BRIEFLY : JARRETT WILL RACE WITH BROKEN BONES.

When the green flag waves today to start the UAW-GM 500, Dale Jarrett will try his best to ignore fractures to a rib and leg as he writes the latest chapter in a storybook season.

``If I'm on my feet a lot it starts to swell up,'' Jarrett said of the right leg he broke Friday when he hit the wall at Pocono International Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. ``The rib hurts only if I stretch or reach for something.''

Jarrett has been reaching for something all season, and for the most part finding it. His second Daytona 500 victory and a triumph in the Coca-Cola 600 have put him in position to win $1 million further down the road.

But those challenges could pale in comparison to what he must do today if he hopes to win for the third time this season. The problem is, Jarrett has no idea what that is.

``Sitting in one position not knowing how my leg's going to react until we get into it is what concerns me,'' he said Saturday before qualifying his Ford 28th for the $1.2 million race. ``This is a tough race track. It's hard on you physically when you're right. When you're not . . .''

Mike Wallace may be called upon for replacement duty. He won the Syracuse Grand Prix 400k and has offered to replace Jarrett if necessary.

Mario Andretti's chance of winning the Le Mans 24 Hours virtually ended after electrical problems knocked his car out of action for an hour in France.

Several Porsches battled for the early lead after eight hours of the race.

His Courage-Porsche, in which he's sharing driving duties with Jan Lammers and Derek Warwick, was in seventh place, about three minutes behind, when trouble hit. Just before three hours into the race the car, with Lammers driving, stopped on the circuit, near the pit entrance. The team repaired the damage to the ignition unit but lost 17 laps, or some 143 miles, and the car slipped to 44th place. It climbed to 37th at the eight-hour mark.

Cory McClenathan, Chuck Etchells, Chuck Harris and Dave Schultz won in the rain-delayed finals of the NHRA Pontiac Excitement Nationals at National Trail Raceway in Hebron, Ohio.

McClenathan won in top fuel, Etchells in funny car, Harris in pro stock and Schultz in pro stock motorcycle. Eliminations were postponed from June 9 because of rain.

Damon Hill's fast lap late in qualifying knocked Williams-Renault teammate Jacques Villeneuve off the pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.

Canadian Patrick Carpentier led from the start to win the Player's-Toyota Atlantic Championship race at the Grand Prix Molson du Canada in Montreal.

FOOTBALL Police alleged in an affidavit that the wife of former Dallas Cowboys punter Colin Ridgway paid an acquaintance to kill her husband, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

Ridgway, 54, was shot repeatedly in the Dallas enclave of University Park shortly after returning home from dinner with his wife, Joan, on May 13, 1993. The Ridgways, who had nearly divorced several times, arrived home around 10:30 p.m. in separate cars on the night of his death.

Ridgway, who played for the Cowboys in 1965, entered the house through the front door, while Mrs. Ridgway said she went up the back stairs of their duplex and found him shot.

Steve Pelluer threw three touchdown passes as Frankfurt beat host Amsterdam 28-20 to earn a berth in its second straight WLAF World Bowl.

The Galaxy (6-4) will play the Scottish Claymores for the league championship.

NHL Mike Modano, the Dallas Stars' leading scorer but soon to be a restricted free agent, has rejected a four-year, $12 million offer from the team.

Modano, who turned down the deal Friday, said he'll wait to see if the team improves itself in the offseason before he makes a long-term commitment. The 26-year-old center had 81 points on 36 goals and 45 assists in 78 games last season.

TENNIS Boris Becker beat Wayne Ferreira and Stefan Edberg defeated Thomas Muster in the semifinals of the Queen's grass-court tournament.

Becker and Edberg will meet for the 35th time in their careers, in the title match today in London.

Richey Reneberg advanced to the final of the Heineken Open with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over Jonas Bjoerkman of Sweden in their semifinal match in Rosmalen, Netherlands.

Reneberg, seeded No. 8, will play unseeded Frenchman Stephane Simian for the title in this Wimbledon warmup event. Simian continued his surprising run with another upset, beating Dutchman Paul Haarhuis 6-3, 6-4 in the other semifinal.

American Meredith McGrath upset No. 1 seed Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinals of the DFS Classic grass-court tournament in Birmingham, England.

McGrath, the No. 10 seed, will play second-seeded Nathalie Tauziat of France in the final.

Felix Mantilla trounced top seed and fellow Spaniard Carlos Moya 6-0, 6-4 in the semifinals of the Maia Open-Oporto Cup in Oporto, Portugal.

Hernan Gumy of Argentina, the No. 6 seed, won the other semifinal, beating Norway's Christian Ruud 7-6 (7-5) 6-2.

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PHOTO Dale Jarrett, right, talks with his brother, Glenn, F riday before crashing at Pocono International Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. Jarrett fractured a rib and his leg in the crash, but plans to race today.

Associated Press