Leip’n lizards!

Hey, whaddaya think you're looking at, pal?
Hey, whaddaya think you're looking at, pal?

More good news today for the Radio Shackstrong crowd.

First, in The New York Times, another former teammate has detailed “some of his own drug use, as well as the widespread cheating that he said went on as part of the Postal Service team,” all of it allegedly performed with the “knowledge and encouragement” of Texus Maximus his own bad self.

Second, at VeloNews.com, former Gerolsteiner honch’ Hans-Michael Holczer — who is pimping a book, “Guaranteed Positive” — charges that Levi Leipheimer was blood doping during the 2005 Tour de France. Holczer said he would have pulled Leipheimer from the race but feared losing his title sponsor, otherwise known as his meal ticket.

“I was caught between a moral obligation and a legal threat,” Holczer said. “After (Danilo Hondo’s positive) we were sitting on an economic landmine. I was facing total bankruptcy.”

Neither Big Tex nor Leapin’ Levi seems eager to discuss these latest allegations with the press. They know that when the phone rings, it’s not some hack calling to ask how nifty it feels to win a bike race, because they’re not doing much of that sort of thing these days. It’s either Juliet Macur, Jeff Novitzky or one of their lawyers, and who wants to chat with that lot?

Or it’s some executive veep for marketing over at The Shack calling to ask, “Say, remind me, can you, exactly why the fuck did we get into this sport again?”

• In other news: Gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes (R-Batshit) is getting plenty of attention following his dire warnings about the Hammer and Cycle transforming Mile High into Mao High. Uh, Dan — they’re laughing at you, not with you.