Schleck gets yellow jersey for 2010

MONDORF-LES-BAINS, LUXEMBOURG — Almost two years later, Andy Schleck has his yellow jersey for winning the 2010 Tour de France.

The Luxembourg rider finished second in the race, but Alberto Contador was stripped of the title for failing a doping test.

Schleck has repeatedly said the decision to give him the title felt like a hollow victory since he did not win it on the grueling roads of France. Contador lost the title when sports' highest court in February rejected his story that contaminated meat caused the failed drug test.

"It is two years after, but I will never forget this tour it has been a very good tour," Schleck said.

The jersey was handed over Tuesday in a ceremony attended by Tour de France organizers. It came on the eve of the Tour de Luxembourg, a tuneup for the Tour de France, which starts June 30.

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Babe Ruth jersey sold for record sum

NEW YORK — A baseball jersey worn by Babe Ruth has sold for more than $4.4 million, a record for any item of sports memorabilia, according to the buyer and seller.

SCP Auctions said the circa 1920 New York Yankees uniform top is the earliest known jersey worn by The Bambino and it fetched $4,415,658 at the company's April auction, which ended Sunday. SCP Auctions says that price broke the previous record of $4,338,500 set in 2010 for James Naismith's founding rules of basketball.

Lelands.com said it submitted the winning bid for Ruth's jersey, which had been displayed for years at The Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum in Baltimore.

Suzan French, a spokeswoman for Lelands.com, said the company plans to sell the jersey privately rather than re-auction it.

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Lions to retire Inao's No. 24 jersey

The Seibu Lions will retire former Nishitetsu Lions ace Kazuhisa Inao's No. 24, sources familiar with the matter said Saturday.

It will be the first retired number since Seibu began to own the Lions in 1979. Inao died of cancer in November 2007 at age 70.

In 1958, Nishitetsu came back from a three-games-to-none deficit to win the Japan Series against the Yomiuri Giants, with Inao winning four straight decisions from Game 4, three of them complete games.

Three years later, Inao won a Japanese baseball single-season record-tying 42 games.

Widely known as one of Japanese baseball's greatest pitchers of all time, Inao logged a lifetime 276-137 record with a 1.98 ERA, spending his entire career with the Lions until 1969.

Inao led the PL in wins four times and in ERA five times. In 1993, he was inducted into Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame.

Seibu plans to have all players on the team wear No. 24 in a game this summer.

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Lewis to run for New Jersey Senate

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis is planning to run for New Jersey Senate.

A state Democratic Party official said Lewis was to announce his candidacy on Monday.

Lewis called a 2 p.m. news conference in Burlington County to announce his "political plans."

His advisory, issued Sunday night, contained no specific details.

However, a party official speaking on condition of anonymity so as not to upstage the 49-year-old Lewis says the civic activist and four-time medalist plans to run in the 8th legislative district.

The seat is now held by Republican Dawn Addiego.

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