Mood:  down

After 21 stages, the 2009 Tour de France is over.  For me, the end of the World's Greatest Sporting Event means a return to the video wasteland that most American's consider "televised sports" - baseball, basketball, football, NASCARball.  Come to think of it, there isn't a NASCARball - just NASCAR.  Boring, boring, boring . . .

Analysis of the outcome of the 2009 Tour de France from the "Badger" himself, the great Bernard Hinault:

The good news - the Tour of Ireland is coming up next month and Versus is covering it!