In Brief

Cavaliers interview Lakers assistant Shaw

The Cavaliers’ 5-week-old coaching search took another turn Tuesday as Los Angeles Lakers assistant Brian Shaw met in Cleveland with owner Dan Gilbert and front office members about the team’s coaching vacancy.

The visit comes just a few days before free agency opens with the Cavs hoping they can convince superstar LeBron James to re-sign and come back for an eighth season — and more. Cleveland would like to have a coach in place by July 1 to settle what has so far been a tumultuous offseason.

It is not yet known if the club has offered its coaching position to Shaw, 43, who is also expected to be in town today.

Also: Steve Kerr is headed back to the TV table, and he plans to stay there for a while.

The former Phoenix Suns general manager agreed to rejoin TNT as a game analyst Monday and will begin work starting with the 2010-11 season.

The New Jersey Nets waived veteran point guard Keyon Dooling.

The Nets announced the move a day before they would have been responsible for his $3.3 million contract.

Over two seasons with New Jersey, Dooling averaged 8.6 points and 3.1 assists.

CYCLING

Armstrong: This will be my last Tour de France

Lance Armstrong posted on his Twitter page this year’s Tour de France will be his last.

"It’s been a great ride. Looking forward to 3 great weeks," Armstrong tweeted.

A seven-time winner of cycling’s most prestigious race, the 38-year-old Armstrong returned to the Tour last year after a three-year absence and finished third behind teammate Alberto Contador of Spain.

Armstrong started a new team for this year’s race. He won the race seven straight times from 1999-2005 before retiring.

The race starts Saturday.

MISCELLANEOUS

Local race car driver dies in mountain climb

A Las Vegas race car driver was killed when his Porsche slid off a curvy, mountain highway that had been closed to traffic for a sanctioned against-the-clock race.

Alexander Djordjevic, 37, died Saturday while competing in the Speed by Spectre 341 Challenge near Virginia City, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.

Djordjevic was wearing a seat belt and helmet. But Allen said his 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo was traveling at an "extremely high rate of speed" before it rolled down the embankment off state Highway 341, known as Geiger Grade, which connects Reno to Virginia City.

Also: Colts and stallions were fatally injured at nearly twice the rate as female racehorses, according to early findings from an industrywide database that also uncovered no immediate proof that synthetic tracks are safer than dirt ones.

The Boston Bruins gave a one-year contract extension to 42-year-old forward Mark Recchi, the NHL’s oldest active player under contract.

Recchi had 18 goals and 25 assists last season plus a team-leading six goals as well as four assists in 13 playoff games.

The United States improved to 6-0 in group play with a 10-1 victory over the Dominican Republic in the world softball championships in Caracas, Venezuela.

Kenny Perry will donate $2,000 for every birdie he makes at next month’s Greenbrier Classic (W.Va.) toward the families of the worst U.S. coal mine disaster in 40 years.

Twenty-nine men died in a blast at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine on April 5.