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Minnesota skier John Bauer won his sixth straight national cross-country title in Bend, Ore., finishing the 10k classical-technique race in 26 minutes, 48.4 seconds. Two-time Olympian Nina Kemppel of Anchorage won the women’s 5k race in 18:01… . Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Joe Gilliam has been placed on six months’ probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor drug charge. A Nashville policeman found Gilliam on Sunday holding a pipe with a rock of crack cocaine in it. … Italian skiing star Alberto Tomba halted training after feeling pain in his right wrist, which he injured last October. Tomba was training at Corno alle Scale, Italy, when he left the slopes for an exam. … Veronica Brenner of Canada won a women’s World Cup freestyle aerials event in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Michele Rohrbach of Switzerland was second and Caroline Olivier of Canada was third. Nikki Stone of Westborough, Mass., topped the American contingent by placing sixth.