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Friday Boys Hoops Final —Mercy v. Paradise Adventist, 2:30 p.m. at Chico State University, webcast on KBCsports.com Baseball — Red Bluff at Central Valley Pre-Season Classic Soccer — Red Bluff at Spring Soccer Classic at Redding Wrestling — CIF State Championships in Bakersfield NBA— Warriors at Celtics, 4:30 p.m., CSNB These kids are all right Last year was the inception of the Tehama County Sports Oscars. A fun way to highlight some local athletes playing into the theme of the Oscars. There’s no actual awards here, just bragging rights for mom and dad to post onto their social network. One down side is these fake awards don’t align perfectly with the school year, so the time frame for eligibility this year is Spring Sports 2010 through the most recent fall and winter seasons. Now, I don’t want to spend 127 hours on the background, so just remember these are for fun and let’s turn our attention to the fieldturf carpet as our young male and female athletes are making their way into the auditorium. In an effort to appeal to a younger demographic, the talking baby from those investment commer- cials will be hosting this year’s show. Up first — Best Actor in a Supporting Role Last year this award was won by Cameron Nye for his role in Corning Cardinals football. Let’s look at this year’s nominees: Sean Conrad, for Los Molinos basketball; Taylor Hickson for Red Bluff track; Ryan Holland, for Corning football; Derek Jones, for Red Bluff base- ball and Jeremie Jones for Mercy basketball. And the award goes to... Derek Jones, Red Bluff baseball Rich Greene The Spartans second baseman supported his team by posting an incredible .593 on base percent- age from the lead off position. Over to the ladies and an award won last year by Victoria Owens for Corning tennis — Best Actress in a Supporting Role The nominees: Callie Carruth, Los Molinos vol- leyball; Elle Davis, Corning tennis; Haley Harris, Red Bluff softball; Maggie Keller, Mercy basketball and The Quirke Twins, Los Molinos volleyball And the award goes to... The Quirke Twins, Los Molinos volleyball Hey two is better than one and I assume they won’t mind sharing this award together. The Twins helped the Lady Bulldogs to the most wins (34) in school history. Best Actor in a Leading Role Last year’s leading man was Dillon Reid for Red Bluff wrestling. Wouldn’t you know it just like Jeff Bridges, he’s a nominee against this year. Joining Reid as nominees are: Daniel Frantz, Red Bluff golf; Cody Gappa, Red Bluff baseball; Mitchell Lopez, Mercy football and Tyler McIntyre, Corning football The judges loved the fighter spirit in all of them, but the winner is... Tyler McIntyre, Corning football The senior had 1,128 rushing yards, 99 tackles and 21 total touchdowns. No black swans in this next category. Our lovely ladies hope to follow in Red Bluff volleyball’s Jak- lyn Wheeler’s footsteps. Best Actress in a Leading Role The nominees: Brittney Garrett, Corning soft- ball; Emily McEnaney, Red Bluff softball; Victoria Owens, Corning tennis; Carolyna Salazar, Los Molinos track and Kiersten Seaman, Los Molinos volleyball And the winner is... Emily McEnaney, Red Bluff softball McEnaney led the Lady Spartans to a second consecutive section title, batting .407 with six homers and 20 RBI and also playing great defense at shortstop along the way. Of course our next category might be considered the winter’s bone, I mean backbone of all these per- formances. Best Director Once again Steve Shellabarger has been nomi- nated for Mercy basketball. The other nominees are: Joe Gallaty, Red Bluff baseball; J Howell, Red Bluff softball; Chas Konopka, Los Molinos volley- ball and Paul Vietti, Mercy football. And the award goes to... J Howell, Red Bluff softball No king’s speech by this humble coach so we’ll do it for him as managing so much talent isn’t always easy. Howell had faith in freshmen and bal- anced the egos of an All-Star studded lineup. And finally a category with heartbreakers and thrillers, tears and joy. These 10 nominees remind- ed us why sports are better than the movies. Best Motion Picture The nominees: The Cardinals show true grit, but fall to Pleasant Valley 14-6 in the first round of the football play- offs; Red Bluff football snaps their losing streak behind a trick play at Oroville 27-7; the Spartans golf team wins their first division title in decades; Mercy football returns with a celebratory 55-38 win over Champion Christian; Red Bluff baseball loses to Pleasant Valley 7-6 in extra innings with the EAL crown on the line; every Dillon Reid-Calvin Meis- ter bout; in a rematch of the section championship Maxwell beats Mercy 83-82 in double overtime; Los Molinos sweeps rival Portola in three games in volleyball; the Lady Spartans knock off Chico 2-1 in extra innings to claim back-to-back softball titles and Corning winning back-to-back boys soccer titles with a 2-0 win over West Valley. And the winner is... Just like last year — all of us. Daily News Sports Editor Rich Greene just couldn’t work Toy Story 3 into this column no matter how hard he tried. I mean look at what I had to do with Winter’s Bone. You can reach him at sports@redbluffdailynews.com. Courtesy photo The Sacred Heart A Team boys pose with their championship trophy (from top left): Dave Gamboa, Francesco Addonizio, Adil Syed, Bryce MacLachlan, Alex Espinosa, Gerry Magana, mascot Nash Riberal-Norton, Ryan Gamboa, Chris Gray and William Gentry. JR. HIGH Sacred Heart Parish School recently held its 37th Annual Round Robin “A” Tournament for fifth through eighth grade girls and boys. Reeds Creek grabbed first place in the girls division followed by Sacred Heart and Gerber. In the boys division, hosts Sacred Heart won the tournament by hold- NFL WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s favorite sport is still in business — for another day. The NFL and the play- ers’ union decided Thursday to keep the current collective bargaining agreement in place for an additional 24 hours so that negotiations can continue. ‘‘The parties have agreed to a one-day extension,’’ federal mediator George Cohen said in a one-sen- tence statement after the sides met with him for about eight hours. The CBA was set to expire at midnight, which would likely have prompted the first work stoppage since 1987 for a league that rakes in $9 bil- lion a year. ‘‘For all our fans who dig our game, we appreciate your patience as we work through this,’’ union execu- tive director DeMaurice Smith said as he emerged from the talks. ‘‘We are going to keep working. We want to play football.’’ Said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell as he left: ‘‘We are working as hard as we can.’’ Allowing the CBA to expire could put the two sides on the road to a year without football, even though opening kickoff of the 2011 season is still six ing off Lassen View and Gerber fin- ished third. All-Tournament teams and Most Valuable Players were named for the boys and girls tournaments. The boys MVP was Adil Syed of Sacred Heart. The All-Tournament team con- sisted of Vicente Alvarado (Lassen View), Dale Danis (Reeds Creek), Bryce MacLachlan (Sacred Heart), months away. The labor unrest comes as the NFL is at the height of its populari- ty, breaking records for TV ratings: This year’s Super Bowl was the most-watched program in U.S. history. If the CBA expires, the owners could lock out the players, and the union could decertify to try and prevent that through the courts — something the NFLPA did in 1989. It formed again in 1993. NFL lead negotiator Jeff Pash said the sides had ‘‘good discussions and exchanges,’’ and ‘‘we’re going to be back here (Fri- day) morning.’’ A person with knowl- edge of the talks said the 24- hour extension was an opportunity to decide whether there would be a willingness to extend nego- tiations further. The person, who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because the talks were sup- posed to remain confiden- tial, said the sides were apart on economics, but have agreed on other topics. The person would not say what the two sides do agree on. Another person familiar with the negotiations said the two sides were not expected to resume face-to- face bargaining on Friday. Instead they’ll meet sepa- rately with Cohen to hash out whether to prolong the extension — and if so, for how many days. Oscar Rodriguez (Gerber) and Dom Tating (Lassen View) The girls MVP was Reeds Creek’s AShley Exum. The All-Tournament team con- sisted of Abby Brown (Gerber), Cheyenne Johnson (Sacred Heart), Michelle Leuch (American Christ- ian Academy), Brittany Manner (Reeds Creek) and Peyton McKer- ras (Sacred Heart). NFL, union agree to 24-hour deadline extension Washington Redskins player representative Vonnie Holliday cautioned that the two sides are ‘‘still apart’’ on a pact to replace the current CBA. ‘‘I don’t see how we can be that close right now unless somebody is going to pull a rabbit out of the hat,’’ he said. ‘‘I just don’t see it.’’ While the league and players’ union met for a 10th day with Cohen, even President Barack Obama weighed in when asked if he would intervene in the dis- pute. ‘‘I’m a big football fan,’’ Obama said, ‘‘but I also think that for an industry that’s making $9 billion a year in revenue, they can figure out how to divide it up in a sensible way and be true to their fans, who are the ones who obviously allow for all the money that they’re making. So my expectation and hope is that they will resolve it without me inter- vening, because it turns out I’ve got a lot of other stuff to do.’’ Besides Goodell, also on hand for the NFL were Pash, outside counsel Bob Batterman, New York Giants owner John Mara, Green Bay Packers presi- dent Mark Murphy, Wash- ington Redskins general manager Bruce Allen and several other league execu- tives. Mara and Murphy are members of the league’s labor committee, which has the authority to call for a lockout if a new agreement isn’t reached. ‘‘We’ll stay at it as long as it takes,’’ Pash said as the day began. They’ll be staying at least into Friday. The biggest sticking point all along has been how to divide the league’s revenues, including what cut team owners should get up front to help cover certain costs, such as stadium construction. Under the old deal, owners received about $1 billion off the top. They entered these negotiations seeking to add another $1 billion to that. Among the other signifi- cant topics: a rookie wage scale; the owners’ push to expand the regular season from 16 games to 18 while reducing the preseason by two games; and benefits for retired players. Since the 1987 players’ strike that shortened the sea- son to 15 games — with three of those games featur- ing nonunion replacement players — there has been labor peace in the NFL. The foundation of the current CBA was reached in 1993 by then-Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and union chief Gene Upshaw. It has been extended five times as rev- enues soared, the league expanded to 32 profitable teams, and new stadiums were built across America to house them. Sports 1B State title paths set Friday March 4, 2011 WRESTLING 2011 CIFState Championships The paths for Red Bluff’s Dillon Reid and Corning’s Calvin Meister and Matt Boles are set and their journey begins today. The 2011 CIF State Wrestling Championships begins today in Bak- ersfield and concluding on Saturday. Reid and Meister, both in the 160- pound division, drew first round byes, while Boles drew a very difficult oppo- nent in his 130-pound bracket. Reid, who placed last year at the state competition, is ranked No. 4 by the California Wrestler in his weight class. He received a favorable draw and provided he wins out, wouldn’t have to square up against a higher rated wrestler until the semis when he could meet Oak Ridge’s Vince Waldhauser, ranked No. 2 in the state. Reid will open against the winner of 36th ranked Eric Davila (Firebaugh) and 15th ranked Kalen Gans (Palo Alta). No. 8 ranked Adrian Salas would be next. Fortunately for Reid, No. 1 ranked Bryce Hammond (Bakersfield) and No. 3 ranked Jim Wilson (McNair) are on the other side of the bracket. That’s the side of the bracket, Meis- ter is on. Meister, ranked No. 28 in the state, will face the winner of Andrew Warth (Stockdale) against Johnny Gonzalez (Santa Teresa). Neither wrestler is ranked. However Hammond could be looming for Meister in his third match. Corning’s other wrestler, Boles drew No. 3 ranked Alex Anunciation (Marina) in his opener. Boles comes into the tournament ranked No. 39 in his weight class. BOYS HOOPS Corning 53 Foothill 73 The Cardinals lost 73-53 at Foothill, Wednesday night, in a Division III boys basketball semifinal game. Corn- ing finished their season at 20-8. Sacred Hearts nabs trophy