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2B – Daily News – Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Miller, Campbell build strong rapport Oakland Raiders ALAMEDA (AP) — With the Oakland Raiders in a 2-minute drill needing a touch- down at the end of practice, Jason Campbell got the offense started with two quick pass- es to tight end Zach Miller. Then with the Raiders near the goal line and only seconds remaining, Campbell found Miller again in the back of the end zone for a touchdown that gave the offense the win in the head-to-head drill. Campbell may be new with the Raiders this season but he has already figured out who his most reliable pass-catcher will be. ‘‘You need a touchdown in that situation. You saw who he went to,’’ coach Tom Cable said Monday. Campbell and Miller have quickly built a strong rapport in their few months together following the draft-day trade that brought the quarterback to Oakland to replace JaMarcus Russell as the starter for the Raiders. 49ers (Continued from page 1B) option,’’ Singletary. ‘‘The more we talked and the pos- sibility of that being able to work out, it was great. But the thing I wanted him to know about our team and about Frank: ’Frank Gore is the guy. Frank Gore is our running back. I don’t want to lie to you and have you think something different and when you get here it’s like wait a minute, I could have gone somewhere else.’’’ Westbrook has rushed for 5,995 yards and 37 touch- downs on 1,308 carries in eight NFL seasons all with the Eagles and also caught 426 passes for 3,790 yards and 29 TDs. Westbrook knows it will take him a little time to get acclimated to a new playbook. The Niners had a void to fill after Glen Coffee, Gore’s backup, abruptly announced he was leaving football after one NFL season. While Sin- gletary had high hopes for Coffee’s career, he is thrilled to get a veteran with West- brook’s resume. ‘‘It’s a very young offense. We’ve got a lot of tools, young guys,’’ Single- tary said. ‘‘I think he really adds a lot of value in terms of the leadership, the experi- ence, having been a part of good football teams. That adds a lot to our team on the offensive side of the ball.’’ Westbrook led the NFL with 2,104 yards from scrim- mage in 2007, but missed eight games last season with The two hit it off during offseason work- outs, and that chemistry has carried over to training camp, where Miller is often the player Campbell goes to most — especially in difficult situations. ‘‘We have good trust,’’ Miller said. ‘‘On certain routes he knows I’m going to win. We have a good feel for each other already on where I’m going to be. I try just to be consistent for him and make the plays for him so he keeps coming my way.’’ Campbell relied heavily on the tight end in Washington, where Chris Cooley was often his most trusted target. Cooley caught 83 passes in 2008 before being slowed by an injury last season. So it was only natural for him to start looking for Miller as soon as he got to Oak- land. Miller caught three of Campbell’s seven completions in the exhibition opener against Dallas. ‘‘The way the defense is played these days with teams doubling outside receivers, you have to have a guy who creates space on the inside,’’ Campbell said. ‘‘I think Zach is a pair of concussions and an ankle injury while scoring only two touchdowns. Balmer to Seahawks SANTA CLARA (AP) — Defensive lineman Kentwan Balmer was traded to the Seattle Seahawks on Monday after a mysterious absence from the San Francisco 49ers over the past week. The Seahawks will send an undisclosed 2011 draft pick to the Niners. Balmer left the 49ers last Monday for MLB West Division Texas American League WL Pct GB Angels 60 59 .504 8 A’s 67 50 .573 — 57 59 .491 9.5 Seattle 46 73 .387 22 East Division WL Pct GB New York 72 46 .610 — Tampa Bay 72 46 .610 — Boston 67 52 .563 5.5 Toronto 62 55 .530 9.5 Baltimore 42 77 .353 30.5 Central Division WL Pct GB Minnesota 68 50 .576 — Chicago 65 53 .551 3 Detroit 58 60 .492 10 Cleveland 49 69 .415 19 Kansas City 49 69 .415 19 ————————————————— Monday’s results Toronto at Oakland, late Baltimore 5, Seattle 4, 11 innings Detroit 3, New York 1 Tampa Bay 6, Texas 4 Today’s Games Toronto (Morrow 9-6) at Oakland (Braden 7-8),7:05 p.m.,CSNC Detroit (Verlander 13-7) at New York (Sabathia 15-5), 4:05 p.m. Seattle (French 1-3) at Baltimore (Millwood 2-12), 4:05 p.m. Los Angeles (Jer.Weaver 11-7) at Boston (C.Buchholz 13-5), 4:10 p.m. Texas (Tom.Hunter 9-1) at Tampa Bay (Garza 11-7), 4:10 p.m., MLBN Chicago (Danks 12-8) at Minnesota (S.Baker 10-9), 5:10 p.m. Cleveland (J.Gomez 3-0) at Kansas City (Greinke 7-11), 5:10 p.m. what coach Mike Singletary called personal reasons. Balmer, the team’s first- round draft pick in 2008 out of North Carolina, missed his fifth straight practice Friday before the team traveled to Indianapolis for its exhibition opener against the Colts. Balmer’s absences had been unexcused since Wednesday. Balmer met Wednesday night with Sin- gletary, but still was a no- show at training camp. ‘‘I moved on the last time MLB West Division National League WL Pct GB Padres 70 47 .598 — GIANTS 67 52 .563 4 Colorado 61 56 .521 9 Dodgers 60 59 .504 11 Arizona 47 72 .395 24 East Division WL Pct GB Atlanta 69 49 .585 — Philadelphia 66 51 .564 2.5 New York 59 59 .500 10 Florida 57 60 .487 11.5 Washington 51 67 .432 18 Central Division WL Pct GB Cincinnati 67 51 .568 — St. Louis 65 51 .560 1 Milwaukee 55 64 .462 12.5 Houston 51 66 .436 15.5 Chicago 50 69 .420 17.5 Pittsburgh 40 78 .339 27 ————————————————— Monday’s results Atlanta 4, Los Angeles 3 New York 3, Houston 1 Pittsburgh 7, Florida 1 San Diego 9, Chicago 5 Today’s Games San Francisco (Zito 8-6) at Phila. (Oswalt 7-13), 4:05 p.m.,CSNB Florida (Nolasco 13-8) at Pittsburgh (Duke 5-11), 4:05 p.m. Washington (Olsen 3-4) at Atlanta (Minor 0-0), 4:10 p.m. New York (J.Santana 10-6) at Houston (Figueroa 3-1), 5:05 p.m. San Diego (Garland 11-8) at Chicago (R.Wells 5-10), 5:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Bush 5-10) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 10-5), 5:15 p.m. Cincinnati (Arroyo 12-7) at Arizona (D.Hudson 3-0), 6:40 p.m. Colorado (J.Chacin 5-8) at Los Angeles (Kershaw 10-7), 7:10 p.m. a guy that creates that space for us and helps draw some of that attention away from those guys on the outside.’’ Miller has often been the person Raiders quarterbacks have looked for since he entered the league as a second-round draft pick out of Arizona State in 2007. Miller was tied for second on the team with 44 catches as a rookie, followed that up with a team-high 56 receptions his second year before increasing his total to 66 last year on a team that struggled mightily to move the ball consistently through the air. But Miller has only seven touchdowns out of his 166 career catches — the fewest of any player in the league in that span with at least 160 receptions. ‘‘You see other tight ends in the league scoring a lot of touchdowns and you get a lit- tle envious,’’ Miller said. ‘‘You want to be in there celebrating the touchdowns and I believe this year, finally, will be the year it comes.’’ The Raiders have made getting Miller the ball in the end zone a priority in training we talked. I was done,’’ Sin- gletary said. ‘‘When we talked about it, when he was- n’t here that morning, I was done. I was already on up the road. It’s nothing I really look back at. I’m thankful he’s North Division GOLDEN Golden League WL Pct. GB Calgary 19 7 .731 — Victoria 15 13 .536 5 OUTLAWS 12 11 .522 5.5 Edmonton 11 13 .458 7 St. George 7 14 .333 9.5 South Division Maui WL Pct. GB 14 3 .824 — Orange Co. 19 5 .792 -1.5 Yuma 11 14 .440 7 Tucson 12 18 .400 8.5 Tijuana 2 23 .080 16 ————————————————— Monday’s results Chico at Victoria, late St. George at Calgary, late Tucson at Edmonton, late Yuma at Maui, late Today’s Games Chico at Victoria, Noon Tucson at Edmonton, 6 p.m. St. George at Calgary, 6:05 p.m. Yuma at Maui, 9:35 p.m. camp as Campbell and the other quarter- backs have been looking his direction often during red-zone drills. Cable said the team is trying to do differ- ent things to create positive matchups for Miller near the goal line, and that’s just what he had at the end of Monday’s practice when he used his size advantage to make a leaping catch over safety Tyvon Branch. ‘‘There’s more emphasis on getting matchups down there and just working it,’’ Miller said. ‘‘A lot of it has to do with the fact that we didn’t have a lot of red zone opportunities last year. We didn’t put togeth- er enough drives to get down there. With that comes more plays down there.’’ Notes: WRs Chaz Schilens (foot) and Jacoby Ford (quadriceps) sat out the morning practice but were set to practice in the afternoon. ... CB Chris Johnson did not finish practice because of a tight hamstring. ... Cable said he hopes to have an update on the status of DE Jay Richardson (knee) on Tuesday. with another team and hope- fully he’s happy. Whenever I have a player like that, I’ll always miss that player in that capacity because I think he’s a NFL Preseason Monday’s result N.Y. Giants 31, N.Y. Jets 16 fine young man. But obvious- ly there are some things he needed to express and deal with. I’m happy for him.’’ GOLF World Golf Ranking 1.Tiger Woods USA 9.57 2. Phil Mickelson USA 9.08 3.Lee Westwood ENG 8.87 4. Steve Stricker USA 7.37 5. Martin Kaymer GER 6.70 6. Jim Furyk TENNIS ATP Money Leaders 1. Rafael Nadal 2.Roger Federer 3. Andy Murray 4. Robin Soderling 5.Tomas Berdych 6.Novak Djokovic 7. Andy Roddick 8.Fernando Verdasco 9. Jurgen Melzer 10.David Ferrer 1. Serena Williams 2.Venus Williams $5,622,538 $3,109,135 $2,201,307 $1,953,563 $1,814,216 $1,624,222 $1,436,013 $1,377,094 $1,277,657 $1,258,467 WTAMoney Leaders $4,266,011 $2,223,556 3.Francesca Schiavone $1,844,171 4. Jelena Jankovic 5. Sam Stosur 6. Justine Henin 7. Kim Clijsters 8.Vera Zvonareva 9. Aravane Rezai WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE WL Pct GB Indiana 21 10 .677 — New York 19 11 .6331 1/2 Washington 19 12 .613 2 Atlanta 19 13 .5942 1/2 Connecticut 15 16 .484 6 Chicago 13 18 .419 8 WESTERN CONFERENCE WL Pct GB z-Seattle 25 6 .806 — Phoenix 14 17 .452 11 Sparks 12 19 .387 13 Minnesota 12 19 .387 13 San Antonio 12 19 .387 13 Tulsa 5 26 .161 20 z-clinched conference ————————————————— Tuesday’s games Chicago at Atlanta, 4 p.m., NBATV Indiana at New York, 4:30 p.m. Tulsa at Connecticut, 4:30 p.m. Washington at San Antonio, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Seattle, 7 p.m. Phoenix at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m., NBATV 10. Caroline Wozniacki$1,015,802 $1,619,708 $1,551,795 $1,401,960 $1,382,348 $1,279,833 $1,170,286 NASCAR Sprint Cup Points Leaders 1.Kevin Harvick 2. Jeff Gordon 3.Denny Hamlin 4.Tony Stewart 3,400 3,107 3,047 3,020 MLS WESTERN CONFERENCE WL T Pts GF GA Galaxy 13 3 4 43 32 13 Salt Lake 11 4 6 39 36 16 FC Dallas 8 2 9 33 27 17 Seattle 8 8 5 29 23 25 Colorado 7 5 7 28 21 18 QUAKES 76 5 26 21 20 Houston 5 10 5 20 23 30 Chivas USA 5 10 4 19 22 25 EASTERN CONFERENCE WL T Pts GF GA Columbus 11 5 4 37 28 19 New York 9 7 4 31 21 22 Toronto FC 7 7 5 26 21 21 Chicago 5 5 6 21 21 21 New England 6 9 3 21 18 27 Kansas City 5 9 5 20 15 22 Philadelphia 4 10 5 17 23 34 D.C. 5. Jimmie Johnson 3,014 6. Carl Edwards 7. Jeff Burton 8.Kyle Busch 9. Matt Kenseth 10.Kurt Busch 11. Greg Biffle 12. Clint Bowyer 13. Mark Martin 2,629 2,986 2,986 2,975 2,961 2,935 2,913 2,755 2,720 14.Ryan Newman 2,652 15. Jamie McMurray 2,650 16. Kasey Kahne 17. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2,626 18.David Reutimann, 2,590 19. Juan Pablo Montoya 2,582 20. Martin Truex Jr. 2,548 21. Joey Logano 22. A J Allmendinger 2,499 23.Paul Menard 24.David Ragan 2,283 25. Brad Keselowski 2,203 26. Marcos Ambrose 2,173 27. Scott Speed 28.Sam Hornish Jr. 2,091 29. Elliott Sadler 30. Regan Smith 31.Bobby Labonte 32.Travis Kvapil 2,133 2,079 1,924 1,738 1,621 3 14 3 12 13 35 NOTE:Three points for victory, one point for tie. ————————————————— 33.Robby Gordon 1,493 34.David Gilliland 35.Kevin Conway 36. Brian Vickers 37.Joe Nemechek 38.Max Papis 39.David Stremme 40. Mike Bliss 41. Bill Elliott WPS Women’s Professional Soccer WL T Pts GF GA x-Gold Pride 12 3 4 40 30 14 Philadelphia 10 6 4 34 35 27 Boston 8 6 5 29 29 21 Washington 5 8 7 22 27 30 Sky Blue FC 6 9 4 22 17 28 Chicago 5 9 6 21 15 21 Atlanta ————————————————— 4 10 5 17 15 28 NOTE:Three points for victory, one point for tie. x- clinched playoff berth 42.Dave Blaney 43. Casey Mears 1,470 1,439 1,158 934 907 825 799 706 699 654 44. Reed Sorenson 645 45. Michael McDowell 616 46. J.J.Yeley 47. Boris Said 48.Todd Bodine 235 545 448 273 49. Robert Richardson Jr.249 50. Landon Cassill Upcoming Schedule Aug. 21 — Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. Sep. 5 — Emory Healthcare 500, Hamp- ton, Ga. Sep. 11 — Air Guard 400, Richmond, Va. Sep.19 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H. 2,527 2,399 7. Rory McIlroy NIR 5.98 8. Ernie Els USA 6.69 SAF 5.64 9.Paul Casey ENG 5.60 10. Luke Donald ENG 5.32 11. Ian Poulter ENG 5.03 12. Hunter Mahan USA 4.84 13. Graeme McDowellNIR 14. Anthony Kim USA 4.61 15. Zach Johnson USA 4.44 16. Retief Goosen SAF 4.34 17. Robert Allenby AUS 4.18 18.Padraig Harrington lRL 19. Louis Oosthuizen SAF 20. Sean O’Hair USA 3.98 4.82 4.16 4.11 Tehama County’s Personal/Professional Service Directory Bankruptcy Attorney Local Bankruptcy Attorney Jocelyn C. 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