And while we're on sports that aren't all that interesting, Lance Armstrong is in Australia at the moment - you hadn't heard? - and is creating all sorts of warm and fuzzy picture opportunities, like this one in a South Australian hospital.

It seems 37-year-old Lance of Yellow Wristband can do no wrong in this unlikely-looking comeback when it comes to the Aussie media coverage of his tour through the Adelaide hills. Don't put the Herald Sun's Trevor Grant in that category:

WHEN we were children the best way to avoid anything horrible or uncomfortable was to pretend it did not exist.

As far as I know the people who run the South Australian Government are all grown-ups but they seem to have borrowed this tried and true method of avoidance.

From Premier Mike Rann down, they have simply chosen to ignore some inconvenient realities as they go weak at the knees in the presence of cycling's controversial champion, Lance Armstrong.

And it's not just the politicians who prefer to look the other way as they preen themselves over the appearance of Armstrong, secured at an estimated cost of $1 million to the taxpayer.

Ask about drugs as the Tour Down Under cyclists whiz past in the Adelaide Hills this week and you are liable to be flung under wheels.

Grant, being a proud Victorian, slings some gratuitous insults at fawning Croweaters (this is to his credit). But the beatification of St Lance has been a pursuit indulged by all media across the country. Not that I've been watching all that closely, but the 7.30 Report has been the only media outlet I've seen that's really raised the fact that an Armstrong urine sample from the 1999 Tour de France allegedly contained the banned endurance enhancing substance EPO. As Dr Mike Ashenden, an expert in blood doping, told the ABC the other night:

I think that Lance Armstrong's era is unquestionably associated with drug use.

It seems like following the Tour de Phil late at night on SBS gets trendier every year. July is now accompanied not just by freezing cold weather, but boring know-it-alls who drone on and on about how the Aussies go OK on the plains but get eaten alive by the Europeans in the mountains. Even when Cadel came so close last year (accompanied by media coverage normally reserved for future Test openers from NSW who are yet to face a first class delivery) I just can't get excited about a sport that's been based on cheating for at least the last 20 years.

On the other hand, Major League Baseball (greatest. game. ever.) is an entirely different story.

Hypocrite!