David Lectka

My family wearing Butler basketball shirts in front of the DePaul basketball arena

My daughter wearing a sweater with a dog wearing a sweater with a dog on it

Little one’s first college basketball game! She very much enjoyed the part where we all wore shirts with dogs on them

No Watch Grid today. More important business to attend to

In the meantime we get a nice preview of the Tour de France white jersey battle between del Toro and Seixas

Well we got about 15 minutes of televised competitive cycling before Pogačar decided the race was over

Tadej Pogačar covered in scrapes and grass stains trying to get back on his bike after a crash

Tadej Pogačar with visible injuries crossing the finish line with his arm in the air

With over 11,000 feet of climbing and some extremely steep gradients, this is Tadej Pogačar's race to lose. He's got 3 career wins in this race and should add another tomorrow. Last year he crashed with 48 miles to go and still ended up winning by over a minute.

A peloton of cyclists riding on a white gravel road through a vineyard

Tadej Pogačar arriving at the finish line, cheered on by a giant crowd in Piazza del Campo

One of the prettiest races in all of cycling, we get lovely Tuscan vineyards followed by an awesome finishing scene at the Piazza del Campo in Siena.

Elevation profile of Strade Bianche

Map of Strade Bianche race course

The next cycling classic: Strade Bianche! 126 miles across the white gravel roads of Tuscany. 8am on HBO Max!

Watch Grid: If you like river valleys, today is your day

This data must be incredibly old to claim Brian Eno has more sales than Ed Sheeran

Which I guess makes them the first team ever to go 10-0?

LJ Cason must have a great agent because every announcer we get repeats the exact same “he’d start for any other team in the country” line, which as good as he is is simply not true

I’m glad you found the stat because I literally couldn’t invent a metric they were best at

Watch Grid: slightly underwhelming schedule as a lot of the smallest conferences get through their earlier rounds.

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Women's hairstylist

Not sure I'm winning the "rugged" vote

Watch Grid: For a lot of people, conference tournament season really begins when you can watch weekday afternoon games at an empty gym in a random city. Well I have good news for those people.

Profile of Trofeo Laigueglia

Map of Trofeo Laigueglia

This week the peloton heads to Italy for Trofeo Laigueglia, where they get a chance to test out some of the roads used for the much bigger Milano-Sanremo race later this month

Watch Grid: Remember, in March we make room for 2 games at once in the "Watch This" column. Gotta practice your dual-screening skills before the tournament

Watch Grid: March is here! And conference tournament play begins with the most confusingly formatted tournament I've ever seen: the Horizon League!

With the small hills concentrated early in the race, this is considered a “sprinters classic,” meaning the bigger flat ground specialists like Jonathan Milan, Jasper Philipsen, and Matthew Brennan should all battle it out down the final stretch

The other big race for opening weekend is Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, a confusingly named race, as it never actually makes it all the way to Brussels.

I’m in the car and taking screenshots on my phone so here is an extremely zoomed out Watch Grid

Looks like we’re gearing up for another spring of heavyweight fights between Pogačar and van der Poel

Illinois had its 2nd-worst offensive game of the season and yet it was the 5th-best performance by a team facing Michigan this season.

Illinois basketball arena

Alright friends, let’s do this

All that being said, the beer is going to be what does me in. Considering how I've felt after like, 6 beers in a day, I can't imagine what 24 would do to me

Once again I must make my annual pitch to the @sickoscommittee.org to start a cycling cyckos subcommittee

This year, cycling's Classics King Mathieu van der Poel takes on this race for the first time in his career. Usually he starts his season later as he recovers from cyclocross season. But he'll arrive as the favorite to add this race to his resume

A notoriously difficult race to predict--with 2 short, steep cobblestone hills around 8 miles from the finish--it's all about making a well-timed attack and then holding off the charging pack behind you.

Now that the Olympics are over, we turn our sports attention to...
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that's right! The cycling Spring Classics! The campaign opens as always with the Omloop Het Niewsblad, a 128 mile trek around East Flanders

My deranged thought while pondering this: "I don't think the tacos and beer are possible WITHOUT running 10 miles first"