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AIRmail 9-25-23: Final Thoughts on the Vuelta; How to Create a Winning Environment; Cycling Mega-“Merger” – Good or Bad? The Crit Situation; New Joint Agreement for the Riders; Challenges in Women’s Cycling

AIRmail 9-18-23: Jumbo-Visma Manages to Overcome “Adversity;” Did the Media Influence Vuelta Outcome? What is Really Happening at NCL? New Life for the UCI Points Ranking?

AIRmail 9-11-23: Jumbo-Visma Sets a High Bar; But How Will the Team Race in Week 3? Cable TV and the Impact on Sports; AVV’s Legacy; Gravel and Alternative Racing; The Future for Women’s Sports

AIRmail 9-5-23: Kuss is First American to Lead a Grand Tour in Ten Years; Poor Organization Continues at Vuelta; Lotto-Dstny Drama; Shortfalls in TV Coverage; Recent Doping Cases

AIRmail 8-28-23: Disastrous Start to Vuelta; Rwanda Worlds in Question? How Much Difference Did “Unchained” Make? Maryland Classic Set for Second Running; Younger and Younger Riders

AIRmail 8-21-23: Crowded Race Calendar; Freeman Case Finally Wraps – With Lessons for the Future; Confusing Team Developments; SBT Gravel; Will Apple Buy ESPN, and What Could It Mean for Cycling?

AIRmail 8-14-23: Worlds Wrap Up, With Economics Uncertain; Sportswashing Hits the Mainstream Media; Do More Dollars Create More Competitive Success? Sports Content Increasingly Driving Media Survival Strategies

AIRmail 8-7-23: Scottish Festival of Cycling Marred By Protest; Bronny James Event a Warning? Lappartient Threatens Britain; NCL Developments; Women’s Cycling Shouldn’t Be Modeled After Men’s

AIRmail 7-31-23: Vollering and SDWorx Dominate TdFF; Evenepoel Grabs Third San Sebastian, Initial Tour TV Reports; Delayed Punishments; In the Broadcast Booth; The Joy of RAGBRAI

AIRmail 7-24-23: Men Finish, as the Women Start; Is Vingegaard Being Unfairly Questioned? New Films; New Agent Group Forms; Is Remco Moving, or What?

AIRmail 7-17-23: Dead Heat in the Tour; Tough Times in Sports Media; Ideas from the NBA and MLB; UCI Reverses Transgender Policy, Troubles at Israel-Premier Tech

AIRmail 7-10-23: As Tour Comes into Focus in France, AVV Takes Another Giro Donne in Italy; Controversy in the AIGCP; Saudi Money Keeps on Flowing, Basketball’s New CBA, and Netflix Season 2

AIRmail 7-3-23: As Baseball and Golf Reinvent Themselves, Why Not Cycling? Tour Kicks Off With a Different Feel; Lappartient’s New Job; The Safety of Women’s Racing …

AIRmail 6-27-23: National Championships; Developments in Sports TV Rights; Sponsorship Woes; Froome Misses Tour; Flanders and Tour de Suisse Combine

AIRmail 6-20-23: “Unchained” Spawns a New Cottage Industry; Tour Preparation Races Wind Down; UCI Points Change Impact? Lessons from Global Basketball and Women’s Soccer …

AIRmail 6-13-23: Big News From the Worlds of Golf and Soccer; Where Will Saudi Arabia Invest Next? TdF Hints From the Dauphiné; Safety and Women’s Racing

AIRmail 6-6-23: Unbound Still Evolving; Does Lappartient Really Need Another Job? Confusion in Transgender Guidelines; Joe Martin Race Illustrates Challenges; Bentonville is “Bike City” …

AIRmail 5-31-23: Roglič Expunges His Demons; Cavendish Is Still Here; Impact of the New UCI Points System; SDWorx’ Incredible Season; New UCI Equipment Rules …

AIRmail 5-23-23: Boring Racing to Continue; Why All the Calls to Cancel the Giro? Juvenile Twitter Battles Overshadow the Race, Mo Wilson Trial Delayed; Cycling Media Shuffles …

AIRmail 5-16-23: Giro Gets Crazy; How Many Riders Have COVID? UCI Outburst Over Helicopters; Sports Salaries; Sustainability Update

AIRmail 5-9-23: Giro Controversies Start Early On; An Exciting Vuelta Femenina; Women’s Sports and TV Rights; Safety in Gravel Racing; UCI to Allow Russian Athletes

AIRmail 5-2-23: Young Riders Shine at Romandie; Unchained Docudrama Drops Promo; U.S. Racing Gets Another Crit Series; Triathlon’s Doping Wake-up Call

AIRmail 4-25-23: Evenepoel Dominant at Liege; Sea Otter Shows Growth; Changing Landscape of Sponsorship; Saudi Sports Investments Spur Change

AIRmail 4-18-23: Pogačar Wins Again; “Big Six” Dominance Leading to Renewed Calls for Salary Cap; U.S. Racing Underway; Scarcity Value in Sports

AIRmail 4-11-23: Big 6 Continues to Dominate; Is Women’s Cycling More Exciting Than Men’s? Challenges of Cycling TV; “Category Doping” at Paralympics; Transgender Sports Controversy Continues

AIRmail 4-4-23: The End of Specialization? Is Sports Media By-Passing Cycling? A Major Bankruptcy; NCL Kicks Off; A Push to Promote E-Bikes

AIRmail 3-27-23: The “Golden Age” – Good or Bad? Controversy Around Gifting Races; WBC Highlights the Power of Sport; Hansen Elected CPA Prez; Change, Risk and Opportunity in Sport

AIRmail 3-20-23: A Long MSR Reveals Top 2023 Riders; Faulkner Controversy; FIFA’s Sponsorship Gaffe; Cycling to Cure Depression? Anrooij Takes Trofeo Alfredo Binda

AIRmail 3-13-23: Competing WT Stage Races; Collaboration on the Horizon Between ASO and RCS? Netflix Sports; Lessons From Women’s Tennis; Conflicts of Interest in Sport; Lefevere Mouths Off Yet Again …

AIRmail 3-6-23: Sport and Surveillance Technology; New TTT Format; Olympic Corruption Stories Continue; Continuing Cycling Media Carnage; UCI V.P. Cleared of Doping Charges; UHC Continues Sponsorship of Maryland Race

AIRmail 2-28-23: The Classics Get Underway; Tracking Sports Media Content; LIV Updates; NILs and Cycling; Caffeine and Cycling; Money Continues to Pour Into Sports

AIRmail 2-21-23: An Exciting Way to Decide Dead Heats; Remembering Major Taylor; The Volatile Value of Sports Rights; Can Sports Fans Save America?

AIRmail 2-14-23: Middle East Racing; Improved Concussion Protocols; Is Ticket Revenue That Important? The Russia Question; The B&B Hotels Collapse

AIRmail 2-6-23: Titans Face Off at CX Worlds; Tough Times for Media; Safety in the News Again; Transgender Sport Controversy Continues; Who is the Trendiest Sports Federation?

AIRmail 1-30-23: Early season racing spans the globe; new bellwethers for women’s cycling; new approaches for talent identification; continuing controversy around Russia in sports

AIRmail 1-23-23: WorldTour Racing Back in Business; New Red Bull Talent Program; Saudi Arabia Continues Buying Spree; Future Trends in Sports and Technology

AIRmail 1-17-23: Sports Media Values Soar; A New President for the CPA; New Approaches for Women’s Sport; More Saudi Sport Buys; On-Going Cavendish Soap Opera

AIRmail 1-9-23: Van Aert’s Domination Continues; Legacy of the Qatar World Cup; Quintana, Lopez Out of WT; Colbrelli Switches Jobs; Triathlon Group Raises Money; NCL Announces 2023 Teams

AIRmail 1-2-23 Sports a Centralizing Force in ’22; The Potential of Women’s Cycling; UCI Finally Makes Some Changes; Exciting Cyclocross Season a Boon

AIRmail 12-19-22 The Power and Joy of Sports, Team Jumbo-Visma – A Model for the Sport

AIRmail 12-12-22 The State of Sports Sponsorship

AIRmail 12-5-22 Sponsorship Migrates Toward Geopolitical – Rather Than Commercial – Goals & Selective Outrage Around Qatar World Cup Quickly Fades

AIRmail 11-28-22 The Crypto Collapse: Impact on Sport, Cycling as Financially Stable as Ever?

AIRmail 11-21-22 A Busy “Off-Season” – with Cyclocross and Track Racing

AIRmail 11-14-22 Companies Doing Good in Sport

AIRmail 11-7-22-Cheating in Sports? Greenwashing – Good or Bad? What’s Up with the B&B Hotels Team?

AIRmail 10-31-22 A Climb-Heavy Tour 2023 Course, Continuing Evidence of the Boom in Women’s Sports & Sportswashing as “Soft” Political Power

AIRmail 10-24-22 A Bad Week for Anti-Doping; World Cup Looms, Sportswashing Booms

AIRmail 10-17-22 Women’s Rider of the Year No Surprise; Season Ends with a Whimper, TRU Ups the Ante, and Big Transfer Questions Remain

AIRmail 10-10-22   Who Was 2022’s Best Rider? Gravel Worlds, More UCI Missteps

AIRmail 10-3-22 Same Old, Same Old as Season Winds to an End

AIRmail 9-26-22 Worlds Wrap Up, While UCI Stubs Its Toe

AIRmail 9-19-22 The Moriah Wilson Saga; Cycling’s Situation vis-a-vis Tennis, Golf

AIRmail 9-12-22 Strange Developments Across Cycling

AIRmail 9-5-22 Vuelta Still Up in the Air, A Continuing Morass of Problems with the Points System

AIRmail 8-29-22 Youth Takes Over at Vuelta, On-Going Problems With Relegation/Promotion System

AIRmail 8-22-22 New Events Popping Up Everywhere, Who’s the Best Rider For the Buck?

AIRmail 8-15-22 How to Improve the UCI Points System, Scandinavian Racing, LIV-PGA Battle Continues

AIRmail 8-8-22 The TdFF – After the Honeymoon; Transfers, and the Relegation Battle

AIRmail 8-1-22 A Turning Point for Women’s Cycling, TeamTrak Racing to Start Next Year

AIRmail 7-25-22 The Men Finish and the Women Start, Questionable Results from the UCI, the Example of Golf

AIRmail 7-18-22 Hot and Furious Action at the Tour, and a Fizzled Raid?

AIRmail 7-11-22 Interesting Tour Tactics, the Giro Donne, and On-Going Changes in the Cycling Media

AIRmail 7-4-22   New Information about ASO … and What Does the UCI Have Up Its Sleeve?

AIRmail 6-30-22 Cycling’s Financial Scale vis-a-vis Ongoing Investments in Sport

AIRmail 6-20-22 Dollars are Flooding into Sports – Why Isn’t Cycling Getting Any of Them?

AIRmail 6-6-22 Debate Around Russian Athletes Boils Over

AIRmail 5-30-22 As a Dull Giro Wraps Up, Bikes Hit the Mainstream Media

AIRmail 5-23-22 Girmay Opens the Door for African Cyclists