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began discussing their new rides inside the Redskins’ locker room. Golston had ridden his bike to work on this day, and he promised to show it to Sellers when they went out for conditioning drills. Young safety Chris Horton overheard the conversation, and wanted in on the bike viewing. Everyone likes to see a pro football player’s motorcycle, right?


So then everyone went outside, and Golston proudly pointed to his Trek hybrid. “He sees it’s a 12-speed, and it crushed him,” Golston recalled. “He’s like, ‘Man, this dude’s


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ne day, as football players are wont to do, Kedric Golston and Mike Sellers


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riding a bike.’ ” Yes, Kedric Golston sometimes rides his bicycle to work at Redskins Park. So does Lorenzo Alexander. So have past Redskins defensive linemen like Cornelius Griffin and Renaldo Wynn.


“Once you get past the fact that you’re riding your bike to


Quick Fix 6From the blogs at washingtonpost.com/sports


RECRUITING INSIDER From Ballou to Chapel Hill, Lewter is talk of the town When Jamar Lewter went to


North Carolina last spring for the Tar Heels’ Junior Day, the Ballou tackle was surprised by the reception he got on campus. “People were coming up to


me, like, ‘Are you Jamar Lewter from Ballou?’ ” he recalled. “I was like, ‘Yeah.’ And then they said, ‘Oh, you gotta come here.’ Then I said to myself, ‘That’s nice, but I don’t know who you are.’ I was the talk of the town.” Now, the 6-foot-7, 265-pound tackle will have plenty of time to get to know the folks in Chapel Hill. Lewter orally committed to the Tar Heels on Sunday night, forgoing a fall of official visits. Senior defensive tackle


Marvin Austin and sophomore defensive back LeCount Fantroy are former Ballou players on the UNC roster.


—Alan Goldenbach QUOTABLE


“If Iverson shows he has something left in his furnace, somebody will sign him. But his days of being a dominant player are over.”


REDSKINS INSIDER Tanya Snyder to be honored for breast cancer awareness work Tanya Snyder, wife of Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, will be honored Thursday for her efforts to promote breast cancer awareness at the 50th national convention of Zeta Tau Alpha fraternity for women in New Orleans. A breast cancer survivor,


Snyder is a founding partner of ZTA’s Think Pink! campaign with the NFL, and last season served as the national spokeswoman for the league’s “A Crucial Catch” campaign.” She will continue in that role this season. In 1999, the Redskins were the


first NFL team to dedicate a game to breast cancer education and awareness. Since then, 28 of 32 NFL teams have partnered with ZTA’s Think Pink! campaign.


—Paul Tenorio


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Redskins’ Golston, Alexander spend offseason moving the chains, too


work, it’s really enjoyable for us big guys,” Golston told me. “A lot of times we may be able to have an extra bowl of ice cream, and it wouldn’t affect us.” Golston and Alexander are frequent biking partners, riding for perhaps 20 miles together on the Washington and Old Dominion Trail, which is near their Northern Virginia homes. There may not be a lot of 300-pound NFL linemen on the trail, but they said no one pays them much mind. “We talk about life; we talk about football,” Alexander said. “Sometimes we’re just silent,”


Golston added. “You’ll see people with better


bikes, older women and men, 55 or 60 years old, just flying by us,”


Alexander said. “We’ve got the shoes, we’ve got the tights, we’ve got the biking shorts,” Golston said. “We look official. Just like really big guys on bikes.” “And you save money on gas,”


Alexander pointed out. As they’ve gotten more and


more attracted to biking culture, Alexander and Golston started exploring its charity side, twice riding in local charity races, once for 63 miles. This year, they went further, joining to host the July 18 Ride to Provide on the W&OD, which will raise money for Alexander’s ACES Foundation and other charitable causes. (You’ll note that this item is doing nothing to advance my stated goal of 1,000 Albert


Haynesworth blog posts by Sept. 12. Thus, let me inject this quote from Vikings defensive end Jared Allen. Asked about the Redskins’ most-blogged-about lineman on Phoenix’s KTAR, Allen said “I tell you what, I’d show up and just drink water for $30 million.” Me, it would have to be low-sodium V8. Then I’m in.) Anyhow, back to the defensive linemen on bikes. They were out for an hour-long ride Monday, but truth is, there aren’t as many joint trips as there used to be. Golston is supposed to be at about 310 or 300 pounds next season, and he finds it difficult to maintain that weight while also riding regularly. Alexander, meantime, is switching to outside linebacker and is aiming


for 265 or 270 pounds, so his training needs are different. Neither man has yet splurged for the sort of bike that would impress Horton. Alexander is worried that his weight would crush a high-end carbon-fiber model, and he isn’t sure if he’ll still want to ride when his NFL career is over. Golston,


meantime, knows he would want to ride a new toy incessantly, and there’s that weight issue again. And they don’t commute to work on two wheels during the season, but if it’s a nice summer day, why not? “It takes you back to your


youth,” Golston said. “We all grew up loving to ride bikes. We’re all just big kids.” steinbergd@washpost.com


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Capitals sign Gordon to one-year contract The Washington Capitals re- signed checking-line center Boyd Gordon on Tuesday to a one-year contract worth $800,000, a slight bump from the $761,250 he earned last season. Gordon, who was limited to 36 games because of a back injury in 2009-10, had four goals and six assists in his sixth season with the Capitals, who selected him 17th overall in 2002. The 26-year-old penalty-kill and face-off specialist had been one of the team’s four unsigned restricted free agents. The others — Tomas Fleischmann, Eric Fehr and Jeff Schultz — applied for salary arbitration yesterday. ...


— Tarik El-Bashir The St. Louis Blues have signed


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The Vancouver Canucks have a


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GOLF After another warm welcome from the Irish public, Tiger Woods turned curt and dismis- sive at a news conference when asked about his state of mind since the sex scandal that’s wrecked his marriage. Woods was questioned follow- ing his 3-under-par 69 in his final round of the charity J.P. McMa- nus Invitational Pro-Am, his first foreign appearance since the tur- moil.


When asked whether his liai- sons with other women had been “worth it” since it cost him his marriage and endorsements, Woods replied, “I think you’re looking too deep into this.” He torpedoed the follow-up question with an icily firm “Thank you.” Woods is returning immediately to his Florida home to see his children rather than heading to Scotland to prepare for next week’s British Open at St. Andrews.


COLLEGES Fired Seton Hall basketball


Coach Bobby Gonzalez has been arrested on suspicion of shop- lifting at a New Jersey mall. Millburn police say the 47-year-


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lo Ralph Lauren store in the Short Hills Mall on June 29. . . . Frank Crumley is Georgia


President Michael Adams’s se- lection to serve as interim athlet- ic director as a search begins for a full-time replacement for Damon Evans, who resigned following a DUI arrest last week.


Southern California football


Coach Lane Kiffin said the school has released top recruit Seantrel Henderson from his national let- ter of intent, the latest blow to a school reeling from an NCAA scandal. Defensive end Malik Jackson also announced he will transfer to Tennessee. The 6-foot-5, 245-pound junior


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TRACK AND FIELD Caster Semenya was cleared to immediately return to track by the sport’s governing body, end- ing an 11-month layoff while she underwent gender tests after be- coming the 800-meter world champion. Semenya is allowed to keep running as a woman, although it is unclear if she has had any med- ical procedure or treatment dur- ing her time away. . . . Lim Eun-ji, South Korea’s rec- ord holder in the women’s pole vault, has been suspended for three months after testing posi- tive for a prohibited substance,


cials say he could play in Wednes- day’s World Cup semifinal match against Germany. . . . FIFA will continue monitoring


Nigerian soccer for possible polit- ical interference, even though the government backed down from threats to suspend the national team for two years.


the country’s doping watchdog said.


MISC. The arrest of JaMarcus Rus-


sell for alleged possession of co- deine syrup resulted from a two- month undercover investigation that could result in more arrests. Mobile County Sheriff ’s Office


spokeswoman Lori Myles said that the investigation wasn’t tar- geting the former Oakland Raid- ers quarterback but that his name and home address had come up several times. . . . Police say they know who did the shooting following a Michael Vick birthday celebration, but the shooter will not be charged “at this time” because the victim has not cooperated with investiga- tors. . . . Two-time Olympian Mark Greenwald has agreed to become the executive director of U.S. Speedskating.


— From news services


ARENBERG, FRANCE — Lance Armstrong’s hopes for victory in his final Tour de France hit a setback Tuesday when a burst tire cost him time during a jarring stage over cobblestones that was won by Norway’s Thor Hushovd. “Our chances took a knock today,” Armstrong said. “I’m not going home, we’ll stay in the race and keep trying.” Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland finished the third stage in a five-man group behind Hushovd, but he regained the yellow jersey he ceded a day earlier to Sylvain Chavanel of France. Hushovd was ahead of Geraint Thomas of Britain and world champion Cadel Evans of Australia in a sprint finish among the leading group of riders. The 132-mile ride from Belgium to France


was the most dreaded stage of Week 1 — with seven sections of bone-jarring cobblestones that threatened injury, bike damage or lost time for contenders. “Bad luck,” Armstrong said, referring to his mishap in the fifth patch. Some had worse luck: Frank Schleck of Luxembourg, who won the Tour of Switzerland last month, crashed on the fourth section and was out of the race and taken to hospital.


Armstrong noted there’s still a lot of


racing left in the three-week race, which now heads toward the Alps and later the Pyrenees before the Paris finish on July 25. “It’s the nature of the sport,” he said.


“Sometimes you’re the hammer, sometimes you’re the nail. Today I was the nail. I have 20 days now to be the hammer.” Armstrong had predicted “carnage” during the stage, one that many riders thought could damage plenty of title hopes. The seven-time champion and Schleck were the day’s most prominent losers. Defending champion Alberto Contador, whose abilities on cobblestones had been in doubt, and last year’s runner-up Andy


Schleck, Frank’s younger brother, were among contenders who gained time on Armstrong.


Andy Schleck was fifth, in the same time


as Hushovd: 4 hours 49 minutes 38 seconds. Spain’s Contador came in 13th, 73 seconds back. Armstrong was 32nd, 2:08 back. In the overall standings, Cancellara leads second-place Thomas by 23 seconds and two-time Tour runner-up Evans by 39. Contador is ninth, 1:40 back, and Armstrong tumbled to 18th, 2:30 back. He had been fifth overall. Cancellara, a teammate of the Schlecks who won the opening-day prologue, expressed “mixed feeling” about the day but was delighted to retrieve the leader’s jersey. “Yesterday I gave it up, today I took it,” he


said. “We can call it a good day for Saxo Bank despite the loss of Frank, a great friend.” Seven riders broke away early. Getting out front in such a stage doesn’t just improve chances for a stage victory, it also can help avoid crashes — which are more likely in the frenzied pack.


—Associated Press


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