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Staples Center ready for long Sunday
ESPN
With the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Kings all hosting two home playoff games between Thursday and Sunday and the final stage of the Amgen Tour of California set to finish in front of the building Sunday morning, ...

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HERB BENHAM: A glorious day for a glorious sport--unless you're riding
Bakersfield Californian
Yesterday, we attended the 5th stage of the Amgen Tour of California, an 18.7 mile-long time trial, that started and finished at BC. I have no idea who won. I was too busy eating the sloppy joe's from Moo Creamery, deep pit chicken from Prime Cut, ...

Game 4 of the Spurs/Clippers Series Could Be Delayed on Sunday
SLAM Online
The OC Register reports: “A combination of six playoff basketball and hockey games will be played over four days, capped by the finish of the Amgen Tour of California bicycle race, which will end at the intersection of Figueroa Street and Chick Hearn ...

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Playoff Trifecta Means Staples Windfall Curbed by L.A. Traffic
San Francisco Chronicle
The eight-day, 750-mile Amgen Tour of California bicycling race also will finish outside the arena on May 20. For the weekend at least, the confluence of events has turned the teams' shared home into the hub of a $5 billion-a- year sports economy in ...

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Carson Daly Talks About Cancer and Recovery
EmpowHer
Between his radio show, “Mornings with Carson Daly” on Los Angeles' 97.1 AMP Radio and a fight out of LAX, we talked to Carson about Breakaway from Cancer, a patient and caregiver online resource network and the Amgen Tour of California.

SHOOT Online
SALT Cuts Unique SPY+ Optic Eyewear "Tour of California" Commercial
SHOOT Online
Culver City, CA, May 18, 2012 | SHOOT Publicity Wire | --- SALT Creative Director/Editor Ian Douglass worked with SPY+Optic and Director Jason Baffa to cut "Tour of California." The spot, which features Spy athlete and 2011 US National Road Race ...

2012 Tour of California, Stage 6: Big Bear Lake Awaits At The End
SB Nation
One day after the individual time trial in Bakersfield, the 2012 Tour of California offers a grueling challenge from Palmdale to Big Bear Lake for Stage 6. The course itself is just 115.7 miles long, but the cyclists will face four climbs and plenty of ...

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TV SportsWatch
Washington Post
... NC FSN — Kansas St. at Texas Tech ESPN — NCAA Division I playoffs, regionals, TBA ESPN — NCAA Division I playoffs, regionals, TBA ESPN — NCAA Division I playoffs, regionals, TBA NBCSN — Tour of California, stage 7, Ontario to Mount Baldy, Calif.

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This weekend on TV, radio
Boston.com
... WHJJ (920) PRO BASKETBALL 3:30 pm - San Antonio at LA Clippers, Ch. 5 4 pm - WNBA: Connecticut at New York, NBA 10:30 pm - Oklahoma City at LA Lakers, TNT CYCLING 7 pm - Tour of California, NBCSN GOLF 7 am - European: Volvo World Match Play, ...

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SB Nation Bay Area
2012 Tour of California, Stage 6: Preview Of Stage 6, Television Information ...
SB Nation Bay Area
Stage six of the 2012 Amgen Tour of California is 115 miles from Palmdale to Big Bear Lake, but the story isn't so much the distance as it is the height. Just about at the middle of the stage is a 12 mile, 7000 foot climb to the summit of Angeles Crest ...

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The DZ Train Powers to Time Trial Victory and Overall Lead as Sagan Succumbs
Roadcycling.com
Zabriskie is hopeful his result here at the 2012 Amgen Tour of California will bode well for his Olympic ambitions to represent the United States at the 2012 Olympic Games in London later this year. "I rode the course. I videotaped it on the iPad and ...

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VeloNation
Voigt turns back the clock to take second in Tour of California TT
VeloNation
Because of that, seeing the 40 year old German post the provisional fastest time in yesterday's Amgen Tour of California Bakersfield TT was a big surprise. And while the RadioShack Nissan rider was subsequently bumped down a spot by Dave Zabriskie ...

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Gesink pleased with fourth in Tour of California time trial
Cyclingnews.com
Robert Gesink of Rabobank is better known as a climber than a time trial specialist, so finishing fourth in the Amgen Tour of California left him feeling “exuberant”. The Dutch rider is now third overall, 39 seconds behind race leader David Zabriskie ...

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Don't touch that dial… here's the sport on TV this weekend
thejournal.ie
Cycling: Giro d'Italia (Eurosport, 1.45pm), Tour of California (Eurosport, 9.45am). Golf: The World Match Play Championship (Sky Sports, 9am, 2pm). Byron Nelson Championship (Sky Sports, 8pm). Motorcycling: MotoGP, French Grand Prix practice, ...

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Zabriskie wins individual time trial, takes lead
Yahoo! Sports
(AP) Dave Zabriskie won the individual time trial in hot and breezy conditions Thursday to take the Tour of California overall lead in with three stages left. Zabriskie, the 33-year-old Garmin-Barracuda rider from Salt Lake City, finished the 18.4-mile ...

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American Dave Zabriskie takes Tour of California lead
Yahoo! Sports
By Greg Stutchbury | Reuters – 8 hours ago BAKERSFIELD, California (Reuters) - American David Zabriskie grabbed the Tour of California lead on Thursday with a dominant victory in the stage five individual time trial. Zabriskie, 33, who has won stages ...

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Kristin Armstrong wins the Women's Time Trial at the Amgen Tour of California 2012
bettor.com (blog)
Kristin Armstrong of Team Exergy Twenty 12 wins the women's time trial event of the Amgen Tour of California 2012. The 38-year-old has helped the team with yet another victory at the current season. Armstrong has recently won two world championships, ...

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VeloNation
Kristin Armstrong wins Amgen Tour of California Women's Time Trial
VeloNation
by Ben Atkins at 5:06 AM EST Kristin Armstrong (Exergy-TWENTY12) scorched to victory in the second edition of the Amgen Tour of California Women's Time Trial, on the same 29.7km Bakersfield course that would be used by the men.

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2012 Amgen Tour of California: Stage 5 Results
Bike World News
Captain America takes a decisive win in the TT and mves into yellow. Sagan drops to 31st. It was a day for the specialists in Bakersfield, CA. While seeming like straightforward course, many riders suggested the heat and desert like scenery proved to ...

Tour of California: Zabriskie takes over lead
Santa Cruz Sentinel
AP Peter Saga, who won the previous four stages, races in the time trial of the Tour of California near Bakersfield on Thursday. Robert Torre/contributed BAKERSFIELD -- Dave Zabriskie won the individual time trial in hot and breezy conditions Thursday ...

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