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SPORTS www.qctimes.comsports gM QUAD-CITY TIMES I Monday. July 17, 2006 HORSE RACING ON TAP Home July Away Barbara's attitude 'remains positive' Mon.17 Tue.18 Wed. 19 Thu.20 Fri.21 Sat. 22 SWB5cranton 7:15 p.m. WFXN Wisconsin I Wisconsin I I 2 I if I 705 pm.

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7 pm. KROS KROS KROS KROS KROS "His vital signs are good and his attitude remains positive," Richardson in a statement released by the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center. "He is acceptably comfortable today, and his appetite remains excellent." Barbaro had another restful night, Richardson said Sunday, and assistant trainer Peter Brette emerged after a morning visit and said the colt "is in a good frame of mind." "He was bright," Brette added. "He sort of at least had a bit of sparkle in his eye." Brette, who exercised the colt daily for trainer Michael Matz, has been visiting Barbaro almost every day since the colt shattered his right hind leg a Detroit Detroit Texas Texas uraron 6:05 p.m. 12:05 p.m.

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9:10 pm. KGWB KGWB WKEI WRMJ WRMJ, WKEI WRMJ, WKEI KGWB, WKEI Vital signs good, assistant trainer still very worried KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) Barbaro spent another "comfortable" day in the intensive care unit at the George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals, and his veterinarian reports the Kentucky Derby winner's attitude "remains positive." There was no indication Barbara's condition had improved since 80 percent of his left rear hoof wall was removed Wednesday to combat the often-fatal disease laminitis. For the third straight day, though, Dr.

Dean Richardson said the colt's condition remained stable. Mil 4 Starting this week, Tour riders TOUR DE FRANCE tft 4, if Ticket Information Quad-City Steamwheeters: (563) 3244888 St. Louis Cardinals: (31 4) 345-9000 Chicago White Sox: (866) SOX-GAME Swing of the Quad-Cities: (563) 328-2000 Chicago Cubs: (773) 404-2827 Clinton LumberKings: (563 242-0727 TVRADIO TODAY Major League Baseball 6 p.m Atlanta at St. Louis; ESPN 6:05 p.m Atlanta at St. Louis Cardinals; ESPN, KGWB, Ch.

26, WKE1 1450 AM Midwest League Baseball 7:05 p.m Quad-Cities at Wisconsin; WKBF 1270 AM 6 p.m at Dayton; KROS 1340 AM Women's Softball 8 p.m World Cup, championship game, teams TBA, at Oklahoma City; ESPN2 SPORTS IN BRIEF U.S. Softball team triumphs again if A''" will have to face the grueling few yards after the start of the Preakness Stakes on May 20. "We're still very worried," Brette added, "but it's very good for me to go in and see him like this." Barbaro has casts on both rear limbs. The cast on the colt's right hind has been changed at least four times in the last two weeks. A smaller cast is on the left rear hoof, and the bandages protecting it were changed Saturday and are likely to be changed again in the coming days.

Barbaro has been listed in stable condition since Friday, the day after Richardson said the colt had laminitis "as bad as it gets" and termed his chance of survival poor. iiA-laa THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ascents of the Alps. much pressure on his Phonak team. So he relinquished it to Pereiro a couple of days before, letting the Illes Balears rival ride ahead and take the lead on Saturday. Landis is hoping that Illes Balears will try to keep Pereiro in the lead by racing up at the front of the pack where cyclists expend the most energy sparing the need for his Phonak teammates to do so.

Landis wants to keep his team of support riders as fresh as possible so they can help him up the climbs in the Alps. "We'd like to have some other teams with some motivation to ride, other than us," the Pennsylvania native said Sunday At some point before Paris, of course, Landis will need to get back the lead if it he is to be the successor to seven-time winner Lance Armstrong. And he is betting that Pereiro, when it really counts, won't be able to stop him. everybody has stepped up their tricks. It is going to be a really intense season.

Game on!" The 21-year-old Dhers, from Venezuela, earned his first BMX Park title with a run that was highlighted by a no-handed flair on the quarter pipe. "This is one of the best days of my life. I had a dream of coming to the United States and doing well, and it finally happened," Dhers said. "I set my mind to competing in the Dew Action Sporty Tour and it worked out." I 4f 1 vl; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Barbara's casts likely will be changed again in coming days. MIDWEST LEAGUE Rattlers bite back at Swing 11 hits but can't hold on to early lead GRAND CHUTE, Wis.

What started off well didn't end that way Sunday for the Swing of the Quad-Cities. The Swing scored four runs in the top half of the first inning of their Midwest League game at Wisconsin but watched the Timber Rattlers push three runs across in three straight innings to rally for a 16-7 win at Fox Cities Stadium. Quad-Cities managed 11 hits, including four straight to open the game. Shane Robinson extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a game-opening single, the start of a 4-for-5 day by the Swing leadoff hitter. Staff report REPORT LumberKings fall late DAYTON, Ohio For the second straight game, the Clin- I ton LumberKings couldn't make a late lead stick.

Dayton pushed single runs across in both the eighth and ninth innings Sunday to daim a 3-2 Midwest League win over the LumberKings in front ot a crowd of 8,751 at Fifth Third Field. Truan Mehl led Clinton with a pair of hits, while John Mayberry gave the LumberKings a 2-1 lead when he opened the sixth inning with a home run. Staff report MEYERS Continued from Page C3 help record the fifth no-hitter in the franchise's history, something he didn't realize until after his outing was over. Meyers told MLB.com that it was "kind of a shock" when another Sounds pitcher, Justin Lehr, congratulated him for helping keep the no-hitter going after his appearance concluded after the eighth inning. "I didn't even know.

I guess (not knowing) takes the pressure off," Meyers said. The circumstances were a little unusual. Carlos Villanueva was making his first start at the Triple-A level and was on a pitch count, limited to 90 pitches. That carried the Sounds through six innings, and Meyers took the mound to open the seventh. He struck out three of the six Redbirds he faced before closer Alec Zumwalt worked a 1-2-3 ninth inning.

Nashville catcher Chad Moeller was just settling in as well. He has been with the team for less than a week. "The pitchers were untouchable. I just met (Meyers) before the game," Moeller said. The three pitchers combined to retire the final 16 batters they faced.

Meyers, a former Black Hawk College pitcher, is in his sixth season of work at the Triple-A level. The 28-year-old was a 26th-round pick of the Cubs in the 1997 draft. Steve Battoson can be contacted at (563) 383-229(jLir sbattersonqctimes.cora Make or break lor Lanca THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jessica Mendoza homered and drove in four runs and Crystl Bustos and Tairia Flowers each added two-run shots, lifting the United States past Japan 11-0 Sunday at the World Cup of Softball. While both teams held back their aces, there was no holding back the U.S. offense.

Mendoza, who has a tournament-high 15 RBIs, started the scoring with a bloop single down the left-field line to score Natasha Watley Bustos then lined a screamer over the left field wall to give the US. a 3-0 lead. Watley added a two-run triple in the fourth, and Mendoza followed by slamming her third home run of the World Cup. Japanese fielders turned but didn't move as the ball caromed off the warning track in front of a wall 300 feet from home plate and hopped over. The teams will meet again today in the championship, a rematch of last year's final.

Swimming Olympian Lezak wins 50 free at Evans Jason Lezak won the men's 50-meter freestyle against a field of former Olympians in the Janet Evans Invitational. Lezak touched first in 22.51 seconds. The 30-year-old sprinter was fifth in the event at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He also won the 100 free. Lacey Nymeyer won the women's 50 free in 25.60.

Natalie Coughlin, winner of five medals at the Athens Games, won the women's 200 free in 1 minute, 58.20 seconds, to go with the 100 free she won Friday Fishing Brauer wins the Bassmaster Elite Denny Brauer won the Bassmaster Elite Series' Champion's Choice Tournament on Lake Champlain, Plattsburgh, N.Y., finishing the four-day event with a catch of 80 pounds, 3 ounces. "The older you get, the more you appreciate it," said Brauer, the 2006 Bassmaster Elite Series' Champion's Choice winner and 1998 Bassmaster Classic champion. The 57-year-old Brauer, from Camdenton, earned $102,000 with the win, raising his lifetime Bassmaster. winnings to more than $2 million. Water polo U.S.

women qualify for water polo finals Natalie Golda scored with 37 seconds remaining to help the United States beat Australia 12-11 in the women's ETNA World League water polo semifinals. The Americans went 5-0 in the semifinal round, joining Australia and Canada as qualifiers for the Super Finals. The Canadians beat Brazil 15-4. Ericka Lorenz of the United States was selected the tournament's MVP. Basketball Mourning coming back to Heat for next season Alonzo Mourning waited 13 years to win his first NBA championship.

Now, the Miami Heat center wants to see what defending a title is like. Mourning said that he intends to return to the Heat next season. The 36-year-old center had long insisted that his primary reason for playing last season was the lure of a championship, something the Heat won by beating the Dallas Mavericks in six games in the NBA Finals. Mourning has said repeatedly since then that the decision to either return or retire would be made in consultation with his family Mourning, who underwent a kidney transplant in December 2003, made the announcement at his annual Zo's Summer Groove charity gala. BLEACHERS weeK Riders head into the Alps after resting today GAP, France (AP) L'Alpe d'Huez, the Izoard and Galibier passes.

Hard climbs, legendary climbs, climbs that decide the Tour de France. One bad day, even, one bad hour, on those punishing ascents in the Alps next week could end U.S. rider Floyd Lan-dis' bid for the Tour title. After two weeks of racing and little separating Landis from the other top riders, the Tour is perfectly poised for a thrilling finale. Landis and the 155 other cyclists who have made it this far, surviving crashes, scorching heat, and 1,664 miles of racing, have all of today to rest their aching muscles, patch up scrapes and sores and focus on the 607 miles that remain to the EXTREME SPORTS finish line in Paris next Sunday.

Distance-wise, it might seem that most of the work is done. Think again. Tuesday brings the first of three make-or-break days in the Alps. And if those towering mountains don't sift out a winner, then the Tour could be decided in the last long time trial next Saturday, when the riders race alone against the clock. "Three big days in the Alps, one big time trial, anything can happen," said Landis' Dutch teammate, Koos Moerenhout.

After Sunday's 14th stage, won by Frenchman Pierrick Fedrigo, Landis still was where he says he wants to be: second overall, 1 minute and 29 seconds behind Oscar Pereiro of Spain. Landis figured that having the overall lead going into the rest day would have put too with two new tricks during his first run a Super Flip, consisting of a Backflip Superman, and a Super Indian Flip with a Backflip Superman Indian Air. Nate Adams of Glendale, was second at 96.17, and 2005 FMX Dew Cup winner Kenny Bartram of Stillwater, Mowed at 95.67. "I don't like to lose and I'm always going to put on a good show," Pastrana said. "I went into the Dew Action Sports Tour just for fun, but I've been really surprised Ifow much IN THE Super Flip, no-handed flair seal victory for BMX riders CONTACT US Sports desk Report a score: Call (563) 383-2285 or (800) 437-4648 between 6-1 1 p.m.

Letters: 500 E. 3rd Davenport, IA 52801 or sportsqctimes.com Staff writers Dearrel Bates: 383-2277, dbates qctimes.com Steve Batterson: 383-2290, sbattersonqctimes.com Craig DeVrieze: 333-2610, cdevrieze qctimes.com Jon Gremmels: 383-2294, jgremmelsqctimes.com Sean Moeller: 383-2288, smof.lerqctimes.com I Pastrana, Dhers win Dew Action Sports Tour events DENVER (AP) Travis Pastrana won the Freestyle Motocross competition and Daniel Dhers topped the BMX Park field Sunday in the final day of competition in the Dew Action Sports Tour's Right Guard Open at the Pepsi Center. The 22-year-old Pastrana, from Dayidsonville, scored a 96.83 md sealed his victory $4.