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Milan San Remo is Saturday which usually happens around the Feast day of St. Joseph. It’s a big holiday in Italy as my mom reminds me by frying up some nacatoli for the occasion. We have to all wish my brother Joe a happy San Giuseppe while he basks in the glory. Podium cafe posted (…)

Milan San Remo was returned to the domain of the field sprint Saturday as Oscar Friere ripped the field of top sprinters to take a convincing second overall victory. There was no photo finish and now bike throw to beat a guy who thought he won (Zabel). This time the victory was pretty clear. Friere (…)

(Alessandro Petacchi of Fassa Bortolo wins in 2005) Scroll to the end for the full start list for Milan-San Remo from tuttobiciweb.com Filippo Pozzato gets the number one for being defending champ. Danilo DiLuca will not be lining up at the start due to the flu. Liquigas have a strong lineup featureing Enrico Gasparotto and (…)

Quick Step played their cards perfectly in an exciting finish to Milano San Remo. I wanted to actually see the finish before commenting on it. So far, I have watched the OLN coverage which was not bad. Next I will be watching taped coverage of the from RAI Sport. The finish was as described in (…)

The feast of San Giuseppe is traditional day that San Remo used to be raced on. That day to Americans is known as the day after St. Patrick’s Day. Usually San Remo was raced on the Saturday around St. Giuseppe. This year, San Remo is raced on that day, which would probably mean an Italian (…)

(pic from qsicycling.com) Usually it is the Southern Italians who have the hard heads. The Northern Italians are a little more reserved and precise. Paolo Bettini is from California which is considered Northern Italy, but he is digging out some Southern influences by showing how hard of a head he has by training for Milan (…)

Yesterday’s Giro di Lucca produced another Ale-Jet victory. This is no surprise as Petacchi has shown great form this year and is on an early hot streak. The difference yesterday was that Erik Zabel was racing with Petacchi and acted as leadout man for the Italian. This is a newer development for the German-Italian team (…)

Ivan Basso is planning his 2006 season and it looks very ambitious. In addition to going for “The Double” he will be present at the first Classic of the season Milan-SanRemo March 18th. Ciclismo: Basso alla Milano-Sanremo – Yahoo! Sport IT