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Oy. Can we agree it’s winter and just get on with it? Let me just get the ball rolling.
#1: The B field is awesome!
#2: It’s DIY As the Toto Turns, in honor of the Tour presentation. Make your own caption below. Best caption gets a Bawm Chicka Bow Wow shirt.
And let’s play nice, ok?
now that i think about it…maybe all that hall is just pent up desire given the recent armstrong/mcconaughey rumors…that’s it, lemond loves armstrong…it’s so clear now
the story:
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — Tim Blixseth, a rags-to-riches timber
baron, likes the good things in life, and he likes having them to
himself. He lives on a private 18-hole golf course near Palm
Springs, California. He also controls a ski resort in Montana
called the Yellowstone Club that he shares with a hand-picked
group including Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates.
The mountain has 13 lifts. Trail names include Learjet Glades
and Ebitda, which is Wall Street shorthand for earnings before
interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Members can play golf and fish in the Gallatin, a river
featured in the Robert Redford film “A River Runs Through It.”
Security is run by Bruce Bales, a U.S. Secret Service veteran.
Bales’s new title: director of privacy.
Now, a feud has broken out up on Blixseth’s mountain.
Yellowstone Club member Greg LeMond, the first American to win the
Tour de France, says Blixseth, 56, has cheated him out of millions
of dollars. LeMond, 45, an early investor in two limited liability
companies that control the Yellowstone Club, sued Blixseth Group
Inc., Blixseth’s company, for breach of contract in May.
LeMond alleges Blixseth sought to buy out LeMond, LeMond’s
in-laws and another investor at a below-market rate and then
pocketed $209 million of a $375 million loan to the club from
Credit Suisse Group as a cash payment. LeMond and the other
plaintiffs say they got none of that payment, which was owed to
them as investors.
“He tried to buy us out on the cheap,” LeMond says. He
filed his complaint on May 31 in Montana’s Fifth Judicial District
Court in Virginia City.
Usurped
Blixseth says LeMond is trying to profit from Blixseth’s hard
work. “He’s an aging athlete whose income-producing ability has
been usurped by Lance Armstrong,” Blixseth says in a telephone
interview from his house in Rancho Mirage, California. “He’s
probably never made an investment this good in his life.”
Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times.
In an answer to LeMond’s complaint, Blixseth denies he took a
dividend from the Credit Suisse money. He countersued LeMond for
breach of contract and for trying to use the court for wrongful
financial gain.
"This is being the most awkward threesome the Jan has ever been in"
"No, I will not let you in, not by the skin on my chinny chin chin!"
"Hmm, what’s the deal with this Empire Cycling Team we’ve been hearing so much about…"
Maybe Ivan’s and Jan’s agents should be in touch!
"So, what are you going to do with your retirement?"
"So who’s up for Sticky Biscuit?"
does the resort includes a shooting range? lemond ought to be careful if he gets invited to a shooting fete. i hear both his brother in-law and dick cheney are investors as well.
Looks Young Jan of ’97.
"Withdrawing from the Tour de france is still better than winning an A race…"
Basso
"I no make a poopy smell! Dat’s a meatball TOO spicy for Ivan Basso!"
LeBlanc
"Zees smell is like a sheet of many bebes wis zee green caca. Sacre bleu!"
Jan
"Mein scheiss ist nicht so schwer! Armstrongs scheiss ist immer die schwerster!"
can we talk about this?? DAMN 3 boys pro in 1 year, that’s pretty amazing. great job sakonnet! Can’t wait to see you do it again next year! Who’s gonna replace those 3 though…?
Those dudes were fun to watch race @ Christiana this year. I wonder how they’ll fill the void. Basil seems to have the good eye for talent – somehow I dont think replacement will be a problem.
Basso and LeBlanc react to the realization that Ullrich is wearing a wig to go with his new earring.
…and pumps.
Jan adamantly refuses to participate in the skin-stretching exercises that have become popular in Europe.
Ivan demonstrates the "self kiss" for those low-budget races without podium girls. Jan is visibly unimpressed, but LeBlanc ponders the possibilities.
JMLeBlanc: "All right you bad boys, here’s the deal: you both join French teams and you can ride my race again"
Without you two, there still maybe hope that a Frenchman can podium!!!