Andy Taubman has enough responsibilities to keep him busy close to home, with his wife and two children in Weston and a busy accounting firm in Plantation. But the veteran CPA still finds time to ride his bicycle about 200 miles a week. ''It's always a round-trip,'' Taubman, 45, jokes. ''It's a lot. But there are no down sides. So the more I can, the more I ride.'' Andy Taubman gets Unbuttoned ...

The sounds of ringing cash registers will accompany the clicks and whirls of bicycle wheels rolling through downtown in the Twilight Criterium Saturday night. "Twilight is consistently our busiest day of the year because we're located at one of the corners of the race," said Jamie Locher, manager of The Globe bar at the corner of Lumpkin and Clayton streets.

MENASHA The Otto Grunski Family Festival will return July 14 for its 37th year but the Superweek bicycle races will not.

NEW YORK - Floyd Landis has claimed that electronically stored data from disputed dope tests conducted on his 2006 Tour de France stage 17 samples had been destroyed at a French laboratory.

Floyd Landis says data from dope tests conducted on his Tour de France stage 17 samples had been destroyed at a French lab.

The hate crimes jury conviction this month of three members of a white-supremacist group bent on starting a "race war" in the Salt Lake City area is just the latest effort by federal and state law enforcement to keep hate groups from establishing roots in Utah, white supremacist watchdogs say.

Greenvilleʼs George Hincapie will return to Europe next month and race in Spain for the green and white jersey in the Tour of Catalonia as part of his preparations for the Tour de France.

But the 37-year-old Daytona Beach resident is enthusiastic about her big race that day -- the kick-off of the 2007 Danskin Women's Triathlon Series. This year's quarter-mile swim, 9-mile bicycle race and 2-mile run are scheduled for the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World on May 13.

BEAUFORT -- Beaufort will host its first professional bicycle race this week, and city officials hope to see more sporting events here in the future. But don't expect to see any professional teams calling Beaufort home anytime soon.

Floyd Landis claimed Sunday that electronically stored data from disputed dope tests conducted on his 2006 Tour de France stage 17 samples had been destroyed at a French laboratory.