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Weekend SAT — Stanley Cup — Game 2, Bruins at Canucks, 5 p.m., NBC SAT—Soccer — United States vs Spain, 1:30 p.m., ESPN MLB—Rockies at Giants, Sat, 1 p.m., FOX; Sun, 1 p.m., CSNB French Open — Championships, 6 a.m., NBC SUN— NASCAR— STP 400, 9:30 a.m., FOX SUN— NBAFinals — Game 3, Heat at Mavericks, 5 p.m., ABC Sports 1B Cousins speaks out about Posey The event starts at 10 a.m. BASKETBALL Baseline Basketball, an AAU Summer Basketball Program is getting ready to tip off this season. The program is open to fifth through 10th grade boys and girls. The 8-week program will feature a 3-tournament guarantee. For more information call Keith Carlson at 736- 6018. BASKETBALL Dates have been set for this summer's Angie Weir Miller Fundamental Basketball Camps. The camps will take place at Lassen View School. • June 13-17 Girls-Boys 1st and 2nd grades, 9 a.m. to noon • June 13-17 Girls-Boys 3rd and 4th grades, 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. • June 20-24 Girls-Boys 5th and 6th grades, 9 a.m. to MCT file photo Marlins’ rookie Scott Cousins has been receiving death threats since his collision with Buster Posey. Friday and apologized again for the collision. MIAMI (AP) — Florida Marlins rookie Scott Cousins has been receiving death threats despite repeatedly apologizing for a colli- sion with San Francisco Giants star Buster Posey. The collision at home plate on May 25 left Posey with a broken bone in his lower left leg and three torn ligaments in his ankle. He's had surgery and is done for the season. Giants general manager Brian Sabean criticized Cousins on his weekly radio show on KNBR this week, calling the play malicious and unnecessary. Sabean also said "if I never hear from Cousins again, or he doesn't play another day in the big leagues, I think we'll all be happy." "He chose to be a hero, in my mind," Sabean said. "If that's his flash of fame, that's as good as it's going to get, pal. We'll have a long memory." Those comments got the attention of Major League Baseball, and exec- utive vice president of baseball oper- ations Joe Torre spoke with Sabean on Friday. The Giants also issued a statement saying Sabean's com- ments were made out of frustration, and the GM was trying to reach Cousins. "We intend to move beyond con- versations about last week's incident and focus our attention on Buster's full recovery and on defending our World Series title," the team said in the statement. Cousins also issued a statement "I hope and believe that Mr. Sabean's comments were made in the heat of the moment and are based more on his fondness for Buster Posey than on any animosity towards me," Cousins said in the statement. "This situation is still an open wound for many, including myself. As I have stated previously, nobody outside of Buster feels worse about his injury than I do." Cousins said he's tried to contact Posey but has been unsuccessful. "I do believe, however, that the play was clean and totally within the rules of the game," Cousins said. "Explaining over and over that I would never intentionally hurt another player for any reason won't change the minds of those who doubt my sincerity or intent. "I have a responsibility to myself, my teammates, and my organization to play the game hard. This is what has gotten me to the big leagues, and hopefully this is what will keep me here." Giants president Larry Baer he spoke with Marlins president David Samson on Friday regarding Sabean's comments. Baer also said Sabean talked to Florida GM Larry Beinfest and tried calling Cousins himself but was unsuccessful. "It's still a pretty raw emotional time for us," Baer said. "I mean, to lose (Posey) for the season, a guy who means so much to us. Having said that, we're looking forward and we're looking forward to Buster's recovery. We're certainly out of the business of talking about the inci- dent and revisiting it other than we think it's healthy dialogue to talk about what can be done to protect the player." Posey felt Cousins could have slid around him but also said it was a legal play. Marlins outfielder Logan Morri- son came to Cousins' defense during an interview Friday on Siruis/XM radio, calling Sabean "wildly unpro- fessional" for calling out his team- mate. "When has he played in the big leagues? When has he played in the minor leagues?" Morrison said. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but he's never been in a situation like that. It's terrible. "Why would you wish anything like that on anybody?" Morrison continued. "He's getting death threats from people. This is his hometown, San Francisco. He's wor- ried about his family and his friends that are there. And now (Sabean) is going to make comments like that? It's ignorant, it's inappropriate and he has no idea what the hell he's talking about." Florida manager Edwin Rodriguez said before Friday's game against the Milwaukee Brewers that he doesn't have to defend his young outfielder because Cousins didn't do anything wrong. "As a team we don't have any- thing to say," Rodriguez said. "If people want to keep talking about that, let them talk." The Giants visit the Marlins for a three-game series in August. noon • June 20-24 Girls-Boys 7th and 8th grades, 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. • June 27-July 1 Girls 9th through 12th grades 9 a.m. to noon • June 27-July 1 Boys 9th through 12th grades, 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. Camps for first and second graders are $50. All other camps are $75. Cost is $50 for 1st and 2nd graders $75 for 3rd-12th grade For more information or a brochure, contact Angie at 514-2712. BASKETBALL The Spartans Basketball Camp returns June 13-17 at Red Bluff High School. Instruction is led by current high school coaches. The cost of the camp is $50 and flyers are available at most school's main offices as well as the Red Bluff High School Student Store. Campers must be registered by the first day of camp. Boys and girls entering fourth through six grades will play at the Red Bluff Field House from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Boys entering seventh through ninth grade will meet at the Field House from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Girls entering seventh through ninth grade will meet in the gymnasium from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Girls entering 10th through 12th grade will play in the gym from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Boys entering 10th through 12th grade will camp in the field house from noon to 2 p.m. For more information call Stan Twitchell at Red Bluff High School at 529-8710. GOLF The Tehama County Farm Bureau’s 4th Annual Pre- Father’s Day Family & Fun Golf Tournament is sched- uled for Monday, June 13. It will be held at the Wilcox Oaks Golf Course in Red Bluff beginning at noon with team registration and a shotgun start at 1 p.m. The cost to participate in this event is $80 per per- son, which includes 18 holes of scramble golf, cart and a barbeque dinner. There will be four people per team. Prizes will be awarded to the 1st-3rd place teams. Proceeds from this event support the Ag Education Fund and objectives of the Tehama County Farm Bureau. This tournament is designed so that anyone and everyone may participate; even non-golfers are wel- come. It will be a day of great food, great prizes and of course – fun! For more information or to register please call Kari Dodd at 527-7882. Crawford’s 2-run single lifts Red Sox past A’s Ariz. Little Leaguer killed BOSTON (AP) — Carl Crawford blooped a go-ahead, two-run sin- gle to center field in the seventh inning and the Boston Red Sox ended a four-game losing streak with an 8-6 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Friday night. Boston rallied from a 4-0 deficit in the first and were trailing 6-5 when lefty Brian Fuentes came in to face lefty Crawford, who came through with a broken-bat hit just beyond second base. Joey Devine (0-1) loaded the bases in the seventh on a double by Adrian Gonzalez and then he hit Kevin Youk- ilis and walked David Ortiz. Bobby Jenks (2-2) got the win and Jonathan Papelbon pitched a perfect ninth for his 11th save in 12 opportunities. Jarrod Saltalamac- chia added a solo homer, his fifth of the year, for the Red Sox in the eighth. The Red Sox ended their longest losing streak since they began the season 0-6. The A’s dropped their fourth straight after winning four in a row. Before his hit, Craw- ford was batting just .103 (7 for 68) against lefties this season. And of his 21 RBIs before Friday, only six were at Fenway Park although two came from walkoff hits. The A’s ripped Clay Buchholz for four runs and five hits in the first, but the Red Sox came back to take a 5-4 lead after the third. Oakland tied it with a run in the fourth before taking a 6- 5 lead on Daric Barton’s RBI single in the fifth. David DeJesus start- ed the first-inning rally with a single, took sec- ond on a single by Josh Willingham and scored when Hideki Matsui grounded into a field- er’s choice for the sec- ond out. Then Buchholz have up three straight hits — a single by Kurt Suzuki that sent Matsui to second, an RBI single by Barton and a two-run single by Mark Ellis. The Red Sox began chipping away at the 4- 0 lead with two runs in the bottom of the first. Jacoby Ellsbury led off with a single, took sec- ond on his 20th stolen base of the season and third on a wild pitch then scored on Gonza- lez’s groundout. Youk- ilis followed with a double and scored on Ortiz’s single. Ellsbury’s sacrifice fly made it 4-3 in the second and Boston took the lead in the third when Ortiz doubled in one run and Jed Lowrie singled in another off starter Josh Outman. After retiring the next batter, Outman was replaced by Guillermo Moscoso, who pitched 2 1-3 scoreless innings. Oakland tied the score at 5 when Kevin Kouzmanoff singled, took second on a wild pickoff throw by Buch- holz and third on a wild pitch before scoring on Coco Crisp’s ground- out. Buchholz kept strug- gling in the fifth. Will- ingham led off with a double, moved up on a flyout by Matsui and scored on a single by Barton that drove Buch- holz from the game. Notes: The Athletics placed RHP Grant Balfour on paternity leave and recalled RHP Fautino De Los Santos from Triple-A Sacramento. ... In his other appearance this season against Oakland, Buchholz allowed one run in 5 1- 3 innings in a 5-3 win on April 20. after pitch hit chest PHOENIX (AP) — A 13-year-old Arizona boy was killed in a freak accident after a baseball hit him over the heart as he tried to bunt, officials in his Little League said Fri- day. Hayden Walton went for the bunt during a game Tuesday night in the close-knit northern Arizona city of Winslow, said Jamey Jones, a Winslow Little League official. ‘‘He took an inside pitch right in the chest,’’ Jones said. ‘‘After that he took two steps to first base and collapsed.’’ He died the next morning at a local hospital. The boy’s parents, who were at the game, are heartbro- ken, shocked and unable to speak to members of the media, league president and family spokesman Dale Thomas said. ‘‘It’s a hard thing to handle for everyone,’’ Thomas said. ‘‘When you’re touched by something of this magnitude, it sends shock waves throughout the community.’’ Thomas said he grew up around the boy’s family and described Hayden as ‘‘the epitome of what every little boy ought to be.’’ Besides participating in Little League, Hayden was a Boy Scout, loved to work on cars and helped neigh- borhood widows by mowing their lawns and doing odd jobs for them, Thomas said. He said Hayden had a younger sister. The league suspended games until Friday and has coun- selors available for players or parents who need them. Stephen Keener, president and CEO of Little League Baseball and Softball, said in a statement that ‘‘the loss of a child is incomprehensible.’’ ‘‘Words cannot adequately express our sorrow on the passing of Hayden,’’ he said. ‘‘Our thoughts and prayers go out to Hayden’s family, all the players and volunteers of the Winslow Little League, his classmates, and his friends, at this difficult time.’’ Weekend June 4-5, 2011 Tehama Tracker STRONG MAN Tehama Family Fitness presents Bob’s Tire Games, Saturday, at Bob’s Tires, 614 Walnut St. in Red Bluff. The event will feature strong man competitions involving tires with contests for men, women and chil- dren. MLB Athletics Boston