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Tehama Tracker Monday's results NFL Pittsburgh 49ers 20 3 Saturday's results GIRLS HOOPS Providence Christian Tourney FC Faith Christian Mercy 30 46 Marissa Starman: 14 points, 8 rebs Maggie Keller: 11 pts, 15 reb, 8 stls Michelle Jaramillo: 3-pointer Stefanie Cheek: 2 pts, 7 steals Keller, Cheek: All-Tournament Today's games Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl Florida International Marshall NBA PRESEASON Warriors Kings On the tube MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL •4 p.m., ESPN2 — Samford at Ken- tucky •6 p.m., ESPN2 — Butler at Gonza- ga NHL HOCKEY • 4:30 p.m., VERSUS — Chicago at Pittsburgh WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL •7 p.m., CSNB — Tennessee at Stanford Around town North Valley Rapids The North Valley Rapids ASA girls' softball club will be holding tryouts for the 2012 Summer 14-under travel team at Big League Dreams on Sat- urday, Dec. 31 from noon to 2 p.m. Visit their web site at www.northvalleyrapids.com. For additional information contact 14 U Team Manager, Jeff Lee: (530) 366-6063 or JLee@spi-ind.com Yorks sell 2 small stakes of 49ers to investors SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The York fami- ly has sold two small stakes in the San Fran- cisco 49ers franchise ''They were impor- tant people to us,'' John York said Monday night in explaining the moves. He declined to provide further details of the sales, first reported by the Sports Business Journal on Monday. The San Jose Mercury News said each stake was 1 percent. York's son, team president Jed York, said the sales have nothing to do with helping finance a new $1 billion stadium in Santa Clara, near the current team headquar- ters in technology-rich Silicon Valley. ''They're strategic limited partners,'' he said. Earlier this month, the team announced it secured $850 million in loans from Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and U.S. Bank to finance the project it hopes will get underway this spring with a formal groundbreaking. Make- ready work at the con- struction site is set for January. The new stadium is set to be a state-of-the- art 1.85 million-square foot facility with a seat 68,500-seat stadium fea- turing 165 luxury suites and 9,000 club seats. The venue also will be constructed with the versatility to host a wide range of events includ- ing domestic and inter- national soccer, college football, motocross, concerts and various civic events. (AP)—The Sacramento Kings voided Chuck Hayes' $21.3 million, four-year con- tract Monday, saying the for- ward-center failed a team physical that forced his release. Kings general manager Geoff Petrie said in a state- ment Monday that inform- ing Hayes his deal had been voided was ''one of the most heartbreaking moments of my professional or personal life.'' He said Hayes asked the team to refrain from any further comment. MCT photo Raiders quarterback Carson Palmer is sacked during Sunday's loss to the Detroit Lions. ALAMED (AP) — A late-game collapse has essentially left the Oakland Raiders' hopes of ending an eight-year playoff drought to this formula: Win their final two games and hope. Before the Raiders can start digging deep into the NFL's tiebreaking scenarios they have a much more important task. They must figure out how to get back on track following a three- game losing streak. Lopsided losses at Miami and Green Bay were followed by perhaps Oak- land's most crushing loss of the season. The Raiders (7- 7) blew a 13-point lead in the closing minutes against Detroit and lost 28-27 on Sunday to deal a blow to their playoff hopes. "Three weeks ago we were 7-4 and feeling pretty good about ourselves and now all of a sudden we've gotten to .500, so that's not where we want to be," coach Hue Jackson said. "I think we understand the predicament that we have put ourselves in. So what we need to do is get the ship riding and go to Kansas City and play well." The players had the day off Monday because of the short week of preparation for Saturday's road game against the Chiefs. The mood in the locker room after the game was somber but the players know they need to put that in the past once practice starts Tues- day. "There is no choice but to move on," quarterback Carson Palmer said. "It'd be easy to go in the tank and say, 'We blew our opportu- nity,' but we have a good group of leadership and we understand where we are and obviously we desper- ately needed this win. It didn't work out. But we've got two big games left, and who knows what happens with other teams. We need help obviously, but we've got to get over it." A win would have put Oakland into a tie for first in the AFC West with Denver and a tie with the New York Jets and Cincinnati in the race for the conference's final wild-card spot. The Raiders now head into their closing stretch at Kansas City and home against San Diego with their once-promising play- off hopes flickering. The simplest path to the postseason would be win- ning the final two games and hoping Denver loses at home to Kansas City in the season finale, giving the Raiders the division title based on a better division record. The Broncos would get the edge if they lose this week at Buffalo and then beat Kansas City based on a better record against com- mon opponents. There is also still a remote chance the Raiders could sneak in as a wild- card team with a split of the final two games. But that would take two losses by both the New York Jets and Cincinnati, at least one loss by Tennessee and then Oakland coming out on top in the strength of victory tiebreaker. "This is what I know, we just need to win," Jackson said. "All that other stuff, I can't worry about it. We have lost three games in a row. ... We got two games to play, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't worry about anything else that could happen, might happen or any of that. We need to win." This past game marked the seventh time this season Oakland's defense has been on the field in the final two minutes protecting a one- score lead. It was just the second time the Raiders failed to close one of those games out, following a 38- 35 loss at Buffalo in the second game of the season. Oakland's defense had done just enough to close out wins over Houston, Cleveland, San Diego, Min- nesota and Chicago, but fell apart late against Matthew Stafford, Calvin Johnson and the Detroit Lions. The Raiders took a 27- 14 lead with 7:47 remain- ing when Aaron Curry returned a fumble 6 yards for a touchdown. Jackson opted to kick the extra point instead of going for the 2- point conversion that would have made it a 14-point game. That decision proved costly when Stafford drove the Lions 71 yards to a score with 4:59 remaining and then got the ball back at his 2 with 2:14 left and no timeouts. Two long passes to Johnson — including a 48- yarder down the middle against linebacker Rolando McClain and reserve safety Jerome Boyd — got Detroit deep into Oakland territory. A pass interference call against Stanford Routt gave Detroit a first down at the 6 and two plays later Stafford found an open Johnson for the winning score. "You have to make plays down the stretch," Jackson said. "The last two minutes of a football game is proba- bly the most important part of the game. You make a first down, you probably win. You score, you win. You stop a team from scor- ing, you win. Throw all the other first 58 minutes out. Those last two minutes, you have to do the things that it takes to win." The team announced last week that a heart exam on the new Kings big man showed an abnormality that would require further test- ing. That came days after the former Houston Rockets forward-center signed a con- tract with Sacramento. Hayes, now 28, averaged 3.4 points and 4.7 rebounds in 17 minutes per game in six seasons with the Rock- ets. He attended Sacramen- to's media day Thursday and appeared fine, joking around with several teammates, but was held out of the team's preseason opener at Golden State on Saturday night. Hayes' situation is the second time in the last week that a medical exam on an NBA player revealed cause for concern. Boston Celtics forward Jeff Green will have surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm and will miss the entire season. Green was scheduled for an operation on Monday at the Cleveland Clinic. Doctors told him the operation ''should complete- ly repair Green's condition and that he can expect to resume his NBA career next season,'' the Celtics said in a news release Saturday. An aortic aneurysm, which is more common in older peo- ple, is a ballooning of the wall of the aorta, the major artery that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. A person may show no symptoms from the aneurysm; but if it ruptures, it is likely to be fatal if not repaired immediately. Specifics of Hayes' con- dition have not been released. The Kings only announced last week that a stress echocardiogram test revealed an abnormality. A call and email seeking com- ment from Hayes' agent, Calvin Andrews, were not immediately returned. Hayes' release leaves a void in Sacramento's start- ing lineup and opens the possibility of a return by Samuel Dalembert, a free agent center who played with the Kings last season. Dalembert averaged 5.1 points and 4.9 rebounds. 7 p.m. CSNC 5 p.m. ESPN SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Fran- cisco 49ers were lights- out in their return to prime time, riding their top-ranked run defense again and prevailing through a pair of power outages to beat ailing quarterback Ben Roeth- lisberger and the Pitts- burgh Steelers 20-3 on Monday night. Vernon Davis caught a 1-yard touchdown pass for the 49ers (11-3) one play after setting himself up with a 21- yard reception from Alex Smith, Frank Gore ran for a 5-yard score and David Akers kicked field goals of 22 and 38 See 49ERS, page 2B Raiders look to recover from collapse Sports 1B Tuesday December 20, 2011 When the lights go down in the city MCT photo San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree is shoved out of bounds, Monday night. Kings void Hayes' contract after failed physical