What Lance Armstrong did for cancer, the "Team Type 1" professional bicycling team is doing for diabetes.

The scene isn't New Zealand. Teams don't race through jungles and navigate flooded rivers for cash on television.

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It's always hard to leave the Lowcountry for a weekend this time of year. The weather usually is impeccable, and there's so much fun stuff to do. You can have a string of action-packed weekends in a row without leaving a 10-mile radius of your house. Yet, because we're so used to the midspring hoopla here, few weekends are truly memorable. All that fun just fades together over time.

In 2005, when his esophageal cancer was in remission, Dick Shaffer ran a marathon in Houston and joined bicyclist Lance Armstrong on the Tour of Hope, a 3,300-mile nationwide tour of cancer hospitals and fundraisers during which Shaffer encouraged cancer patients to never give up.

It was the thrill of victory for Greg Dorow and his son-in-law, Jared Dickerson. The two won the first-ever men’s...

There's a reason the Los Gatos Bicycle Racing Club's premier event of the year, the Cat's Hill Classic, is not called the Cat's Hills race.

The award is presented to a volunteer with a disability who ‘‘has a zest for life” making the most of his or her opportunities and who connects with the community, according to the nomination form.

What happens at those revival meetings? —Catholic in Karns Boy, did you catch me at the right time! I spent last weekend at the Franklin Graham Festival.

The French government on Wednesday moved to toughen anti-doping legislation ahead of this summer's Tour de France. Members of Parliament adopted a new law which penalises the possession and trafficking of doping products in sport with prison sentences and fines.