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Tuesday NBA 4 p.m. TNT — New York at Boston 6:30 p.m. TNT — Portland at Dallas NHL 5 p.m. VERSUS — Vancouver at Chicago 7:30 p.m.VERSUS — San Jose at Los Angeles Sports 1B Tuesday April 19, 2011 Lincecum, Giants overpower Rockies 8-1 DENVER (AP) — Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants sure weren’t complaining about the humidor Monday night. Lincecum, the two-time Cy Young Award winner who led the Giants to the World Series title six months ago, took a no- hitter into the seventh inning at Coors Field and San Francisco routed the Colorado Rockies 8- 1. Spotted an early eight-run cushion thanks to homers by Pat Burrell, Nate Schierholtz and Freddy Sanchez, Lincecum cruised through Colorado’s line- up, dominating baseball’s best team over the season’s first 2 1/2 weeks until Carlos Gonzalez broke up his no-hit bid with a clean single in the seventh. Lincecum (2-1) allowed one run and three hits over 7 2-3 spectacular innings. He walked three, struck out 10 and allowed just four balls out of the infield, none in the first six innings. This was the first visit to Coors Field by the Giants since they made a stink about the humidor protocol prior to a key series last September — before the Rockies faded from the play- off race and the Giants went on to win their first championship since moving West in 1958. The Rockies entered the night with a 12-3 mark and a four- game lead over San Francisco in the NL West, but right-hander Esmil Rogers (2-1) allowed eight runs and six hits over three innings in just the second loss by a Rockies starter this season. Lincecum was shooting for the 14th no-hitter in franchise history and the first since Jonathan Sanchez handcuffed the San Diego Padres on July 10, 2009, which snapped a 32-year Giants drought. The only no-hitter at Coors Field was thrown by Hideo Nomo of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sept. 17, 1996. With one out in the seventh, Gonzalez grounded a sharp sin- gle to right for the first hit off Lincecum, who had benefited from some nice defensive plays by second baseman Freddy Sanchez, including a diving stop of Gonzalez’s hard grounder in the first. Lincecum didn’t allow a ball to the outfield until Jonathan Herrera led off the seventh with a fly to deep right. By then, the ball wasn’t carrying and it set- tled into Schierholtz’s glove. Todd Helton’s double down See GIANTS, page 2B Mote shares Red Bluff title, breaks record Reported by the PRCA Bobby Mote’s 84- point ride on Growney Brothers’ Beaver Fever April 17 allowed him to tie fellow Oregonian Steven Peebles for the Red Bluff Round-Up title and break the PRCA record for career earnings by a bareback rider. The $4,852 Mote banked in this Wrangler Million Dollar Tour event, presented by Justin Boots, boosted the four- time world champion’s career total to $1,877,065 and moved him past his friend and mentor Clint Corey into 19th on the career earnings list. “I didn’t know I’d passed him,” Mote said. “That’s something I’m pretty proud of, because there’s no better bareback rider than Clint Corey.” And there are very few people whom he holds in higher regard. When he was just getting started more than a decade ago, and winning “a little bit here and there,” Mote fig- ured if he was ever going to pull it all together and become a champion, he had to learn from the best. Corey, who won the 1991 world champi- onship and qualified for the National Finals Rodeo 18 times – one shy of Bruce Ford’s record – was that guy for Mote. “I had no idea how to win or even how to rodeo,” Mote said. “I went to a couple of Clint’s schools early, which is how I got to know him in the first place. Early in my career, I had traveled with a few different guys, but I was- n’t having any success. What I started to see in rodeo is that the winners were all hanging out together and traveling together. So I called him and asked if I could trav- el with him. “It was a pretty bold thing to do at the time. I dang sure wasn’t making any waves in the sport. That was really my first big break. I learned so much about bareback rid- ing – and about winning – just by watching and imi- tating everything Clint did. I got so much out of onds and came through with a solid 8.5 second run in the second round to win the two-head average at 15.9 seconds. “Watching all those good times before me helped get me more moti- vated to do well,” Shioza- wa said. “I didn’t have as good a calf as this morn- ing, but I had a game plan and stuck with it. In my second good chance, I made the toss and every- thing worked out as hoped.” The other champions crowned at the Tehama District Fairground were steer wrestler Jake Rine- hart (8.4 seconds on two head), team ropers Clay Tryan and Travis Graves (11.0 seconds on two head), bull rider Logan Knibbe (85 points) and barrel racer Christina Richman (35.0 seconds on two runs). April 22, Clovis Daily News photos by Chip Thompson just sitting in the truck talking with him during those all-night drives to the next rodeo.” After first joking that he might have to “crack back out” to get his record back, Corey said he is happy to see the mark fall because it reflects the progress of the sport. “The money guys can win continues to get bet- ter,” Corey said, “and that’s a great thing for ProRodeo and the contes- tants. I was lucky to have been able to compete for as long as I did and win as much as I did. I wasn’t forced to retire because of injuries. Rodeo was good to me when I was going. I was making money then, and it’s just gotten bet- ter.” It seemed only right that Mote went past Corey with a win at a major rodeo and that he had to do it under pres- sure. With Peebles holding the lead going into the final day of the rodeo, Mote knew what was required to win a big check, and just three months removed from surgery to repair a sports hernia, he was up to the challenge on the final ride of competition. “Beaver Fever is just a really good Growney horse,” Mote said. “I’d never had a chance to get on her before, but when I saw the draw, I knew I’d have an opportunity to win a check. She just jumped and kicked straight down the arena. “I’ve seen them win first on her at a lot of rodeos, so I didn’t have to do any research when I saw the draw.” Because he competed in the team roping, Mote was also the Red Bluff all-around champion, edging Cody DeMoss and Trevor Brazile. DeMoss, like Mote, drew a horse he had never been on, the Growney- owned Cow Camp, and he delivered a hard enough ride for DeMoss to score 83 points and win the saddle bronc rid- ing title. “I saw (Cow Camp) last week, and it looked like a pretty good buck- ing horse,” DeMoss told the Redding Record- Searchlight. “It was real good. The horse went straight across the floor Miami Heat roll to 2-0 lead over 76ers, 94-73 MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James outscored Philadelphia’s entire starting five in the first half by himself. So did Chris Bosh. So did Dwyane Wade. And that pretty much tells the tale of a night the 76ers would rather forget. No comeback required for the Miami Heat this time. They went wire-to-wire on the lead, and moved two wins from advancing to the Eastern Con- ference semifinals. James scored 29 points, Bosh had his second straight double-double with 21 points and 11 rebounds, and Miami took a 2-0 series lead with a 94- 73 victory over the abysmally shooting 76ers — who man- aged their second-lowest play- off scoring total in the last 56 years — on Monday night. ‘‘It was a really complete game for us at both ends of the floor,’’ James said. Showing no signs of the migraine that he battled Sun- day, Wade scored 14 points for Miami, now 17-3 in its last 20 games and halfway to winning its first playoff series since the 2006 NBA finals. ‘‘I’m feeling a lot better,’’ said Wade, who wasn’t able to eat Sunday and was very low- energy at times before Mon- day’s game. ‘‘I lost a lot of weight tonight ... but I think I did my job, to come out there and help my team get a win.’’ Thaddeus Young scored 18 points and Evan Turner added 15 for the 76ers, whose starters were outscored 76-29 by the Heat’s first-string. Philadelphia shot 34 percent for the game, and after getting 42 points in the paint in Game 1, were held to 24 in that department Mon- day. ‘‘We’ve had good defensive performances,’’ Bosh said, ‘‘but I think today was our best of the season.’’ The 76ers find themselves needing to buck some serious history. Miami has never lost a series after winning the first two games (6-0), and the Philadelphia franchise is win- less in 16 tries after falling into an 0-2 postseason hole. And then there’s this — only 14 teams have won after losing the first two games of a best-of- seven NBA series. ‘‘If they’re playing great, they’re a better team,’’ Sixers coach Doug Collins said. ‘‘OK? If they’re playing on top of their game, they’re a better team. I mean, they won 58, we won 41. That doesn’t mean that we aren’t going to play and com- pete and fight. But when they come out tonight and defend the way they did ... it’s going to be very difficult for us to beat them.’’ It was Philadelphia’s second- lowest playoff point total since 1955, the only exception com- ing in a 79-68 loss to Orlando in 1999. And the 76ers won that series. Philadelphia made 15 of its first 24 shots in Game 1, a 63 percent clip. Since then: 47 of 140, 34 percent. ‘‘You’ve got to give them credit,’’ said Sixers guard Andre Iguodala, who has nine points on 4-for-15 shooting in the series. Wade played 34 minutes, despite spending Sunday bedridden in a darkened room fighting off a migraine that he likened to a ‘‘nightmare.’’ He had no outward ill effects, shooting 4 for 11 with six rebounds. and was bucking. He was as good as you could get.” Matt Shiozawa of Chubbuck, Idaho, won the first round of the tie- down roping in 7.4 sec- Rodeo April 23, Auburn Wild West Stampede April 23, Springville Sierra Rodeo Next Up