June gets it HOT!

So we're still waiting on news updates from the Atlanta Midsummer Invitational Polo tournament and street races, but the Loose Nuts team of Tavel, Jones and Millard and the Mallets of Athens squad of Sakai, Magner and Bushnel have qualified for the 8-team finals to be played on Sunday, June 21. This report from the Duke of the Mallet himself, K Sakai:

• 16 teams descended on the 2009 Atlanta Midsummer Invitational on a sweltering Georgia summer day capped by the temperature & humidity at over 9000. Athens arrived with 3 teams and moral support from the holligans of Athens and parents. The tone of the day for Athens was set with Loose Nuts (Athens-1), MoA (Athens-2) and Random (Athens-Composite) each winning their respective games in round 1. Loose Nuts dominated their games with strong play by Tavel, Millard & Doc Jones. They would later go on to topple Call to Arm's Tournament Champions, Ft Lauderdale, in a physical death match with casualties including lost fingernails and broken spokes. MoA (Athens-2) of Magner, Bushnel & Sakai kept the fire stoked with tournament newcomer, Magner, scoring a hat trick and the team pulling off a flawless record winning all four matches. Both Loose Nuts and MoA-A2 qualified in today's finale.

More information will follow as it is received.  

The next couple of weekends will carry the bike-citement generated by the AMI back home to Athens with a full docket of racing and rabble-rousing brought to you by a virtual whos-who of local two-wheeled celebutards. 

The first event to put your life, limb and potential happiness in jeopardy is The Buddy System, a team alleycat organized by UGA road racer and Loose Nuts cyclocross superstar Mighty Megs Denision and Loose Nuts track racer, polo killer and web mastermind Dr. Benjamin Jones.  

$10 for an afternoon of racing, food and delicious beverages?  Count me in!  Maybe we can get a big bicycle squaredance together and Madison Handsling our partners round and round!  If you don't have your buddy yet, don't worry.  There's always time for making new friends.

Then, on the very next weekend JohnDeere/UGA road bike crusher and stem-creak-freak Rigoberto Simpsoni presents his long-awaited Bastille Day cross-crit.  

I'm not sure what lies in store for racers on that fateful day in July, but you may rest assured that your pale-skinned, soft-bellied, weak-legged, lamb-eating, lassiez-faire, bourgeois ass will be humiliated and laid to rest in a mass grave with the rest of the upper-crusters. If you aren't tough enough, that is. This one's for the people in the streets, not the people City Hall.

Stay Loose.  We'll see you at the races.

-RK