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Cadel Evans rides through crash pain
Published on Tuesday, Jul 15, 2008
From Beacon Journal wire services
Bruised and sore and aching from head to ankles, Cadel Evans stood on the podium in Hautcam, France, with tears in his eyes and a yellow jersey on his back.
The Australian took the overall lead in the Tour de France on Monday after a punishing 10th stage through the Pyrenees. His surge to the front came a day after he tumbled over his handlebars, leaving him with a cracked helmet and a body coated with cuts. He feared his Tour de France was over.
''Yesterday, I was at what's, for me, been my Tour low,'' he said. ''And today, up until this point in the Tour, it's been my Tour high. It's a bit an emotional roller coaster, to say the least.''
The Silence Lotto leader, 31, a favorite going into the race, seized the lead from Kim Kirchen of Luxembourg in a stage won by Leonardo Piepolo of Italy on Bastille Day. Evans has the smallest possible lead — one second — over Frank Schleck of Luxembourg as the race takes a rest day today.
With nine riders within 21/2 minutes of Evans, the Tour appears wide open and poised for more racing drama as organizers hope to get past the doping scandals that have battered the sport's image.
Piepolo won the 97-mile stage from Pau to Hautacam by shedding all rivals except his Saunier Duval teammate Juan Jose Cobo Acebo of Spain on the final uphill climb to the ski station.
Evans rode with pain all the way after his spill Sunday in the first stage in the Pyrenees.
College: Kellogg new CBS lead analyst
• CBS announced Monday that Clark Kellogg, a former Ohio State and NBA player, would replace Billy Packer after 27 years as the network's lead college basketball analyst. ''This decision was made with myself and CBS over a year ago,'' said Packer, 68. Including his earlier years at NBC, Packer had done every Final Four since 1975, an unparalleled run for a national sports championship.
• Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., announced that men's basketball coach Ritchie McKay has hired Kyle Getter from Walsh University in North Canton, where he was the top assistant.
NFL: Assault charged dropped
• Prosecutors dropped an assault charge against former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry on Monday, clearing the way for him to apply for reinstatement in the National Football League.
• Brett Favre says he wants to play, but doesn't feel welcome in Green Bay, so he's asking to be released. The quarterback's first substantial comments on his latest retirement decision reversal came in an interview broadcast Monday night on On the Record With Greta Van Susteren on Fox News.
• The Washington Redskins agreed to terms with sixth-round draft pick Colt Brennan. The Heisman Trophy finalist from Hawaii will compete for the No. 3 quarterback job behind Jason Cambpell and Todd Collins when the Redskins open training camp.
NHL: Nolan out as Islanders' coach
• Ted Nolan's brief run as the New York Islanders' coach ended Monday when he and General Manager Garth Snow decided he should not return for a third season behind the bench. The rift between Nolan and Snow grew last season when the Islanders failed to make the playoffs. Snow said he felt the team was underachieving ; Nolan countered that he lacked adequate personnel.
• The Dallas Stars rewarded coach Dave Tippett for a trip to the Western Conference finals by adding two years to his deal, keeping him under contract through the 2010-11 season.
• The Toronto Maple Leafs acquired forward Ryan Hollweg from the New York Rangers for a 2009 fifth-round draft pick. . . . Free agent forward Jason Williams, who scored 13 goals for Chicago despite missing nearly half the season with an injury, signed with the Atlanta Thrashers. . . . The Tampa Bay Lightning signed goalie Mike Smith to a $4.4 million, two-year contract extension. . . . The Vancouver Canucks signed center Jason Krog.
Other: Newman leaving Penske team
• Ryan Newman, projected as a possible teammate for Tony Stewart on the two-time NASCAR champion's new team, will leave Penske Racing at the end of the 2008 season.
• Chase Hilgenbrinck, 26, a reserve defender for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer, on Monday retired from professional soccer to enter a seminary, where he will spend the next six years studying theology and philosophy so he can be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. ''It's not that I'm ready to leave soccer. I still have a great passion for the game,'' he said. ''I wouldn't leave the game for just any other job. I'm moving on for the Lord. . . . I want to do what he wants for me, not what I want to do for myself.''
• Second-seeded Gilles Simon won his debut match at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships, outlasting Nicolas Mahut 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the opening round.
From Beacon Journal wire services
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