Here’s a huge set of basketball pictures.

Check out this interesting article by Radley Balko of CATO about the government and being fat.

Here’s the United States according to some guy’s racist aunt. It’s pretty amusing.

This is an interesting idea, but it’s too bad that it is cost prohibitive.

Carl Pope, the executive director of the Sierra Club, and Bj

SI has some great photo galleries of Lance Armstrong’s career and life.

Lance’s Legacy

Portraits of Lance

Lance’s Early Years

Wired has an interesting article about the amount of power necessary to ride the Tour de France.

If you have more time, check out the what Allen Lim, Floyd Landis’ trainer, wrote about Floyd’s power output in the Tour.

I complain a lot about Muslims not standing up against violence and terror. So when I see stories about Muslisms standing up against terror, I have to post it. Here’s a story about a recent rally for peace.

This war on drugs is ridiculous and wrong. Time magazine writes:

It’s a messy situation. No one is denying that federal and state officials, under pressure to combat a spike in pain-killer abuse, are waging an escalating war on drugs that is spilling into the waiting rooms of neighborhood doctors. Over the past six years, more than 5,600 physicians from Alaska to West Virginia have been investigated on suspicion of “drug diversion.” Some doctors allegedly prescribed narcotics too freely, while others issued them to patients who turned out to be dealers or addicts. More than 450 doctors have been prosecuted on charges ranging from illegal prescribing and drug trafficking to manslaughter and murder.

But in the government’s new crackdown, legitimate physicians and patients may be getting caught in the net. “Fifty million Americans are in severe pain from arthritis, back injuries, cancer and other disabilities,” says Dr. Scott Fishman, president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. “But the government is sending a message to avoid prescribing strong pain-killers.”

Ultimately, it may be the patients who get hurt most, because a growing number of doctors, frightened of government scrutiny, are avoiding the use of powerful narcotics such as OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet and Dilaudid. “It is impossible to be sure that a patient is not diverting any of his medication,” says Dr. Thomas Stinson, a Medford, Mass., anesthesiologist who is closing his 20-year practice to new pain patients. “I fear I might be targeted.”

I was bummed to read this post on SI.com about the Tour de France. Bill Syken in this post writes:

Lance Armstrong has the lead again in the Tour de France. Or so I’ve read. I haven’t actually seen the race. Or a clip that meant anything to me. All I’ve seen is a shot of Lance in that yellow jersey. Just like last year, and all the years before.

He goes on compare Armstrong to Michael Jordand and list the top ten Jordan moments, but he can’t list a top ten of things Armstrong has done. In fact, we can’t list any.

The problem is that Syken isn’t a cycling fan. He hasn’t watched this year’s Tour, which admittedly hasn’t had that one defining Armstrong moment, but it has had some moments, such as when Armstrong passed his main rival, Jan Ullrich on the prologue, even though Armstrong started one minute later. There was Armstrong’s dominance in Stage 9 after his team couldn’t keep up and he was isolated with three riders from T-Mobile. There was stage 10 where Armstrong showed he was still the best as he blew away his rivals and finished with Alejandro Valverde (Valverde bowed out of the race two days later), and there was Armstrong