Chris Fontecchio

Time for some pretty jerseys to get handed out. For a comprehensive scoreboard, look no further than SuperTed's FSA DS Men's Big Board, and the Women's Big Board, where you can see what's come in...

Today I give you a new term, the F-Bomb. No, not the one you used when you heard that the Sporting Chicken rolled out Pedro Delgado ("My start time is when?!") to rep the 100th maillot jaune. No,...

[What percentage of French people are mimes? A simple majority? NTTAWWT.] The Tour de France is what it is for one simple reason: France will always be the epicenter of cycling. Maybe the French...

I grew up not so much watching old movies but making vague mental notes of them so that when I was old enough to consider the possibility that they were awesome, I would know where to start. And...

We at the Cafe like to joke with each other about our respective national identities a lot. It seems like a kind of universal guilty pleasure, one I personally honed to an annoying pitch during my...

In the end the 2013 Giro d'Italia went out not with a bang, but a whimper. Then a bang. Or really, it was more of a bang-bang-bang-whimper-whimper-bang-Megwhimper-BANG! Because grand tours are like...

As feared, snow has caused the Giro d'Italia to remove the two major mountain climbs prior to the finish at Val Montello from what would have been an epic Stage 19 of the Giro. Stage 20 is also at...

Do we know who's going to win the 2013 Giro d'Italia? Not exactly. Yes, some people have already chosen a wine pairing for the presumed winner, but with snow falling and the word giro being...

Giovanni Visconti won his second stage in less than a week by jumping away on the day's only categorized climb with 20km to go. Behind, Cadel Evans narrowed the gap to Mark Cavendish in the points classification.