Sports Desk
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CYCLING
PEREIRO GETS YELLOW JERSEY TO REPLACE LANDIS AS WINNER
Oscar Pereiro finally got his hands on the winner’s yellow jersey from the 2006 Tour de France yesterday. “Finally, we have a winner and it’s Oscar,” Tour director Christian Prudhomme said. “Oscar, you have won the Tour out on the road.” The Spaniard moved up from second to first after the disqualification of Floyd Landis for doping. “I have the feeling of arriving at the end of a thriller, after having spent 14 months thinking about it and not being able to concentrate as I should have on my job,” Pereiro said. “It is essentially a kind of release.”
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
NEBRASKA ATHLETIC DIRECTOR FIRED TWO DAYS AFTER LOSS
Nebraska athletic director Steve Pederson was fired Monday, two days after the school’s once-mighty football team was rocked with its worst home loss in nearly a half-century. Pederson, along with coach Bill Callahan, has been heavily criticized after a series of one-sided losses this season. The most recent was a 45-14 loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday with former Cornhuskers coach Tom Osborne and his 1997 national title team in attendance.
FOOTBALL
YOUNG HAS MRI; COACH SAYS HE’S DAY TO DAY WITH SORE LEG
The Tennessee Titans are hoping quarterback Vince Young is a fast healer. Young had an MRI exam yesterday to check out his strained right quadriceps muscle. The results of the test weren’t immediately available, and coach Jeff Fisher said Young would be considered day to day.