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Reel Passion

Competitive fly-casting is a lifetime fling.

By Eric Dexheimer
Jul 7, 2005

As rain spits from a low gray sky one evening, Mike Bostwick, perhaps the best fly-caster in all of Colorado, stands by himself in Aurora's Utah Park. An observer can tell it's Mike Bostwick (he looks a little like Stalin, but much friendlier) because of his rugged-sportsman-looking shirt, on which...
Loopers in the Loop

Boosters try to bring caddying back to the fore.

By Eric Dexheimer
Jun 9, 2005

Chunk Foster graduated more than a decade ago from the University of Wyoming with a degree in communications, and when a friend jokingly recommended that they head to Florida to caddy for a season, he signed on without a second thought. It was just the sort of half-work, half-goof gig...
Flexing His Muscle

The Air Force Academy discovered that prosecuting accused steroid-abusers is as tricky as attorney Rick Collins says.

By Eric Dexheimer
May 26, 2005

In Legal Muscle, his self-published book about steroids and the law, attorney Rick Collins points out that one sign of law enforcement's ignorance of steroids can be found in the text of the Anabolic Steroid Control Act, which misspells several anabolic compounds in places and lists others twice under different...
A Bulky Blue Line

Some police find the lure of strength-enhancing drugs impossible to ignore.

By Eric Dexheimer
May 26, 2005

You'd have to have been blind and deaf over the past year to miss what is clearly an epidemic of anabolic steroid use among a certain elite segment of this country's population. Steroids make their users faster, stronger and bigger -- all clear advantages in a line of work that...
Rough Ride

Mountain bikers and hikers face off over wilderness.

By Eric Dexheimer
May 26, 2005

Here's a brainteaser for you and your mountain-biking buds to ponder over a bottle of Fat Tire after your latest single-track adventure: Is a mountain bike a machine? It's not exactly the riddle of the Sphinx. But like many seemingly inane sports ponderables (how, exactly, did Carmelo get into bars...

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