Potholes and Road Apples

A new rule - and three letters - for texting while driving.

And, the final finishers of the Tour de France, as presented by the Onion.

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis is back in the spotlight this week - a week before his two-year ban from professional bicycle racing is due to end.
An illustration of Landis is on the cover of Velonews which hit newstands and mailboxes on Thursday (and not yet available on their website.) An article about his return […]

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A widely circulated Associated Press report this morning quoted an official with Momentum Sports Group, owner of the Health Net-Maxxis domestic professional team, confirming the company is negotiating with Lancaster County native Floyd Landis for his return to cycling.
Team director Mike Tamayo, speaking at the Tour of Missouri race Wednesday, confirmed the talks.
“We are in negotiations with […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will be returning to professional cycling in January with the domestic Health Net-Maxxis team, Cyclingnews.com reported this morning.
Landis, 32, will be coming off a two-year suspension from the sport. The ban followed a positive doping test from the 2006 Tour de France which Landis won. The unconfirmed report comes at […]

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The Trek bicycle company, the nation’s best-selling bike company, has asked a court to intervene to allow it to sever its ties to three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, the Associated Press reported today.
Trek President John Burke said Tuesday that LeMond had a “troubling pattern of inconsistent business dealings” and that his outspokenness about […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will have to wait more than two months for a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Landis, of Farmersville, now living in California, won the 2006 Tour de France but was stripped of the title last year after arbiters concluded there was evidence of artificial testosterone in a urine […]

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Homeboy Floyd Landis will be back in the hearing room next week with his appeal of last year’s arbitration decision that stripped him of the 2006 Tour de France title.
The appeal before the international Court of Arbitration for Sport is Landis’ last effort to have the results of the stage 17 urinalysis test voided. A […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis has committed to a series of endurance mountain bike races this year while his doping appeal is being decided.
 
Landis accepted an invitation to compete in the 2008 National Ultra-Endurance Mountain Bike Series. The eight, 100-mile races will be held at different locations across the country. The closest will be the […]

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Farmersville native Floyd Landis this week filed his promised appeal to the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Landis is appealing the ruling of an arbitration panel that found in late September that Landis had used artificial testosterone during stage 17 of the 2006 Tour de France. Landis subsequently won the three week race. After the […]

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Lancaster County-native Floyd Landis has 30 days to decide whether to appeal yesterday’s ruling from a U.S. arbitration panel to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.
And, Floyd’s supporters at home are saying ‘give it up.’ This afternoon’s Lancaster New Era quote’s Landis’ former high school economics teacher and friend Dan Garrett calling the process […]

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