Despite the spring weather, if we close our eyes we can almost imagine being at a late fall cyclocross race. Cowbells ringing, people cheering, racers burying themselves to best a friend and the muddy ...

LOS ANGELES - Tens of thousands of drenched festivalgoers were stranded Sunday in deep, sticky mud in the Nevada desert after torrential rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire.

When Friday night rolls around in the heartland of America, what better way is there to shake off the workweek than to throw on some boots, grab some friends, and take a ride on down to the mud bog?