Can Austin Kick-Start the Hybrid-Car Future?

Austin Energy looks toward 'electrifying the transportation grid'

"...aspire to commit to purchasing thousands of plug-in hybrid Sprinter vans, currently being developed by the Electric Power Research..."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Tour de France Report: Stages 20-21

Show's over, folks

"...into Paris is the ultimate stage win for every sprinter in the Tour. This is the first time in..."

July 28, 2014 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Yellow in UK

Fellow Brits go to the mat in Tour's UK stages

"...who would never normally win the Tour de France (sprinters, time trialists, domestiques, newer riders) to win a stage..."

June 23, 2014 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France 2012: Stage 6

The last sprinter-friendly stage

"...Tour Talk Today marks the last sprinter-friendly stage before we get into the more mountainous stages..."

July 7, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France 2012: Stage 4

The day belongs to the sprinters

"...but make no mistake, the day belongs to the sprinters. There will be one midstage sprint, and then the..."

July 5, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France 2012: Stage 3

In France, finally

"...finish line. I maintain that he is not a sprinter, and thus, will not get the best of Cavendish...."

July 4, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France 2012: Stage 2

Fabian Cancellara remains best overall

"...but nothing big enough to trip up the anxious sprinters, of which there are many this Tour...."

July 3, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Naked City

City leaders announce plan to push hybrid cars here and nationwide

"...begin testing the only prototype currently available, the DaimlerChrysler Sprinter van, in early 2006...."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Tour de France Report: Stage 6

Another flat day, but the mountains are looming.

"...In the end the sprinters persevered. The breakaway group was caught, with Luis Maté..."

July 10, 2014 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France Report: Stages 1-3

The Tour's first three days cycle through England

"...and the whole of England is was counting on sprinter Mark Cavendish to ride first into Harrogate in front..."

July 7, 2014 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France 2013: Stages 5 – 9

Team leaders emerge as the Tour enters week two

"...It was in similar fashion that sprinter André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) won Stage 6 the following day,..."

July 10, 2013 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France 2013: Stages 1 & 2

Racers ready, set, go for a month of mountains and mayhem

"...stage was a flat group stage favoring the race’s sprinters...."

July 1, 2013 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

'9.79*' Revisits '88 HGH Scandal

Johnson comes off likable, Lewis a bit of a jerk

"...you’ve probably never heard of nor cared about Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson. So to spend two hours discovering who..."

Oct. 9, 2012 Sports Post by Will Eidam

Tour de France 2012: Stage 12

Bradley Wiggins wears the yellow

"...anymore points toward the green jersey without letting their sprinter, Matty Goss, (Australia) get some points too...."

July 13, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France 2012: Stage 11

Fabian Cancellara abandons the Tour

"...for him in his first year as an actual sprinter. Sad loss...."

July 12, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France 2012: Stage 10

Bradley Wiggins on top

"...having an identity crisis. He claims to be a sprinter and yet today, he was one of the original..."

July 11, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France 2012: Stage 5

Germany's Andre Greipel wins the stage

"...break away. On probably one of the flattest, most sprinter-perfect stages, we don't want to see a break away..."

July 6, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Playing Through

At only 18, UT's Stacey-Ann Smith has everything it takes to be one of the world's fastest track and field athletes

"...freshman in high school, she was already the fastest sprinter in the state of Connecticut. "I was like, 'I'm..."

April 24, 2009 Column by Thomas Hackett

Naked City

"...September, involves purchasing a fleet of next-generation hybrid DaimlerChrysler Sprinter vans for city use, charging them at night with..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...hypothetically creating a fleet of wind-powered city vehicles. The Sprinter vans, manufactured by DaimlerChrysler, are intended for commercial and..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Cremaster Cycle: Part 3

Despite its numeric designation, Part 3 is the concluding installment of Barney's art cycle. It fuses mysticism and modernism and was filmed in New York's Chrysler Building and Guggenheim Museum, among other places. Barney plays the apprentice who endures torture and travails while ascending each building.

"...eyeball. And then there’s Aimee Mullins, a celebrated professional sprinter and double amputee; Barney fetishizes her clear plastic prosthetics..."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Luv Doc: A Low Bar

People didn't move here for the meatpacking jobs

"...on their hands – certainly enough to renovate old Sprinter vans or while away the afternoon in coffee shops..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Uncancel the Olympics With a DIY Decathlon

How one man became the world's greatest athlete* (of his backyard)

"...up the concrete beneath my Nikes. Fans of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt will be happy to know his record,..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Tracy Morgan on Almost Dying, The Last O.G., and Being Barbershop Famous

SNL star goes back to the gentrified hood at SXSW

"...who hadn't slept in over a day struck a Sprinter limo-van Morgan was riding in, off Exit 9 on..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Luv Doc: Crock-Pot Potpourri

In which the Luv Doc gives a one-word answer

"...old Eighties model that costs less than a Dodge Sprinter and has the current band's name spray-painted over the..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Hornography

"...titles in consecutive years. Led by the nation's top sprinter Morolake Akino­sun, who made more history by becoming the..."

May 20, 2016 Sports Column by Kahron Spearman

Folk Music Fireball!

Sixty years ago this month and next, Elvis Presley destroyed Austin

"...Lockhart's! Elvis is at Lockhart's!' I was a pudgy sprinter, and it didn't take me about 10 yards towards..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Rolling Stones

"...performance in Texas. "San Antonio, 1964," nodded the 71-year-old sprinter. "A hamburger and autograph party at the state fair."..."

June 12, 2015 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Chris Porter’s Southern Wit and Grit

Alabama transplant teams with Centro-Matic frontman on new CD

"...next year I can weasel my way into a Sprinter van or something.”..."

April 17, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...with emotion, on her eponymous 2013 debut. For follow-up Sprinter, due in May on Partisan, the Georgia native recorded..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

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