The Daily Beast is one of the most innovative websites around. It has a tremendous high quality (and controversial) list of authors, it has a tremendous PR machine going for it, and it often succeeds in convincing the rich and famous to write a guest article for them. A prime example: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice followed Tiger Woods around and wrote a report about her golf-adventures for TDB:

Long before I picked up a golf club four years ago, I watched the Masters every year. In 1968, I was watching with my mother when Robert De Vicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard and was disqualified. Mother was outraged because she thought that the mistake might have been a result of the language barrier. So when I was able to get tickets for my first Masters, I was really excited.| MORE ›

The head of the International Cycling Union lashed out at the French anti-doping agency on Friday that went after Lance Armstrong recently, accusing him of not cooperating and not treating the agency’s drug tester with respect.

“The fact (is) the test was done and was a matter of fact reported by Lance Armstrong himself on Twitter,” UCI president Pat McQuaid told the BBC.| MORE ›

Everybody blessed with a decent amount of common sense knew this already, but it’s seemingly important to point it out once again nonetheless: exercise is the best medicine.

Only one medicine is so powerful it can improve overall health and help reduce the risk of dozens of conditions from diabetes to hypertension: Exercise.| MORE ›

This is very surprising:

Lance Armstrong’s team manager is confident a broken collarbone won’t prevent the cycling great from riding in the Giro d’Italia or Tour de France.”I don’t think this changes anything for the Tour de France,” Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel said Tuesday.| MORE ›

Johan Bruyneel, teamleader of Astana, the team of Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, wrote a column for Dutch newspaper the Telegraaf in which he argues that cycling needs Armstrong.| MORE ›

Lance Armstrong, the man who won the Tour de France a record breaking seven times in a row, said his fall in a race in Spain earlier this week would not hinder his ability to compete in the Giro d’Italia.| MORE ›

This is an update to an article published here at PoliGazette earlier today.

As I wrote in that post, Lance Armstrong fell hard during the first stage of a five-day race in Spain called the Vuelta of Castilla and Leon race. After he fell, Armstrong sat on the ground holding his arm to his chest, apparently in pain. A video of the crash can be seen here.| MORE ›