couple in the Great Lakes and their pair of cute children. Time to suit up for the van ride from their house in Orchard Lake, Mich., to their house in Harbor Springs, Mich . That's right. There's a main home on a lake and a summer home high above another lake five hours away. The cutest couple in the Great Lakes may also be one of the richest . The night before in downtown Detroit, they had hosted, more or less, a Republican fund-raising dinner for 500 or so acquaintances, including the President of the United States, whose personally autographed photographs of himself on various occasions with them are framed and displayed throughout bot...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2020/05/09/how-dennis-rodman-was-forced-to-apologize-to-larry-bird-over-racial-comments-in-1987/?sh=5d611eaf7d72 Adam Zagoria  - Contributor When Dennis Rodman was forced to apologize to Scottie Pippen for violently shoving Pippen into a basket stanchion during the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals , that wasn’t the first time he was forced into apologizing to a big-name NBA star. Four years before the Pippen incident — and eight years before Phil Jackson told Rodman to apologize to Pippen before he joined the Chicago Bulls in 1995 — Rodman in 1987 was told to apologize to Larry Bird for racial comments, according to Rodman’s former agent Billy Diamond. While the Rodman/Pippen apology has been featured in ESPN’s The Last Dance , the Rodman/Bird apology is uncovered territory. After the Pistons were eliminated by Bird and the Celtics in Game 7 of the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals , Rodman was asked in the locker room about Bird’s performance ...

Sorpresa ma non carneade, il belga che non ti aspetti: Yves Lampaert, tre volte campione nazionale a cronometro, è la prima maglia gialla del Tour 109. Wout Van Aert, batte contro il tempo le sue nemesi, Tadej Pogačar, Filippo Ganna e Mathieu van der Poel, ma non basta: E la sua faccia sulla hot seat dice tutto. Settimo secondo posto stagionale per uno dei tre capitani della Jumbo-Visma. Prima vittoria in un grande Giro per il 31enne fiammingo, che ha chiuso i 13,2 chilometri del cronoprologo di Copenhagen - decima Grand Départ straniera del Tour de France - in 15'17" a 51,778 km/h di media. A 5" van Aert, a 7" Pogacar - il migliore fra i big per la generale, quarto a 10" Ganna, che - sportivamente - non ha cercato scuse nella foratura. "Non ho perso per questo" il commento del due volte iridato a crono. Del resto, gli era già successo nella crono - stravinta - di Milano al Giro 2021. Bravo e fortunato invece Lampaert, per un meteo più clemente rispe...

https://www.sport-e-cultura.com/2022/07/01/il-tour-il-giro-wimby-lo-scriba-il-mundial-82-e-allyson/?fbclid=IwAR1B_tj8eeEARdMmlZKgmNlFBmq5ajDQjiGyZZPFfxNC8VBOimv8rI6sVzg di SIMONE BASSO Sport e cultura - venerdì 1 luglio 2022 Taccuino di luglio scritto a giugno con le temperature di agosto. La definizione di riscaldamento globale, per il più grande iper-oggetto creato (?) dall’uomo, è addirittura rassicurante: questa specie di Pirocene è un incidente stradale di massa. L’umanità intera dentro l’auto: dobbiamo solo decidere a che velocità schiantarci. Fossimo l’animale più intelligente della Terra, ragioneremmo su una bella frenata, onde evitare un’estinzione simile (e contraria, nelle dinamiche) a quella dei dinosauri. Malgrado brontosauri e T-Rex non distruggessero l’ambiente per un bisteccone e un SUV. 1. 119 anni e non sentirli, anzi un giovincello, il Tour de France partirà con una tre giorni danese. Per euro (tanti, almeno 90 milioni spesi) e amore. Della Danimarca per la biciclett...

T https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-2022/preview/ By  Stephen Farrand  cyclingnews.com - June 20, 2022 When the route for the 2022 Tour de France was revealed last October, Tadej Pogačar , winner of the past two editions, was thrilled to see such a testing but balanced route. "It's pretty great," said the Slovenian. "From the first stage to the last stage, we have everything: sprints, echelons, cobbles, big climbs, small climbs and time trials.” Ten days out from the Grand Départ, Pogačar remains the favourite for the 109th edition of the Tour de France, with all his rivals still trying to find a weakness in his armour and a way to defeat him during the three weeks between Copenhagen and Paris. Pogačar's multitude of talents and his ability to race aggressively appear perfectly matched to the route of the 2022 Tour de France. The first week of racing has been described as a series of Classics, and Pogačar’s victories at Strade Bianche, Liège-Basto...

https://cyclopunk.blogspot.com/2013/11/daily-cycling-facts-06112013.html Wednesday, 6 November 2013 Frank Vandenbroucke Born in Mouscron, Belgium on this day in 1974, Frank Vandenbroucke - known as VDB - was one of the bad boys of professional cycling, but initially a charming and colourful one who was supported by legions of adoring fans. Sadly, that likable personality, along with the enormous talent he demonstrated early in his sporting career, would be destroyed by a succession of emotional and drug problems, and he died a tragic and early death. Aged four, Frank was hit by a car while riding his bike in the village of Ploegsteert and suffered injuries serious enough to require four operations and to give him problems for the rest of his life, yet his mother remembered years later how he hadn't cried until a doctor cut his beloved cycling shorts in order to be able to examine his leg. As a teenager, he tried athletics and showed talent, winning a regional schoolboy's champi...