Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich had his home raided last week in an investigation tied to doping infractions. Among other items seized, authorities confiscated samples of Ullrich's DNA, to be compared to frozen blood samples found by Spanish police.

Resample:

In the context of high-performance athletics, we might say that the overexposed athletic body, both externally, in terms of its global position, and internally, in terms of its chemical composition, prefigures the telos of total control. We might also say, in following Virilio's logic, that the threat of disappearance comes from the disgraced few that are caught being erased from the archives/record books as if their performance never existed.

A tidbit from last night's Pittsburgh-Miami NFL game, which the Steelers won 28-17:

[Heath] Miller was actually knocked out of bounds before reaching the endzone, but the play stood when Dolphins head coach Nick Saban nonchalantly tossed the challenge flag on the field and it went unseen by the officials.

"They said they didn't see it," Saban said. "Whose fault is that?

"We cannot challenge something until we see it [on TV replays]. When we saw it, I threw the flag.

"It was well before the kicker kicked it [the convert]. The official said he didn't see it and when he said he didn't see it, there was nothing he could do."

Resample: The spectacle of network television is no longer a layer superimposed on the professional sport product, but rather exists structurally as part of its games. As a result, there is now a turntablist aesthetic to the competition itself, in which players and coaches strategically experience the game in non-linear time to gain maximum benefit.