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Tehama Tracker Today's games VOLLEYBALL Corning Enterprise 4:30 p.m. TENNIS Red Bluff Pleasant Valley 3:30 p.m. University Prep Corning 3:30 p.m. MLB L.A. Angels Athletics LAA — (J.Williams 3-0) OAK — (Moscoso 8-8) San Diego Giants SD (Luebke 5-9) SF — (Cain 11-10) On the tube MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL •5 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, Cleveland at Texas or Detroit at Chicago SOCCER • 11:30 a.m., CSNB — UEFA Cham- pions League, Arsenal at Dortmund Around town Golf For A Cause Sevillano Links will host its 4th Annual Girls Club: Golf Fore a Cause Clinic on Sept. 24. Women 18 and older, will participate in a cele- bratory golf clinic from 9:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the expansive range & practice center. The $60 donation fee includes the Course of Action Golf Clinic, Tee Party and Boutique Open, Fairway to Food Lun- cheon, Celebrate Golf- Celebrate Life Raffle and Presentation, a goodie bag and a pair of Paula Cream- er Collection sunglasses by Sundog Eyewear. Call 528-4600. Booster Bonanza The Red Bluff Spartan Booster Club will host its inaugural Fall Booster Bonanza Oct. 15 in the Tyler Jelly Building at the Tehama District Fair- ground. The 1987 Red Bluff Lady Spartans state cham- pion girls basketball team will be the featured guests. A social hour begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by a tri-tip dinner at 6:30 p.m. and dancing in front of the live band Northern Heat will start at 8:30 p.m. There will also be a silent auction. Tickets are $30 if bought in advance or $40 at the door. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased from Red Bluff Spartans athletes. All Funds raised from this event will be used to support all of the athletic programs at Red Bluff High. For more information or to make a donation con- tact Ken Robison at 527- 1111. Alumni football Alumni football is coming to Tehama Coun- ty. Gridiron Alumni is planning a full contact alumni football game between Corning and Red Bluff High School alumni this October. Players are needed to sign up and the first 40 players on each team get to play. If you or someone you know is interested in putting on the pads one more time, please go to www.gridironalumni.com to register. Los Molinos, Orland, Hamilton, and other area teams are welcome to reg- ister as well. If you have any ques- tions, please call Chris at (530) 410-6396 or go to the website. 7:05 p.m. Sports NEW YORK (AP) — Both- ered by pain in his back, ribs and cramping legs, Novak Djokovic was face-down beside the court in Arthur Ashe Stadium, getting massaged by a trainer. Having dropped a set against defending champion Rafael Nadal, Djokovic's grip on the U.S. Open final appeared to be starting to slip away and, worse, his body was breaking down. His confidence? That, more than any particular stroke, is what Djokovic credits with transform- ing him from a top player to a great one — and it never wavered one bit Monday night. 7:15 p.m. Producing a nearly perfect performance to match his nearly perfect season, the No. 1-ranked Djokovic returned brilliantly, whipped winners from all angles and beat No. 2 Nadal 6-2, 6-4, 6- 7 (3), 6-1 in a match chock-full of lengthy, mesmerizing points to earn the first U.S. Open champi- onship of his career and third Grand Slam trophy of 2011. ''In big matches, the winner is decided by small margins, a cou- ple points. I guess the winner is the one who believes in victory more,'' said Djokovic, who is 64- 2 with 10 tournament titles. ''I guess it just clicked in my head. Through the last couple of years, I didn't change my game in any major way. ... But I'm hit- ting shots that maybe I wasn't hitting,'' he explained. ''I'm going for it. I'm more aggres- sive.'' It's sure working, particularly against the man he replaced atop the rankings, Nadal. A year ago, it was Nadal who won three major titles, including by beating Djokovic in the final at Flushing Meadows. That 1B Tuesday September 13, 2011 Djokovic beats Nadal to win US Open men's tennis — or any sport, for that matter. ''I've had an amazing year,'' Djokovic said, ''and it keeps going.'' Nadal led their head-to-head series 16-7 at the end of 2010. And since? Djokovic is 6-0 against Nadal this year, all in tournament finals — three on hard courts, including Monday; two on clay; and one on grass at Wimbledon. Djokovic also won the Australian Open in January, and is only the sixth man in the 40-plus years of the Open era to win three major titles in a single season. ''Obviously I'm disappoint- ed,'' Nadal said, ''but you know what this guy is doing is unbe- lievable.'' With a couple of months left, Djokovic can set his sights on the best win-loss record in the mod- ern era: John McEnroe went 82-3 in 1984, although that only included two Grand Slam titles, because he lost in the French Open final and didn't enter the Australian Open. Roger Federer was 81-4 in 2005 with two majors, exiting twice in the semi- finals. Rod Laver (1962, 1969) and Don Budge (1938) are the only men to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in a year. The biggest change Nadal has noticed in Djokovic? ''He's confident enough in MCT photo Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain during the men's final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament New York, Monday. defeat helped Djokovic realize he was being too passive at key moments on his sport's most Dolphins unable to solve Brady, lose opener MIAMI (AP) — Chad Henne had the best game of his Miami Dolphins career. Problem was, so did the other for- mer Michigan quarterback on the field — turning a Monday night opener into a Monday nightmare for a Dolphins' defense that expected to rank among the NFL's best this season. Tom Brady embarrassed the Dol- phins' secondary by throwing for a career-best 517 yards and four touch- downs — including a 99-yarder to for- mer Miami receiver Wes Welker to seal the game in the fourth quarter — and the New England Patriots beat Miami 38-24, handing the Dolphins their 10th loss in 11 home games dating back to December 2009. ''It's embarrassing. It's embarrass- ing. That should never happen,'' Dol- phins safety Yeremiah Bell said when told of Brady's final numbers. ''It's really embarrassing. It goes back to us challenging guys. That's on us. We can give him credit for what he did, but at the same time we've got to go out and challenge guys. That's the bottom line.'' Henne completed 30 of 49 passes for 416 yards, 53 more than his previ- ous best of 363 set last season. All for naught, thanks to Brady, the NFL's unanimous MVP last season who picked up right where he left off. ''We did some good things,'' Henne said. ''We have to watch the tape, see what we can correct and get better at. The best thing about this is the team's not quitting. Offensive guys, defensive guys, special teams, we didn't quit out there.'' Combined, the former Wolverines threw for 933 yards in the game, the 906 yards of net passing one of numer- ous records set Monday night. ''Unfortunately, those numbers don't really matter,'' Dolphins receiver Davone Bess said. ''We lost.'' New England finished with a team- record 622 yards of offense, the most allowed by a Miami defense, the previ- ous record being 597 against the New York Jets in 1988. ''They made some plays on us,'' Brady said. ''We made a few more than them.'' See BRADY, page 2B important stages and set him on a path that's led to one of the great- est seasons in the history of every moment to keep believing in one more ball, one more ball,'' Nadal said. ''His forehand is not more painful than before. His backhand is not more painful than before. Serve's the same.'' Of all of Djokovic's skills, the one that separated him the most See OPEN, page 2B Rebels pay tribute to 9/11 with moment of silence `Photo courtesy of Christina Meeds The Red Bluff Rebels vs Redding American Legion baseball game included participating in the National Moment of Silence Sunday morning at exactly 10 a.m. to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Harbaugh gets debut victory SANTA CLARA (AP) — Before David Akers could sneak away to his car unnoticed and under the radar as he prefers it, Jack Harbaugh stopped the kicker for a quick greeting and congratulations. Years after Harbaugh recruited the dependable Akers to Western Kentucky only to see him choose Louisville instead, Akers booted four field goals and converted three extra points to help Har- baugh's son, Jim, win his NFL coaching debut with the San Francisco 49ers in a 33-17 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. For everybody who figured Jim Harbaugh faced a steep learning curve in his high-profile move down the freeway from Stanford to the NFL, his 49ers got it done against the defending NFC West champions. Akers wanted Ted Ginn Jr. to take the glory in this one after his two late kick returns for touchdowns in a 59-second span sealed it. ''It was fun,'' Jim Harbaugh said Monday. ''You realize you can't get to win No. 2 without getting win No. 1.'' Leading 19-17 after the Seahawks got back in it on a touchdown by a former Harbaugh Stanford star, Doug Baldwin, Ginn took any Seattle momen- tum away for good. He returned a kickoff 102 yards for a touchdown and followed that up by scoring on a 55-yard punt return — the first time in franchise history the 49ers got one of each. Next up in Week 2: a frustrated and determined Dallas team that blew a 14-point fourth-quarter lead in a 27-24 loss to the Jets on Sunday night. Quarterback Tony Romo got home a little after 5 a.m. and was back to work by 10 to start studying up on the 49ers. The Harbaughs kept their celebrating mellow with a casual dinner in so they could watch the last of the Cowboys-Jets opener. The modest, soft-spoken Akers headed out after just another solid day's work. Nailing his kicks through the uprights is what he does and always has done — now with the Niners as the replace- ment to the retired Joe Nedney. ''Just to win for Coach Harbaugh for the first and to know the family so well over the years, to be part of it is really something special,'' Akers said. ''This is a franchise with great history and, obvi- ously, the last some years have been a little on the down side. We are trying our best to change that. It takes time, but today was a good start.'' Make that eight years. Eight years out of the playoffs and eight years without a winning record. The 36-year-old Akers joined the rebuilding 49ers in July after 12 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, where John Harbaugh — Jim's big brother — served as his special teams coach for eight years. ''They always say special teams are one-third of the game,'' Jack Harbaugh said. ''It might have been just a little bit more than one-third of the game — it took a lot of pressure off the football team that special teams responded that well. David, he was with John in Philadelphia. Now he's here, and he kicked those field goals today.'' Akers was named to the past two Pro Bowls and last season set a career high with 23 touchbacks. But the Eagles drafted kicker Alex Henery in the fourth round, making Akers expendable. See DEBUT, page 2B CSNC CSNB