Did Frankie drop the dime on LANCE?

The word on the street is that Andreau has testified under oath in Armstrong's lawsuit against the insurance company that is withholding his million bucks from winning those 3 triple crown races that he was in the hospital room when Armstrong fessed up to his docs that he had used the typical laundry list of pro peloton drugs (EPO, cortico and anabolic steroids, Human Growth Hormone). Damn, just after he dodged a bullet with the '99 retroactive "positive" EPO tests thru a combination of masterful spin and a report that "completely exonerated" him because they didn't follow the protocol for declaring someone positive. Well, no shit, they were just testing the samples for research purposes not to catch Armstrong. Without the deceitful L'equipe reporter no one would have been able to link the lab results to Armstrong's samples. But they did, so why were Armstrong's anonymously tested samples the ones that seemed to selectively show evidence of EPO use?

I could have used some EPO for the Blood, Sweat, and Gears century I was going to do this Saturday. One hundred miles and 13000 feet of climbing out around Boone, NC. I contacted them last week to make sure I could wait to sign up after I made it thru the weekend's racing. I didn't need a wasted $48 on top of a broken collarbone or serious road rash. They said they would probably close the on-line registration on Wednesday. I got on-line to sign up Sunday afternoon after the crit and sure enough it was already closed. Thanks douchebags.

I'll be parked in front of my friends HD 56 inch TV tomorrow morning at 10 to see which US soccer team shows up to play Ghana. The DOA team that played the Czech Republic or the team that had a respectable showing against Italy.