Even the sports page is infected with pernicious media bias. The Washington Post dispatched reporter Molly Brown to Paris to cover the miraculous comeback of American Floyd Land in The Tour de France. Brown couldn't resist leading the second paragraph with the loaded and frankly inaccurate assertion that Landis "rejected his Pennsylvania Mennonite upbringing as a teenager to start a bicycle racing career." I raced mountain bikes in Maryland in the mid nineties and Floyd was one of the stars of circuit (I was not). Because he was winning all the time everybody knew who he was and where he was from. I can't say this from intimate first hand knowledge, but my impression was that any conflicts with his religion were more of the teenage rebellion variety. Using the word rejection implies he has renounced his faith (I don't believe he has or would). Other writers used the rebellion adjective.  In an interview with cyclingworld.com,  Landis in his usual self effacing style...(Read Full Post)