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Q&A: Hieroglyphics' Casual on Being a '#RapGod' and Battle-Rapping in Middle School

Casual​ For his latest project, the Oakland-raised rapper Casual has anointed himself a rap god. It's a lofty and arrogant title, but one that the Hieroglyphics crew's undisputed battle champ has earned the right to coin, having now clocked up a near-20-year recorded career with new album He T ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Hires Famous S.F. Attorney, New USPS Sponsorship Details Emerge

It's all about who owned what and when.​Lance Armstrong has added two more San Francisco attorneys to his defense team to help ward off possible charges that he was doping while cycling the Tour de France. Additionally, SF Weekly has more details on the 1996-2004 U.S. Postal Service cycling t ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Doping Story Points Toward S.F. Company

It's about the EPO.​CBS' 60 Minutes shook the sporting world Sunday with extraordinary doping accusations involving the seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. According to Armstrong's former teammate Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong dosed his own teammates post-race with droppers-full of st ... More >>

San Francycle: Riding to Work Doesn't Make You an Athlete

​If you're like us, you spend an hour or so on your bike every day, from home to work and then back, then maybe to the supermarket, and occasionally over to a friend's house or up to Corona Heights to watch the sunset. Wouldn't it be neat to keep track of your rides so you know how far you've gone ... More >>

International Peloton Skips S.F. for First Time in Decade

No Shaven-legged, 2-percent-body-fat Europeans allowed!​For the first time in 10 years, the international professional bicycle-racing circuit will bypass San Francisco, while today's stage three of America's biggest cycling event, the Tour of California, is skipping the city with a jaunt from Aubu ... More >>

Terry Helbling's Victims to Get Art Back Today

​No one would confuse the glum, imposing hunk of concrete that is the Hall of Justice with an art gallery. But today it is. And if more galleries had sheriff's deputies and metal detectors at their doors -- well, then the Hall of Justice wouldn't be so well-stocked with purloined paintings. Today' ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Case Takes BALCO Investigator Jeff Novitzky To France

Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting. ​Jeff Novitzky, the USDA investigator famed for pursuing Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroids case, was in Lyon, France this week chasing evidence that cycling star Lance Armstrong doped in violation of multimillion dollar sponsorship agreements with the ... More >>

Lance Armstrong-Gavin Newsom Meeting Great Distraction From Doping Investigation

What, Lance worry?​Lance Armstrong's whirlwind publicity tour of San Francisco this week was a textbook example of a damage control strategy in which a public figure faced with scandal strenuously seeks to act as if there aren't any problems, according to PR experts quoted by the Associated Press. ... More >>

Levi Leipheimer, Bay Area Cyclist, Hit with Doping Allegation By Former Team Manager

Cyclist Levi Leipheimer must pedal out of trouble​Cycling's reputation as a sport dirtier than dirt got a shot in the arm today with allegations by a former team manager that Bay Area cyclist Levi Leipheimer was doping during the 2005 Tour de France. Hans-Michael Holczer, the former boss of the Ge ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Lawyers Up; Doper Teammate Tyler Hamilton Spills to Feds

What's in the cup, Lance? ​The criminal investigation into the U.S. Postal Service-sponsored team of cycling champion Lance Armstrong took a vast leap forward today with reports that former teammate Tyler Hamilton has agreed to speak with federal investigators. Hamilton, an Olympic gold medal ... More >>

Interpol, World Anti-Doping Agency Launch Investigations of Lance Armstrong

No, no, not that way. This way...​At this point, who isn't investigating Lance Armstrong? The World Anti-Doping Agency has joined the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Attorney's office to look into allegations that directors of Armstrong's former U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team conducted ... More >>

Wall Street Journal Planning Lance Armstrong Doping Bombshell

Might this affect Lance's concentration?​The Wall Street Journal, which for a week has been rumored to be preparing a Game of Shadows-style story detailing doping allegations against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, announced in Friday's paper that it plans to release just such ... More >>

Floyd Landis doping scandal: The S.F. connection

Hometown Papers Claim Local Hero Cyclist Levi Leipheimer Never Doped. Oh Really?

Hometown papers are ardently defending Levi Leiphimer from accusations of drug use. But those accusations may not be so far-fetched.​When disgraced 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis last week confessed to doping and fingered other cyclists, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat was quick to jump t ... More >>

Disgraced Cyclist Floyd Landis Says Lance Armstrong a Doper

Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

Scenes from Amgen Tour of California's San Francisco Start

A morning drizzle and a mid-workaday-morning roll-out-time led to scant crowds at the Ocean Beach start of Tuesday's stage of the Tour of California cycling race. Those who attended got a real taste of bicycle racing, big-time European -style, in which teams of athletes who dress (and weigh) like jo ... More >>

With S.F. Critical Mass Mojo in Tow, Tesla Motors To Open Store in Biketown USA

Tesla's next endeavor? ​Fresh off the revelation that the company's top publicist is an avid fan and participant in San Francisco's Critical Mass monthly bicycle parade, Tesla Motors announced  it will be opening an electric car store in America's top bicycling city, Boulder, Colorado.Last mo ... More >>

Kraftwerk's Anthologie makes up for lost time

Tonight in SOMA, Street-Food Carts Plan an Epic Convergence for SFBC's Bike-In Movie

rhondawinter/FlickrSexy Soup Lady at the summer's first Bike-In Movie Night.​Remember the classic Rockestra of the '70s? A couple dozen gods of rock, standing side by side on a stadium stage, simultaneously laying down hellaciously tasty chords? Well, the cart food equivalent drops tonight, wh ... More >>

Tour de France Brought to You By ... A Palo Alto Biotech Startup?

​Officially speaking, the Tour de France -- which finished Sunday in Paris -- was brought to you by sponsors Carrefour supermarkets, Skoda cars and Vittel bottled water. Behind the scenes however, the physiology-defying, mountaintop-finish action of the race through the Pyrenees and the Alps may h ... More >>

Lance Armstrong's Derriere Exposed, Now That He's Lost His Levi

Levi LeipheimerLevi Leipheimer, the petite, bald-headed San Rafael resident who until Thursday was considered a possible dark horse to win the Tour de France, dropped out Friday with a wrist fracture suffered in a crash during Wednesday's stage, according to press reports.Though Leipheimer's Astana ... More >>

Tour de Fromage Rides Again

The French are jealousGluttonously creative San Francisco's answer to the Tour de France, the Tour de Fromage is sure to be the highlight of the numerous "chain of events" hosted by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition."The ride will be moderately difficult: Around 10 to 15 miles, but at a leisurely ... More >>

Tour of California Explained: Cycling ValHella

Part III of our explainer of California's new favorite sporting event. Read Part II here, and Part I here. Q. In  your installment about Tuesday's stage victor, Norseman Thor Hushovd, you said bike racing's low-impact training meant fewer injuries and greater athleticism. So is cycling a sportsman' ... More >>

Tour of California Explained: Borat in San Francisco?

Very Nice! Now that Bay Area resident and Lance Armstrong teammate Levi Leiphiemer took Monday's lead in the Tour of California bicycle race, some Snitchophrenics have taken notice of this Big International Sporting Spectacle, and come away confused.Funny clothes, foreign sponsors, misshapen ... More >>

The Body Electric

Lindstrøm's cosmic aerobics.

Saddle Up

Shake-down Tour

Is this what you get when a rapacious American capitalist takes U.S. bike racing for a spin?

Dopey Bid

A close, unflattering look at San Francisco's prospective Olympic Games dance partner

This Is Your Sport Off Drugs

If only baseball would deal with the drug problem instead of cowering in fear

Legal Complications on Steroids

If Lance Armstrong were found to have been on drugs, and his S.F. handlers knew it, sponsors could demand their money back, and perhaps change sports in the U.S. forever

Tour de Farce

Lance Armstrong, Thom Weisel, and questions about anti-doping efforts in American cycling

Home Is Where the Corn Bread Is

Even in a new Marina location, you can go Home again

Best Bike Ride

Parks Reborn

Celebrate a shoreline renaissance

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

They're Krafty

Lovely Germans perform for you

Pedal Power

VeloSwap rides into town

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Kraftwerk

Tour de France Soundtracks

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Aloha, Yay!

Party like the islanders in S.F.

Reps Etc.

It's the Economic Development, Stupid

Our lefty supervisors need to remember: In an economic downturn, it's not smart or progressive to go around killing jobs

This Is Your Sport, on Dope

State Sen. Don Perata's bill on drug testing for pro athletes isn't nearly tough enough on doped-up athletes or their enablers

Best Bike Trail

American River Trail, Old Town Sacramento

The Best Ambassador Money Can Buy?

Republican mega-donor Howard Leach is reportedly headed to France. At least we're not sending him to an important country.

Postscript

Ride of Passage

Recycling America

As the millennium approaches, the country is engulfed in a bicycling craze that's reminiscent of our last fin de siecle. A Bay Area street kid named George Mount helped start it all. Savior on Wheels