FLORENCE, Italy — Mark Caven- dish of Britain won the 13th stage of the Giro d’Italia in a mass sprint Friday, the third time he has won a leg of this year’s race. Denis Menchov of Russia kept the overall leader’s pink jersey.
Menchov maintained a 34-second lead over Danilo Di Luca of Italy in the overall standings. Levi Leipheimer of the United States is third, 40 seconds behind.
Menchov, Di Luca, Leipheimer and Lance Armstrong finished with the main pack, eight seconds behind Cavendish. Armstrong remained 12th overall, 6 minutes, 34 seconds behind Menchov.
Torres sets U.S. record in 50 fly
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Dara Torres set a U.S. record in the 50-meter butterfly morning meet, then improved that time in the evening final at the Texas Senior Circuit No. 2 meet at Texas A&M.
Torres, 42, breezed to victory in the 50 fly, touching the wall in 25.72 seconds to beat her record time of 25.84 seconds from the morning preliminaries. Her times beat Jenny Thompson‘s American record of 26.00 seconds, set in Barcelona in 2003. Marleen Veldhuis of the Netherlands set the world record of 25.33 seconds in April.
Police find former Buff Jeangerard
SAN CARLOS, Calif. — Police found Robert Jeangerard, a 75-year-old member of the 1956 Olympic champion U.S. basketball team who wandered from his home and was missing for four days.
Jeangerard, who played basketball at the University of Colorado and now has Alzheimer’s disease, was the second-leading scorer on the gold-medal team led by Bill Russell. Jeangerard led the team with 16 points in an 89-55 victory over the Soviet Union for the gold medal.
Nowitzki lawyer doubts woman’s pregnancy claim
DALLAS — A lawyer for Dirk Nowitzki said he doubts a woman’s claim that she is pregnant with the Dallas Mavericks star’s baby.
Christa Ann Taylor, 37, said from jail that Nowitzki was her fiance and that she learned she was pregnant after she was arrested at his house on a probation violation and theft of services warrants.
Robert Hart, Nowitzki’s Dallas- based lawyer, said in a statement: “If in the remote instance there is any validity to this woman’s claim of pregnancy, Dirk will do whatever can be done to ensure the well- being of the child.”
Taylor said she’s lived with Nowitzki for the last two years.
“I’ve known Dirk for seven years — and, no, I didn’t tell him everything about my past because I was afraid,” she said. “But I mean, now I’m pregnant and alone and broke because he is my only source of income.”
Footnotes.
A pit bull owned by Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison bit his 2-year-old son in the thigh, but the boy is expected to recover though he remained hospitalized.
• Meredith Frank‘s goal with 1:31 left in sudden-death overtime lifted Northwestern past Penn 13-12 in an NCAA women’s lacrosse semifinal in Towson, Md. The Wildcats will seek their fifth consecutive national title Sunday against North Carolina, an 8-7 winner over Maryland. The Associated Press
