a little champaign for his tour de france win. but armstrong had the last laugh as team radio shack won the team championship donning their black jerseys atop the podium. on his last day, lance rides into the french sunset leaving the tour with a little controversy. >>> to indianapolis for nascar's brickyard 400. disaster for pole sitter mon montoya, with only 15 laps to go, hits the wall and takes out dale earnhardt jr. with him. montoya finishes 32nd. jamie mcmurray beats out harvick on the restart and goes on to win. just the third driver to win the brickyard 400 and the daytona 500 in the same year. >>> angels were able to land dan haren from arizona in exchange for joe saunders and two minor leaguers. >>> cubs and cardinals and wrigley field tied in the 11th. lopez puts this one to bed. solo shot to right. the cards beat the cubbies 4-3. >>> baseball has three new hall of famers. andre dawson, whitey herzog, and doug harvey inducted yesterday into cooperstown. >>> alex rodriguez will be there soon. one away from his 600th hom

champaign, ill., independent line. caller: i think it is easy for people who don't live there.s will not affect their mortgage and their ability to continue their lives. it is easy for us to say it is dangerous and you should stop. if this had not happened, things would keep going on the way they have for years. we have too many middle managers and less people on the ground inspecting these places anyway. you do not have enough people to tell you -- i don't think they have enough people who really know what they're looking at, people who have worked on oil rigs all their lives who know what is going on. you can only learn from working there for years. anyway, i think the moratorium is a good idea and concept, but it is just not practical. i feel really sorry for those people in louisiana. i have watched them on your show speaking with the the special committee. they want the government to get out of the way and let them and bp fix this problem. after what the winter with hurricane katrina and the economic situation, this is their year to make up that money. the government to ge

it is a really great excuse to have a champaign toast.s a long trip, a few flights. we did it -- actually, it was pretty short. it was about six to seven days. >> you have to take a couple of days traveling over there. >> yes. >> that's a little expensive. >> that is. >> here is one not so expensive. >> we have a cruise that leaves, just inaugurated, the norwegian epic, the fireworks were just broadcast there from nbc when it was in new york. now the ship has moved down to miami. it goes to the caribbean. on board they have 20 different bars. one of them is an ice bar. it's just like those ones, it's modelled after the ones in scandinavia. you go into this ice bar, put on a hooded cape. they give you gloves. everything inside is made of ice. the equivalent of 60,000 ice cubes. but they don't give you anything for your feet. i wore open toed feet, my shoes were freezing. it was 17 degrees. >> what about what you sit on, do you have padding? >> nice little padded, a fur area. it's a lot of fun. >> that is silly. >> it is silly. >> also anot