NIMES, France — Cadel Evans of Australia wore the yellow jersey as riders started Saturday's 14th stage of the Tour de France, the last day before the showcase race hits the high mountains in the Alps.

With three riders having been kicked out for doping violations, and 19 others pulling out with injury or fatigue, the 158 remaining cyclists took the 120.9-mile trek from Nimes to Digne-les-Bains which featured some small climbs as it snaked toward the foothills of the Alps.

The 31-year-old Evans, runner-up last year, defended a one-second lead over Frank Schleck of Luxembourg and a 38-second gap ahead of American rider Christian Vande Velde.

MILWAUKEE — First-round leader Richard S. Johnson shot 3-under par 67 Friday and Nick Flanagan had a 7-under 63 to share the second-round lead at 10-under at the U.S. Bank Championship over the 6,579-yard Brown Deer Park Golf Course.Kent Jones and Gavin Coles were tied for third a shot back of the leaders. Jones shot 65 and Coles, of Australia, had the low round of the tournament at 62, one shy of the course record.Another stroke back at 132 were Troy Matteson and Ken Duke, who both shot 65.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Christina Kim's second-round 68 at the LPGA State Farm Classic Friday looked ordinary compared to her opening 63, but it included a birdie putt on her last hole that gave her a one-stroke lead over the charging Michelle Wie and three others.Kim was the first-day leader, but said Friday was, by comparison, a fight. She bogeyed the par-5 sixth hole and saved par on her opening hole only after finding the green with her second shot from behind a line of trees well off the fairway.