Mark your calendars: The 2010 edition of the Amgen Tour of California is scheduled for May 16-23.

This change could be a good or a bad thing. The race previously has been scheduled for a week in February for its first four years.

Good: May is a much more weather-friendly month in California than February. In fact, a couple of stages in the past two years have been downright miserable.

Bad: The dates put it smack dab in the middle of next year's Giro d'Italia, which has been the cycling world's focus in May for decades ...   more »