Thickening smoke

With the Giro d'Italia about to begin, the Chicago Tribune's Philip Hersh wrote this great post about Lance Armstrong. Maybe there's not much separating Lance from Barry Bonds.

Guilt by association? True of almost everyone in cycling’s elite, perhaps a little more for Armstrong, who maintains he never took banned performance-enhancing drugs yet utterly dominated the Tour de France when it was full of dopers.

Still searching for more info on the latest ancient find in Illinois. Chicago papers seem to be ignoring these stories so far.