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RANGER, Texas -- Former Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillispie retired Wednesday, citing health concerns as he stepped aside as coach at a Texas junior college.The 57-year-old Gillispie said in a text message to The Dallas Morning News that hes been battling high blood pressure since the summer. The former Texas A&M and Texas Tech coach said he is following the advice of doctors by leaving early in his second season at Ranger College.Gillispie was a rising star in the coaching profession after quick rebuilding jobs at UTEP and Texas A&M, leading to the Kentucky job in 2007.He was fired after two seasons when the Wildcats missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 17 years. The West Texas native took the Texas Tech job following a two-year hiatus that included a stint at John Lucas substance-abuse program in Houston following Gillispies third arrest for drunken driving in 10 years.The Red Raiders won just one Big 12 game in Gillispies only season, and he resigned shortly before the start of his second season, citing health concerns amid allegations of player mistreatment. Texas Tech later admitted to violations of practice rules under Gillispie.Ranger went 31-7 in Gillispies only full season, reaching the national junior college tournament before forfeiting all the wins because of an ineligible player.Timing isnt great, but Ive decided to do what I was told and try to return to healthy ASAP, Gillispie said. Ive had a wonderful career and in the last two years some of the best days Ive ever experienced as a coach. I hate leaving this team because they are really coming around, but they understood me being sick.Gillispie has an eight-year record of 148-108 in his four NCAA stints.---More AP college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 Air Max France . Note: The Calgary Flames announced Tuesday that Sean Monahan would not be made available to Canadas World Junior team. Air Max Livraison Gratuite . He said Tuesday thats a big reason why he is now the new coach of the Tennessee Titans. Whisenhunt said he hit it off quickly with Ruston Webster when interviewing for the job Friday night. http://www.airmaxfrancepascher.fr/ . President of baseball operations Larry Beinfest was fired Friday after 12 years with the Marlins. The move came as the team neared the end of its third consecutive last-place season in the NL East. Air Max Pas Cher Chine . Pence singled in the winning run with no outs in the ninth inning to give the Giants a 7-6 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday. Acheter Air Max Pas Cher .com) - The Montreal Canadiens will try to halt their longest losing streak of the season when they host the struggling New York Islanders in tonights clash at the Bell Centre. ALBI, France -- When they sit down late on Saturday afternoon for the ritual they call the "apero" -- meaning nibbles and alcoholic drinks -- the French still wont know who is going to win their beloved Tour de France this year. But they might have a much clearer idea of who wont win it. Riders who dont have the legs to carry them to victory in Paris, who have been bluffing and pretending to be strong in the first third of the 3,404-kilometre Tour, could be cruelly exposed on Saturday when the race sharply gains altitude in the Pyrenees mountains where France and Spain meet. Although the two climbs on the menu arent the most brutal of this 100th Tour, theyre still tough enough to make all but the strongest riders struggle. Just how decisive the ascents prove will depend on how aggressive, ambitious and confident the strongest climbers are feeling. If they want to test overall race favourites Chris Froome and Alberto Contador, or if those two want to test each other, then Stage 8 offers the first real opportunity for them to do so. "It depends if people want to hold their cards close to their chests or if they want to come out swinging," said American rider Tejay van Garderen. "I expect for them to come out swinging, so there should probably be some big gaps." Almost certainly, Daryl Impeys second day in the race leaders yellow jersey on Saturday will be his last, at least this year. The first South African to wear that prized shirt doesnt have the uphill bursts of speed to stay with Froome, Contador and other contenders for overall victory should they go at each other like hammer and tongs up to the Col de Pailheres, immediately followed by a slightly less arduous ascent to the Ax 3 Domaines ski station. Impey is convinced Froome will be wearing yellow in Paris on July 21. "The climbing ability hes shown, hes definitely nearly in a league of his own. Hes obviously a different climber to Contador, but I think Chris is going to be hard to beat." On a stage that, with the mountains looming, felt like the calm before a storm, Peter Sagan from Slovakia won the finishing sprint Friday in Albi, an enchanting medieval city on the banks of the Tarn river, dominated by its 13th century fortified brick-built Sainte-Cecile Cathedral and listed as a World Heritage site by the United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO. Impey rode strongly to stay in Sagans bunch and keep the race lead he inherited from teammate Simon Gerrans on Thursday. Ryder Hesjedal of Victoria was tied for 13th overall, 22 seconds off the lead, after finishing the stage in the front pack. Quebec Citys David Veilleux is in 139th overall, 40:26 off the pace, and Svein Tuft of Langley, B.C., was 55:26 behind in 178th. Sagan is ruunning away with the Tours chase for the green jersey, awarded to the rider who collects most points from sprints at the end of stages and during them.dddddddddddd He won that jersey last year, too. Sagan is known both for his speed and versatility as a rider and an impish sense of humour. He embarrassed himself and quickly apologized earlier this year for pinching the bottom of a podium hostess at the Tour of Flanders, grinning cheekily as he squeezed. He has been all business since the Tour set off from Corsica on June 29. Since he was bloodied in a crash on the first day, Sagan has never finished lower than third in a stage (not including the team time trial on Stage 4) -- with three second places, one third place and now a win on Stage 7. It took the pack up four moderate climbs on a 205.5-kilometre slog in intense heat from Montpellier. Assuming Impey surrenders the race lead on Saturday, the 2012 Tour will get its fifth different wearer of the yellow jersey. The record at a single Tour is eight, which happened in both 1958 and 1987. The 15.3-kilometre long climb to Pailheres, topping out at an altitude of 2,001 metres is tougher than the shorter ascent to Axe. But that last climb might be more decisive because it comes at the very end of the stage, meaning it could turn into an uphill sprint finish. "Well know who has already lost the Tour and the contenders for victory," said Alain Gallopin, a director on the RadioShack-Leopard team. "Therell be no more secrets, no bluff." RadioShack-Leopards main contender for overall victory, 2010 winner Andy Schleck, on Friday lamented the teams decision to cut ties with his brother Frank -- the third-place finisher in 2011 who is absent from this Tour because he is completing a one-year ban for testing positive for a diuretic at last years race. "Im sad and disappointed, and if I tell you what I honestly think they might use it against me and fire me as well," Andy Schleck said. The three-week Tour has now lost 10 of its original 198 starters, with another three dropping out Friday. They included veteran American rider Christian Vande Velde. Riding with back pain and a blood clot in a neck muscle from a crash on Wednesdays Stage 5, the 37-year-old tumbled again, on a bridge. "I was on top and underneath a lot of people," he said. "I wont be back next year. This was my last Grand Tour. Its not a great way to go." The Garmin-Sharp rider last year testified to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that he took banned performance-enhancers when he rode with Lance Armstrong on the U.S. Postal Service team. This Tour is the first since Armstrong was last year stripped of his seven Tour titles from 1999-2005 for serial doping. ' ' '