Evans!

The 2011 Tour de France winner is still very much in the hunt, placing 5th in today's stage 10, a difficult climb, with 20% gradiant in the final 4km, to Altopiano del Montasio . Evans remains second in the GC (+0:40), and Nibali added to his lead over most everyone's choice to take the overall this year, Bradley…

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Today from 12-1 PM PST, Annalee Newitz will be here talking about her new book, Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction. She'll be in conversation with MIT science journalism professor Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus. And with you! Join us in a conversation about mass extinction, and whether humanity can really survive.

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Tour of California Begins

Tejay Van Garderen, Tyler Farrar, and Peter Sagan are not riding the Giro d'Italia this year. They can be found at the Amgen Tour of California. A total of eight stages beginning today in Escondido. Coverage is through NBC Sports Network (5:30pm EST today), and I'm not sure where online (more to come).

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Stage 9 Concludes a Wet Week at the Giro d'Italia

With 9 stages in the books, and 12 to come, Vincenzo Nibali remains in the maglia rosa for at least a couple more days. The first week of the giro has been a wet affair, featured several crashes, and five different riders in the maglia rosa: Mark Cavendish (1 day), Salvatore Puccio (1), Luca Paolini (4), Beñat…

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