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1B Sports Tehama Tracker Tuesday's results Wednesday July 24, 2013 MLB SUN OAKS AQUATICS RACING Athletics LATE Houston Cincinnati LATE Giants Today's games MLB Athletics Houston CSNC 11:10 a.m. OAK — Griffin HOU — Norris Cincinnati Giants CSNB 7:15 p.m. CIN — Leake SF — Gaudin On the tube AUTO RACING 4 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, pole qualifying for Mudsummer Classic, at Rossburg, Ohio 6:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, Mudsummer Classic, at Rossburg, Ohio MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 4 p.m. ESPN — Tampa Bay at Boston Warriors sign free agent Jermaine O'Neal OAKLAND (AP) — The Golden State Warriors have signed free agent center Jermaine O'Neal, who had reached agreement on a contract two weeks ago. The Warriors announced the deal for the six-time All-Star on Tuesday. Golden State is likely to use the 34-yearold O'Neal as a backup to Andrew Bogut. Festus Ezeli is working back from right knee surgery and is not expected to be ready to return for months. O'Neal played in 55 games with four starts last season for the Phoenix Suns, averaging 8.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.4 blocks in 18.7 minutes. The 6-foot-11 center is entering his 18th season in the NBA. Raiders add quarterback Tyler Wilson ALAMEDA (AP) — The Oakland Raiders have signed fourthround pick quarterback Tyler Wilson to a contract. General manager Reggie McKenzie announced the move Tuesday, three days before the first training camp practice in Napa. Oakland also waived linebacker Travis Goethel and defensive back Coye Francies. The Raiders still have two unsigned draft picks in firstround cornerback D.J. Hayden and secondround offensive lineman Menelik Watson. Wilson was selected 112th overall by the Raiders in April out of Arkansas. He completed 62 percent of his passes in 37 college games for 7,765 yards, 52 touchdowns and 26 interceptions. Wilson is competing with Matt Flynn and Terrelle Pryor for the starting job in Oakland. Follow us on Twitter for live game coverage, exclusive online articles and more. @TehamaSports SOAR beats heat at Junior Olympics Special to the DN This past weekend eight Sun Oaks Aquatics Racing swimmers from Red Bluff performed well at the Sierra Nevada Long Course Junior Olympics in Redding. Despite temperatures of over 109 degrees, many new best times were achieved. The competition was tough as over 800 of the best swimmers from 23 teams competed to see who was the fastest. The Junior Olympics has trials and finals, so only the top eight swimmers in each event get to return to the pool at night for finals. Sun Oaks Aquatics Racing placed 4th overall out of the 23 teams in attendance. Leading the way for Sun Oaks was 13-year-old Julia Brandt. In the 50meter Freestyle she was the lone 13 year old to make finals and finished 7th with a new "AAA" time of 29.25. Another extremely exciting swim for Brandt was anchoring the gold medal winning 400 Free Relay. Her fastest 100M Free time before the relay had been 1:04.91 "AA" time, however, she held off a Sierra Marlin swimmer and reached for gold with a 1:03.17. The relay team finished with a time of 4:13.70, which qualifies it for the Far Western AP photo Julia Brandt swims to a 7th-place finish and notched a new "AAA" time of 29.25 in the 50\-meter freestyle during the Sierra Nevada Long Course Junior Olympics in Redding over the weekend. Regional Championships in San Jose and also the Speedo Sectional Championships in Long Beach. Brandt just missed the finals in the 100 Fly, placing 10th with a "AA" time of 1:11.94. Her other results were 17th place in the 100 Free, 21st place in the 100 Breast, 22nd place in the 200 Breast, 30th place in the 100 Back and 32nd in the 200 IM. Brandt enjoyed much success on the other Sun Oaks Relay teams as well. In addition to the 1st place in the 400 Free relay, she also anchored two 3rd place relays — the 800 Free and the 200 Free. Brandt swam breaststroke on the 200 and 400 Medley relays, which both finished in 4th place. Jayne Brandt, 11, experienced how tough it is to be at the bottom of her age group. Despite being on the young side she finished 7th in the 100 Breaststroke with a time of 1:31.22. In the 50 Breast, Jayne learned the meaning of the phrase, "so close but oh so far" by missing finals by .01. She placed 9th with a time of 42.29. Eighth place was 42.28. In the 200 Breast, Brandt swam to an 11th place finish, again, just missing finals. Her other swims included 16th place-50 Fly, 20th place100 Back, 25th Place-50 Free, 29th place-100 Free. Brandt also helped the See SOAR, page 2B NASCAR MLB Kickin' up dirt after 42-year hiatus Players disgusted at doping By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Time to attach the mud flaps. NASCAR is set for an off-road detour through the dirt. The Truck Series is headed for the Eldora Speedway half-mile dirt track for a one-night only special designed to reconnect NASCAR with its early roots and give fans raised on asphalt and stock cars a taste of the wild races run in the dust. The last time one of NASCAR's top touring series competed on dirt was Sept. 30, 1970, when Richard Petty won a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (called the Grand National Division at that time) race at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. The dirt drought ends when the trucks race Wednesday night at Tony Stewart-owned Eldora in Rossburg, Ohio. Stewart, still a regular on the weeknight racing circuit, has naturally become a big booster of NASCAR's return to dirt. Most of the field drove their first Eldora laps at Tuesday's practice. ''It's a neat facility,'' Stewart said. ''It's well lit, it's a wide racetrack, it gives you a lot of options of where you can go and what you can do. I think it gives those guys an opportunity. The practice day on Tuesday should help a lot of those teams be able to get acclimated before they come back to the track on Wednesday.'' Eldora's grandstands are sold out for the 9:30 p.m. ET race, even as some of the series' biggest winners, like Kyle Busch, are sitting out. AP photo Driver Tony Stewart signs autographs after practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H., Saturday. Ryan Newman and Dave Blaney are the only Cup drivers in the field. The race will feature a handful of so-called ringers, such as Scott Bloomquist, a member of the National Dirt Track Hall of Fame with more than 500 victories in a lengthy career. The 49-year-old Bloomquist is set to make his NASCAR debut driving the No. 51 Toyota for Kyle Busch Motorsports. ''It's going to be something different I'm sure, but it's a race car and I've driven a lot of race cars,'' he said. ''Never a truck, but it's still a race car.'' The race also gets a twist on qualifying. There are five, eight-lap qualifying events and a 15-lap last-chance race to come up with the 30 competitors (regularly 36 in the series) who will start the 150-lap Mudsummer Classic. Because there is no pit road, the race is broken into three segments of 60, 50 and 40 laps. Trucks driver James Buescher raved about Eldora after he tested there. ''It was a lot more fun than I expected it to be,'' he said. ''It's definitely going to be interesting when we get 30 trucks on the track at the same time in tight quarters like that. It's going to be an actionpacked race. I just hope there's not too many cautions.'' It could happen. After all, the trucks weren't built to race on dirt, so some adjustments were needed. The Goodyear dirt tire has been widened from 10 to 11 inches to provide a larger contact patch with the track and give the trucks more grip. While the Eldora right-side tire will basically remain the same height as a NASCAR tire run on asphalt tracks, the leftside is 3 inches shorter (85.8 inches) to build in more stagger, which will help the trucks turn better. The trucks will be fitted for mesh shields and hood deflectors to hold off debris kicked up from the muck. The drivers who know how to get dirty are the easy favorites. Kyle Larson, pegged as NASCAR's next big star, is one of the few drivers with experience on the dirt oval. Larson is one of only two drivers to sweep the USAC Four Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway. Larson also won in the USAC Midgets in 2012. There's a reason this track was selected for him See DIRT, page 2B NEW YORK (AP) — Protective no more, baseball players are downright disgusted these days with doping. Now they are demanding even stiffer suspensions for those caught cheating. ''It's a new generation of athletes that are standing up,'' Travis Tygart, chief executive of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, said Tuesday. ''The culture's been flipped on its head.'' When Ryan Braun accepted a season-ending 65-game suspension Monday rather than fight Major League Baseball over evidence he used performance-enhancing drugs, fellow players appeared tired of those who cast shadows on the sport. ''They're lying to the fans,'' Los Angeles Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson said. ''They're lying to their teammates. They're lying to their GMs, their owners, and they're going to get caught.'' Skip Schumaker of the Los Angeles Dodgers said Braun, the 2011 NL MVP for the Milwaukee Brewers, let him down. ''Watching him talk right now makes me sick,'' Schumaker said. ''I have an autographed Braun jersey in my baseball room that I'll be taking down. I don't want my son identifying what I've worked so hard to get to and work so hard to have — I don't want him comparing Braun to me.'' Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who finished second to Braun See MLB, page 2B