By IlGruppo.cc Team NetApp’s Steven Cozza has been forced out of his home race, the Amgen Tour of California, due to illness. The California native was recently diagnosed with an intestinal infection and will have to skip the team’s first race outside of Europe. “That news came as a shock for Steven,” said team manager, […]
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Discrete Sport LLC has added four snowboarders to its athlete roster. Ralph Backstrom of Lake Tahoe and Matt Annetts of Jackson Hole are both big mountain snowboarding specialists with proven skills in competition and film projects. “I’m super pumped to be a part of Discrete,” Backstrom said in a press release. “I look forward to […]
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By Blair Anthony Robertson, Sacramento Bee Jim Felt’s career as a design guru and geek who owns an international bicycle manufacturing company may have begun with a run he never finished, a lunch he didn’t hold down and the best $100 he ever lost. In the mid-70s and still in his 20s, Felt was a […]
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By Richard Pestes, PezCycling News There’s almost never a bad time to see a bike race, and with the Tour of California now running in May, it’s an even better time to actually ride your bike there too. Former pros Chris Huber and Greg Oravetz will guide a select group of guests through the opening […]
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Weekend poll results from the Sacramento Bee. Where will you watch the Amgen Tour of California? • Lake Tahoe area: 8 percent • As it heads toward Sacramento: 18 percent • Auburn: 6 percent • TV coverage on VS: 14 percent • Not interested: 54 percent Total votes: 181 – Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee
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North Tahoe Public Utility District has expanded hours at the North Tahoe Regional Park from 7am-7:30pm. Beginning June 1, the park hours will close at 9pm. To maintain the park, stay off turf areas until they have dried. Construction will start again at the new playground in the park once the area has dried out […]
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Updated: May 8 at 9:24am: It’s sunny now in South Lake Tahoe. For those who have forgotten what falling snow looks like can just look outside their windows in South Lake Tahoe. A deep area of low pressure is sitting over the Lake Tahoe Basin. It will be here through Monday. The National Weather Service […]
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As a part of the 10-day countdown to Amgen, Barton Health physical therapist, certified strength and conditioning specialist and professional bike fitter Jason Collin will join Lake Tahoe Community College’s certified strength and conditioning specialist Walter Morris to present Pedaling to Peak Performance. The event is May 12 from 6-8pm at Embassy Suites. Collin will […]
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By Susan Voyles, Reno Gazette-Journal Stone Mother, a well-known tufa rock formation at Pyramid Lake, created the lake with her tears, according to ancient Paiute legends. Now she’s weeping again. Graffiti vandals have left their marks in spray paint on nearby tufa rocks. Broken glass from past drinking parties sparkles in the sunlight. Sick of […]
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Wildfires, destructive insects and disease destroy millions of acres of U.S. national forests each year, but there’s a way consumers can help. Bayer Advanced, one of the leading consumer lawn and garden brands in the United States, is working with the Arbor Day Foundation for the sixth consecutive year to help restore our national forests […]
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