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Tehama Tracker Friday's results BOYS HOOPS Mercy Redding Christian GIRLS HOOPS Mercy Redding Christian Today's games BOYS HOOPS Yreka Corning Los Molinos Portola Maxwell Mercy 7:30 p.m. 43 23 47 22 Isaac Williams: 12 pts, 10 rebs Sports BY RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor CORNING—The Invitation- al was back in Corning and Erik Miranda was back atop the victo- ry podium. 6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. GIRLS HOOPS Red Bluff Foothill Los Molinos Portola Maxwell Mercy SOCCER Yreka Corning E Los Molinos Esparto Mercy Willows NBA Warriors Kings NHL Columbus Sharks CSNB 7:30 p.m. On the tube MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL •4 p.m., ESPN — Michigan St. at Illi- nois • 4 p.m., ESPN2 — Clemson at Vir- ginia •6 p.m., ESPN — Vanderbilt at Arkansas NBA •5 p.m., NBATV—Denver at Mem- phis • 7:30 p.m., CSNB — Sacramento at Golden State NHL • 4:30 p.m., NBCSP — Washington at Tampa Bay • 7:30 p.m., CSNC — Columbus at San Jose SOCCER • 11:55 a.m., ESPN2 — Premier League, Stoke City at Manchester United Around Town Los Mo 82 basketball Los Molinos High School will honor its 1982 boys basketball team on Feb. 3 for the 30th anniversary of the team's section title. The school will be putting up a banner in their honor in between the girls and boys bas- ketball game. The cele- bration should take place around 6:30 p.m. Redding Riptide The Redding Riptide is looking for an experi- enced pitcher for its 18U summer travel softball team. Riptide typically plays around six tournaments both local and out of the area. We pick featured showcase tournaments to get maximum expo- sure for our athletes. Financial aid is avail- able on an as needed basis". For more infor- mation contact Don Wolfe at 510-7524 or don@reddingriptide.com. Follow us on Twitter: @TehamaSports ALAMEDA (AP) — Reggie McKenzie started researching Den- nis Allen as a potential coaching candidate this past season when he first heard the Oakland Raiders might hire him as a general manag- er. He talked to some of Allen's for- mer players and coaching colleagues and only got rave reviews. When McKenzie sat down with Allen two weeks ago in Denver for his first interview, he knew he had found his man, ''The bottom line, he was what the doctor ordered,'' McKenzie said Monday at a news conference to introduce Allen. ''He understood the big picture as far as putting a plan together, how to do this, this and this. We went over everything. How you treat people, how you treat play- ers, getting a staff together. It was all right in line (with) the way I was thinking.'' With speculation pointing to McKenzie hiring one of his former colleagues in Green Bay to be his first head coach, he instead turned to the 39-year-old Allen, who had just one year of experience as a defen- sive coordinator in Denver and had never been a head coach at any level. He starts his first head coaching job in Oakland with the task of turn- ing around a franchise that has gone nine straight seasons without a win- ning record or a playoff berth while going through a revolving door of head coaches. Allen is the seventh head coach for the Raiders since 2003, but he is the first to be hired since longtime owner Al Davis died in October. Davis' son, Mark, took over as managing general partner and hired McKenzie earlier this month to remake the football side of the orga- nization. McKenzie immediately fired Hue Jackson, who went 8-8 in his only season as head coach, and then began the search that ended with Allen's hiring. Allen got more stability than his predecessors with a four-year con- tract as opposed to the two guaran- teed years they were given under Al Davis and will have more say in putting together his staff and roster than head coaches previously had in Oakland. ''At the end of the day, what I was really concerned with was, who are the people that are leading the orga- ''The only way that you create habits is through consistency, doing the same things over and over and over. Well, if you're committing penalties, that becomes a habit. We've got to change those habits, all right? We've got to develop the proper habits so that we're not creating those penalties on a daily basis.'' — Oakland Raiders head coach Dennis Allen nization now? The people who are leading the organization now are Mark Davis and Reggie McKenzie, and when I looked across the table at Reggie McKenzie, I knew that was a man that I believed in and that I trusted in,'' Allen said. ''That was the only thing that was a concern to me, and that was what really drew me to this job.'' Allen has plenty of work to do to turn the Raiders around after a near- ly decade-long stretch of losing and poor play. Oakland has been plagued by sloppy play and porous run defense during that stretch and both issues were major problems last sea- son. Oakland also set an NFL record last season with 163 penalties for 1,358 yards so it came as little sur- prise that Allen used a version of the word discipline more than a half- dozen times in his news conference. ''The only way that you create habits is through consistency, doing the same things over and over and over,'' Allen said. ''Well, if you're committing penalties, that becomes a habit. We've got to change those habits, all right? We've got to devel- op the proper habits so that we're not creating those penalties on a daily basis.'' The Raiders are also coming off one of their worst defensive seasons ever. Oakland had franchise worsts in touchdown passes allowed (31), yards per carry (5.1), yards passing (4,262) and total yards (6,201), while giving up the third-most points (433) in team history. The struggles came despite a unit that had high-priced and high-pro- file players throughout, from line- men Richard Seymour and Tommy Kelly to linebackers Rolando McClain and Kamerion Wimbley and defensive backs Stanford Routt and Michael Huff. ''I don't think radical changes are what need to be made,'' Allen said. ''Obviously, just with all aspects of the game, you're always going to try to upgrade your team in whatever way that you can but I do still feel like there's a talented defense. I feel like we got enough players, both on offense and defense, that we can win a championship with.'' Allen and McKenzie will make those tweaks together as McKenzie envisions a general manager-coach relationship similar to the successful ones he witnessed as an executive in Green Bay. ''This is a team effort,'' McKen- zie said. ''When we go about getting players, work on getting a staff in here, how we're going to do things on the football side, we're going to do these things together. It's not, 'I got this, you have this.' We're not doing it like that. The right hand will know what the left hand is doing. We're in this thing together.'' Allen said he will not call defen- sive plays as head coach, preferring to be a ''game manager'' who is deeply involved in all facets of the team on game days. That will put a greater importance on the staff he puts together. The Raiders have only one assis- tant currently under contract, offen- sive coordinator Al Saunders, and there is no assurance that he will return. McKenzie said Allen could keep a few of the other assistants but most of the staff will be new. Allen wants a defense that attacks the quarterback and is stout against the run. Allen also said he wants to run an up-tempo, aggressive offense and believes he has many of the playmakers needed to make it work. Carson Palmer will be back for his first full season with the Raiders and has already talked to Allen and McKenzie about the new direction for the franchise. ''Carson Palmer is extremely excited about what we have going here,'' Allen said. ''He's looking forward to the future and he's excit- ed about the opportunities here.'' CSN 7:30 p.m. 3:15 p.m. 7:30 p.m. After a one year absence the Corning Invitational returned, Saturday, and the Cardinals senior made the most of it secur- ing the championship in the 198- pound division. Red Bluff's Bryce Eggert was the runner-up at 173 pounds. "I was excited to get that win for the home crowd," Miranda said after his first round pin fall victory of Lakeview's Tony Frank. The win propelled Corning to a third place finish in the team standings. Orland with 281 points won 5 p.m. 6 p.m. the event, followed by Anderson with 126 and Corning with 104. Red Bluff finished ninth with 84 points. It's been a remarkable season for Miranda, who also won at the prestigious Nor Cal Champi- onships. "It's just been growing," Miranda said of his success this year. "I didn't expect this." Miranda said he credits his season to hard work in practice teammate Noah Hall. At 223 pounds, Hall is also 3:15 p.m. having a strong season for Corn- ing. He placed third at the Invita- tional. 3:30 p.m. Jon Jones at 155 pounds gave Corning another third place fin- ish. Daniel Welborn was fifth at 173. Red Bluff had medal winners Daily News photo by Rich Greene in Eggert, 148-pounder Kyle Case (3rd), 109-pounder Marco Gonzalez (5th), 141-pounder Armando Aguilar (7th), 155- pounder Gabe Rivera (7th) and 163-pounder Tucker Gulliford (7th). Corning's Erik Miranda (right) squares off with Lakeview's Tony Frank, Saturday. sections," Eggert said. Sections and the prime of the wrestling season is just around the corner. Eggert had his first meeting with Orland's Tyler Gil in the 173-pound final. The pair are considered No. 1 and 2 in the sec- tion for their weight class. After a scoreless first period, Gil reversed Eggert and worked to a pin fall late in the second round. "I'm going to try for him at "It gets a lot more intense. It gets harder as you go," Eggert said of the upcoming weeks. League championships are set for Feb. 11 with divisionals the week after and the NSCIF Mas- ters Feb. 24-25. It's there a North State wrestler's ultimate goal is deter- mined — a trip to the state finals. "Hopefully by then I'm at the top of my game," Miranda said. "I don't think I've found it yet." Weigh Class Winners: 109, Hugo Puzo, 2012 Corning Invitational Orland; 116, Lucas Gaeth, Durham; 123, Ryan Blyleven, Clearlake; 129, Hermil Esquivel, Orland; 135, Jimmy Gamboa, Orland; 141, Kyle Johnston, Gold Beach; 148, Jay Lysne, Lakeview; 155, Derek Carl, Gold Beach; 163, Brian Agee, Golden Sierra; 173, Tyler Gil, Orland; 185, Jariah Booker, Las Plumas; 198, Erik Miranda, Corning; 223, Austin Lobsinger, West Valley; 288 Jaremy Brandsted, Modoc. Raiders introduce new coach Giants vs Patriots worth wait INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Here we go again. Four years after what many consider the best fin- ish in Super Bowl history, the Giants and Patriots are facing off once more for the NFL championship. While there are no perfect records on the line this time, this matchup could be equally enticing. It certainly looks that way heading into Sunday's big game. In 2008, with New England undefeated and having beaten New York in the regular-season finale, the Patriots were 12-point favorites. The spread now is 3, and the Giants beat them during the season. Both teams are on quite a roll, too. The Patriots (15-3) have won 10 straight — it was 18 in a row in '08 — and the Giants (12-7) have five consecutive victories. All of which matters not a bit, according to Bill Belichick, who will tie a record for head coaches with his fifth Super Bowl appear- ance. ''I've been asked about that game for several days now. All of the games in the past really don't mean that much at this point,'' said Belichick, 3-1 in NFL title games. ''This game is about this team this year. There aren't really a lot of us coaches and players who were involved in that game, and very few players, in rel- ative terms, between both teams. We are where we are now, and we're different than where we were earlier in the season. The Giants are where they are now, and I think they're different than where they were at different points of the season. To take it back years and years before that, I don't think it has too much bearing on See WAIT, page 2B 1B Tuesday January 31, 2012 Miranda wins on home mats WRESTLING