Page 2 bans quality writingIt's a wonderful country where Jim Armstrong can get paid for writing drivel like this about Lance Armstrong: Tired of wading through a half-page of riveting bicycling copy to get to your morning box scores? I hear you, bubba. Sure, it was a nice story when it started, but by now it's gotten older than Jesse Orosco's bunions: See Lance ride, see Lance win, listen to French officials whine in their wine. Let's leave the PC cops out of this, it should be the Good Sports Story cops who haul this jerk away. Lance Armstrong isn't some liberal puff piece, this isn't the Boston Globe covering women's sports once a week, it's an honest to God american classic. Where but the hallowed-halls of sport can synchronocity like this occur? What's wonderful about Lance Armstrong is that he is a compelling american athlete competing in a global sport. We neglect the fact that, although we watch 'World Series' and win 'World Championships', not only is the globe shut out from competing in these events, an over whelming amount of the world simply doesn't care. Yet, forever intertwined with Lance Armstrong is this wholley american story of success despite impossible odds, an american appreciation for the ability of will-power and determination to define one's future, an american man wrapped in the garb of the United States Post Office making the american story entirely relevant to the globe in an event that is all their own. And it really pisses off the French. |
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