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ByRichGreene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter RED BLUFF Red Bluff High School's annual Holiday Clas- sic basketball tournament tips off for the 25th time tonight, highlighted by a 7 p.m. Te- hama County showdown be- tween the Lady Spartans and Corning. The Lady Spartans come into the tournament with a 3-1 record. Red Bluff won the inaugu- ral Holiday Classic in 1990, but hasn't captured a title since then. Last year the Lady Spar- tans finished third. The Lady Cardinals are 2-1 this season. Corning's best Holiday Classic finish came in 1999 when they were the run- ner-up. The tournament begins at 4 p.m. today with Shasta (5-1) against West Valley (4-3). Shasta finished as the run- ner-up to Enterprise last year. They have won five Holiday Classics, the most recent title coming in 2002. West Valley won their fourth Holiday Classic title in 2011. At 5:30 p.m. Enterprise (3-1) takes on Paradise (1-5). Enterprise has won the past two Holiday Classics and four titles overall. Paradise won the tourna- ment in 2009 and 2010. Wednesday's action ends with Ferndale (1-2) and Central Valley (4-1) tipping off around 8:30 p.m. The boys begin play Thurs- day night with Red Bluff open- ing at 7 p.m. against the Del Norte Warriors from Crescent City. Holiday Classic regulars Lake Oswego and South Med- ford are once again making the trip down from Oregon. Merced's Golden Valley re- turns for the second year. They finished as last year's runner-up falling to Lake Os- wego in the championship. It was Lake Oswego's third consecutive Holiday Classic championship and fifth over- all title. PREP BASKETBALL 25thannualRedBluff HolidayClassicopens Eight-team girls bracket starts tonight featuring Lady Spartans, Corning AllisonWinningandtheRedBluffLadySpartansmeetCorningat7p.m.tonightinthefirstroundofthe 25th Red Bluff Holiday Classic basketball tournament. The boys bracket starts Thursday. The Red Bluff boys play 7p.m. Thursday against Del Norte. Online: For more stories on the Red Bluff Holiday Classic basketball tournament visit REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM. By Teresa M. Walker The Associated Press MEMPHIS, TENN. Marc Ga- sol scored 24 points, and the Memphis Grizzlies snapped the Golden State Warriors' NBA-best 16-game winning streak with a 105-98 victory on Tuesday night. Mike Conley and Zach Ran- dolph each scored 17 points, and Randolph also had 10 re- bounds as Memphis earned its fifth straight win. Vince Carter added a season-high 16 points, and Jon Leuer had 11. The Warriors came in with the NBA's best record at 21-2. They lost for the first time since Nov. 11 against the Spurs, also the last team to beat Memphis. This was the first time in NBA history in which both teams had 19 or more wins in the first 24 games. Golden State star Stephen Curry missed back-to-back 3-pointers in the final 10 sec- onds. He had 19 points on 9-of- 25 shooting, including a 1-for-10 night from beyond the arc. Klay Thompson scored 22 points for the Warriors, and NBA Golden State's 16-game win streak ends Warriors enter game Tuesday with league's best record at 21-2, take first loss since Nov. 11 BRANDON DILL — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol struggles to stay on his feet against Golden State Warriors center Festus Ezeli (31) in the first half Tuesday in Memphis, Tenn. GRIZZLIES 105, WARRIORS 98 Up next: Thursday, Oklahoma City Thunder at Golden State Warriors, 7:30p.m., TV on TNT. THESCORE In the deadliest slaughter of innocents in Pakistan in years, Taliban gunmen attacked a school Tuesday and killed 141 people — almost all of them students — before govern- ment troops ended the siege. SCHOOL IN PAKISTAN Talibanassaultleaves 141 dead in slaughter FULL STORY ON PAGE B3 Anderson is at Red Bluff for a 4p.m. girls soccer game followed by the boys teams meeting at 6p.m. Corning boys and girls host Live Oak at 3:15p.m. SOCCER Red Bluff, Corning host boys, girls matches Red Bluff wrestling is sched- uled to be at Chico at 6p.m. tonight for a dual meet. The Corning Cardinals host the Orland Trojans at 6p.m. for their own dual meet. WRESTLING Red Bluff, Corning have dual meets tonight Mayor Eric Garcetti an- nounced Tuesday a plan to equip 7,000officers on the Los Angeles police force with on-body cameras by next summer, the nation's largest agency to make the move. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS Body cameras planned for LA police next year FULL STORY ON PAGE B5 By Cam Inman Bay Area News Group SANTA CLARA It's not as if the San Francisco 49ers are relieved they've been knocked out of the playoff picture for the first time in four years. But debating who might be their most valuable de- fensive player — a de facto team MVP given the offense's ineptness — brought out smiles in a loose and lively locker room Tuesday. There was no consensus MVP, as expected. Instead, each of 10 players in- formally polled cited numerous nominees from an injury-riddled defense that's admirably carried the 49ers (7-7), only to see their efforts die in vain with Sunday's official elimination from postsea- son contention. Safety Eric Reid willingly went public with his MVP nomination: "Everybody. With how the sea- son's gone, everybody had to step up and play well, and we've done a good job doing that." The 49ers have allowed the third-fewest yards (307.1 per game) and ninth-fewest points (20.4 per game), and they rank in the top 10 both in yards against the pass (third-best) and run (eighth-best). Meanwhile, scoring points has been the 49ers' down- 49ERS Defenders discuss who's their MVP so far Informal poll cites Bethea, Wilhoite and McDonald ELAINE THOMPSON—THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Seattle Seahawks' Marshawn Lynch (24) rushes against the San Francisco 49ers' Aaron Lynch. By Elliott Almond Bay Area News Group REDWOODCITY Bay Area leaders joined officials from three other cities Tuesday to make their best pitches to U.S. Olympic Com- mittee members in an effort to bring the Summer Games to the United States for the first time in 18 years. Representatives from San Fran- cisco, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. met with USOC leaders in a Redwood Shores hotel in a major step toward deciding whether to put forth an American bid for the 2024 Summer Olym- pics. "We're just grateful to make the case for San Francisco," said Giants president Larry Baer, who is heading the bid with two part- ners. "With all the growth and new facilities there is a vibrancy that is palatable" in the Bay Area. No American city has played host to the Summer Olympics since Atlanta in 1996. The United States also held the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. But the International Olympic Committee has gone elsewhere in the past 14 years. U.S. Olympic leaders have been careful to move forward after failed bids for 2012 2024 SUMMER GAMES Bay Area makes bid for Olympics with other US cities CLASSIC PAGE 2 OLYMPICS PAGE 2 49ERS PAGE 2 WARRIORS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Wednesday, December 17, 2014 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1