Universal Sports coverage of the Giro

First off, i'm loving the fact that Universal Sports will be broadcasting the Giro for the next 4 years. How refreshing it is to watch the race without all the extra stuff that Versus interrupts us with. I don't need to see what Lance had for breakfast every day.

Today I was watching stage 6 online and when they went to a commercial break the audio is still live. the link is here. If you skip to 13 minutes into the coverage you hear Scott and Todd making the call to Chris Carmichael and talking about what they will be talking about. The interesting thing to me was that it confirms that they are recording their commentary after the race is over. They talk about that with Chris and tell him not to talk about the ending of the stage. I have noticed more than once that they would "profile" the eventual winner of the stage before he was even in the break of the day. I was trying to figure out if they were just lucky of if they knew already. I guess we now know.

To all you drivers who think no one is watching

Tonight i wasn't able to make the thursday night barrington ride because i got stuck at work so on the way home i decided to drive part of the route to see if i would run into the group. I got my phone out so i could snap a shot of the group if I saw them. At around 6:25pm i was driving south on Hagers Bend Rd in the opposite direction the group would be coming. Sure enough I see the group ahead. I notice a silver Honda Odyssey passing the group and after it does it starts to weave and it appears to rapidly decrease it's speed a couple of times in front of them. so as they go by i snap a pic.

so to the thin haired white male driver in the grey shirt, think before you act out. someone could have been seriously injured and you would be in a big heap of trouble. it's not worth getting all mad because you had to wait a few seconds to pass a group of fathers, husbands, and overall great guys.