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Sports Briefs: Dumoulin wins stage 3 in the Tour
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Published: July 8, 2008
NANTES, France
On a day that belonged to French cycling, Samuel Dumoulin won the third stage of the Tour de France, and Romain Feillu finished third yesterday to take the leader's yellow jersey.
Dumoulin was the quickest in a group of four who broke away almost from the start of the 129-mile stage from Saint-Malo to Nantes. They were left to wage a tight sprint finish as others rolled behind.
"It is a dream come true," said Dumoulin, who rides for the French-owned Cofidis team. "It is hours and hours of training, braving the rain, the cold, the heat. It took a lot of sacrifice."
William Frischkorn of the United States was second in the stage, just a fraction ahead of Feillu, who took the overall lead from Spain's Alejandro Valverde, the winner of Saturday's first stage. Valverde finished in the main pack, nearly two minutes back.
"I just lacked a bit of strength to get the stage win," Feillu said. "But I got the leader's jersey."
French stage wins and yellow jerseys have been a rarity at the Tour de France since Bernard Hinault won the last of his five Tours in 1985. No French rider wore the yellow jersey last year, and Cyril Dessel held it for just a day in 2006. Thomas Voeckler had it for 10 days in 2004.
"I hope it will give youngsters the desire to take up cycling," Feillu said. "It also shows that we have a good spirit. Samuel knew I wanted the yellow jersey, and I wanted him to win the stage. We were good allies."
Football
■ Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann will reunite on television on NBC's Sunday night NFL coverage.
The network announced the hiring of Patrick yesterday and is hoping to recapture the chemistry that hooked viewers to ESPN's SportsCenter between 1992 and 1997. "It was seamless. We never tried to understand why it worked," Patrick said of his on-air relationship with Olbermann. "It just did."
Patrick joins the returning cast of NBC's studio show that includes Olbermann and host Bob Costas.
■ The New Orleans Saints have hired Brian Adams, a former scout for the Carolina Panthers, as their assistant director of college scouting. The move comes a little more than a month after General Manager Mickey Loomis started a front-office reshuffling with the firing of Rick Mueller, the vice president of player personnel.
Loomis reorganized the scouting department so there would be separate heads of college and pro scouting who report directly to him. Adams will help supervise and train the Saints scouting staff.
■ Coach Lamonte Massie of Livingstone yesterday announced the hiring of assistants Corey Robinson (receivers), Clifton Davis (running backs), Greg Philpot (defensive backs) and Corey McCloud (defensive line).
Robinson has coached at Palatka (Fla.) High School, Fort Hayes State and Nicholls State; Davis played at Fayetteville State and most recently coached running backs at Virginia Union; Philpot, a former defensive back at South Carolina, was an assistant at Salisbury High; and McCloud was an assistant at Savannah State.
Massie also promoted Omar Robinson to tight-ends coach.
Basketball
■ Mike Brey, the Big East men's coach of the year the past two seasons, has agreed to a two-year contract extension to stay at Notre Dame through the 2014-15 season.
■ Western Carolina will make its first appearance in the Preseason WNIT next season and will take on perennial power North Carolina in a first-round game Nov. 14 in Chapel Hill. Western and UNC were the only in-state or ACC teams named to the 16-team field yesterday.
■ Shea Ralph, a former high-school star in Fayetteville and at the University of Connecticut, will return to UConn as an assistant coach in women's basketball. Ralph was the captain on UConn's national-championship team in 2000 and finished her career ranked among the Huskies' top 10 in points, assists, steals and field-goal percentage.
Ice hockey
■ The Carolina Hurricanes yesterday agreed to terms with defenseman Dennis Seidenberg on a one-year, $1.2-million contract. Seidenberg, 26, played 47 games with Carolina last year, finishing with a career-high 15 assists.
High schools
■ Taylor Norman will play for the N.C. girls team, and Jake McCaslin will play for the N.C. boys Saturday in the Clash of the Carolinas soccer all-star games at Blackbaud Stadium in Charleston, S.C. The games will match teams of graduated seniors from North Carolina against similar teams from South Carolina.
Norman, a midfielder, is a recent Reagan High graduate and a Wake Forest signee. McCaslin, a forward, scored 25 goals last fall in helping East Forsyth to the NCHSAA 4-A quarterfinals.
The girls game will start at 3 p.m., the boys game at 5 p.m., and a USL 1 pro game between the Puerto Rico Islanders and Charleston Battery will follow.
■ Keith Gatlin, a point guard at Maryland in the mid-1980s, will be the basketball coach at Veritas Sports Academy of the Triad, the school announced yesterday in a press release.
Veritas, which is scheduled to open in August in Kernersville, also named Robert Linville as golf coach, Jim Georgevich as wrestling coach and Tommy Adcock as baseball coach. Linville is a former golf coach at Greensboro College, Georgevich wrestled at Clarion (Pa.) and has worked in the Guilford County Schools for 19 years, and Adcock is a former pitching instructor for the Kansas City Royals and former coach in Georgia.
Youth sports
■ The Surry Storm finished second last weekend in the 11-under girls Division II AAU national basketball championships in New Haven, Conn.
The Storm went 3-0 to win its pool, then lost to the Boston Showstoppers in its first game of double-elimination bracket play. The Storm came back through the loser's bracket, defeating the Staten Island Rebels, Virginia Hurricanes, Virginia-Maryland Lady Ballers, Winston-Salem Stealers, Long Island Lightning and Williams Red Tide of Virginia to reach the final. The Storm lost 58-25 to the NJB Stars of Southern California in the title game.
■ Robin Jacobs, the age-group coach for the Winston-Salem YMCA swim team, had been named the state age-group coach of the year in voting by more than 200 coaches statewide.
Jacobs works with children 12 and younger and has been the Winston-Salem Y's age-group head coach for 24 years. She also won the state coaching award in 1995 and 1997.
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