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Tehama Tracker Today's games MLB L.A. Dodgers Athletics LAD— Harang, 5-3 OAK— McCarthy, 5-3 Giants L.A. Angels SF — Zito, 5-4 LAA— C.Wilson, 7-4 NBA FINALS Oklahoma City Miami Miami leads series 2-1 On the tube COLLEGE BASEBALL •5 p.m., ESPN — World Series, game 9, Florida State vs. UCLA, at Omaha, Neb. DIVING •9 p.m., NBCSN — Olympic Trials, men's 10m semifinal, at Federal Way, Wash. MLB •4 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, St. Louis at Detroit or Atlanta at N.Y. Yankees •5 p.m., WGN — Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox •7 p.m., CSNB—San Francisco at L.A. Angels •7 p.m., CSNC—L.A. Dodgers at Oakland NBA •6 p.m., ABC — Playoffs, finals, game 4, Oklahoma City at Miami SOCCER • 11:30 a.m., ESPN — UEFA, Euro 2012, group phase, England vs. Ukraine, at Donetsk, Ukraine • 11:30 a.m., ESPN2 — UEFA, Euro 2012, group phase, Sweden vs. France, at Kiev, Ukraine R.C. Owens dies at 78 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — R.C. Owens, a longtime 49ers front office man and eight-year NFL wide receiver whose impressive leaping ability earned him the nickname ''Alley Oop'' and helped popularize the phrase, has died. He was 78. for the first of his five NFL seasons, announced Owens' death Monday. The team said he died Sunday and had been liv- ing in Manteca, about 75 miles east of San Francis- co. college basketball star at the College of Idaho, also played two seasons for the Baltimore Colts and his final year with the New York Giants in 1964. He had 206 career receptions for 3,285 yards and 22 touchdowns. He also ran for a score on his lone carry. The 6-foot-3 Owens, a Nov. 12, 1933, in Shreve- port, La. Owens was born on athlete (AP) — The world's highest-paid athlete is in jail. The guy in second place just lost a title fight, and the man who held the distinction for a decade is now third. Forbes has released its list of the 100 highest paid athletes, and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., nick- named ''Money,'' is No. 1. Mayweather, who made $85 million for two fights last year, is currently serving a three-month jail sentence in Las Vegas for domestic battery. Boxer Manny Pacquiao is second on the maga- zine's list at $62 million from earnings and endorsements. Pacquiao lost his WBO welter- weight title to Timothy Bradley earlier this month. Tiger Woods, No. 1 on the list since 2001, made $59.4 million to place third. Mayweather highest paid LeBron James of the Miami Heat is fourth ($53 million). He is one of 13 basketball players on the list. erer is fifth at $52.7 mil- lion. Tennis star Roger Fed- Thirty football players made the top 100, with Peyton Manning tops among them at No. 10. Courtesy photo Minor League Red Bluff Mudcats played the Corning Tigers Friday, beating them 18-3 to take the California Dist. 1 TOC Cham- pionship.The Mudcats went undefeated during the season, which started March 10. Players pictured, from left, are Faith Tatro, Taylor Souze-Peterson, Aliyah Hethcoat, Elaina Owens, Amy Stroing, Abbey Lair, Claire Miller, Sarah Hillaire, Caylie Adams, Isabel Ruiz, Angelica Morales, Shelbe Cappello and Alyvia Mackey. Coaches, from left, are Wade Souza, Manager Matt Tatro and Scotty Hethcoat. The Niners, his team Sharks officially announce McLellan's return SAN JOSE (AP) — Nearly two months after their season ended prematurely with a first-round playoff exit, the San Jose Sharks vowed to be a more aggressive team on the ice next season under coach Todd McLellan. General manager Doug Wilson and McLellan addressed the media on Monday to preview the upcom- ing draft and free agency period and formally announce that McLel- lan will return for a fifth season as coach in San Jose. The Sharks ownership group announced in early May after the playoff loss to St. Louis that Wilson would be back as general manager and would make changes to make the team a Stanley Cup contender. Wilson said then that McLel- all charges WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Clemens was acquitted Monday on all charges that he obstructed and lied to Congress in denying he used perfor- mance-enhancing drugs to extend his long career as one of the greatest and most-dec- orated pitchers in baseball history. Clemens acquitted of 6 p.m. ABC 7:05 p.m. CSNB 7:05 p.m. CSNC Best of the best Sports 1B Tuesday June 19, 2012 MCT file photo lan's status was still under review as he wanted to understand what went wrong during the season and give McLellan time to heal from a concussion he suffered after being hit in the head by a stick while on the bench. ''Todd is our coach, has been our Todd McLellan will return as the Sharks head coach next season. Wilson said the major change he coach,'' Wilson said. ''The process we went through there was to look through this past year. Much like players have injuries and you want them to get healthy and get their honest feedback, I'll be honest with you, with Todd, I liked the idea of giving him a little bit of time not just for his emotions but how he's feeling. He took a pretty good whack in the head and he took another a few weeks after that. We used this time really well to under- stand what we need to address, where we need to go and how we'll get there.'' McLellan said he could be mak- ing changes to his staff and had a list of potential assistants he want- ed to interview. Wilson said it may be necessary to add a former NHL player to the staff that had just two assistants last season: Matt Shaw and Jay Woodcroft. bit watching the final three rounds of the playoffs. But he stressed the team needs to improve its penalty killing, a more aggressive forecheck, more shot blocking and a stronger defensive emphasis with- out overhauling the entire system. ''We're aware that we're not chasing a formula,'' he said. ''We have our own formula. That's what we'll continue to do. We'll enhance it, we'll grow it, we'll pull pieces in from other organizations and have our formula and our identity. That's what we'll play to.'' McLellan said he learned quite a worst penalty-kill unit during the regular season and then allowed six goals in 18 power-play chances in five games against the Blues. Wilson was particularly upset that no player retaliated at the start of Game 3 following an end-of- game fight in Game 2 that featured St. Louis' Vladimir Sobotka break- ing San Jose forward Dominic Moore's nose and Blues defense- man Roman Polak pummeling Justin Braun in another fight. ''One of the bigger issues we wanted from the team was going from one that was ''passive and reactive'' to one that would be ''aggressive and proactive'' next season. He believed that many of the problems stemmed from an ineffective penalty killing unit that left players hesitant to play physi- cally or aggressively out of a fear of allowing a power-play goal. The Sharks had the second- month for potential free agent Andrew Murray and a conditional seventh-round draft pick in 2014. ''We try to be fairly proactive if Fierce on the pitching mound in his playing days, Clemens was quietly emo- tional after the verdict was announced. ''I'm very thankful,'' he said, choking up as he spoke. ''It's been a hard five years,'' said the pitcher, who was retried after an earlier prosecution ended in a mistrial. This case was lengthy, there's something we like and we want and think it's a pretty good fit,'' Wilson said. ''To get a left- hand shot guy who is a physical player like him who plays the right way is something we needed. He fits in really well.'' Representatives of the owner- ship group of Sharks Sports & Entertainment also made a rare public appearance Monday with Kevin Compton and Stratton Sclavos acknowledging that the team has been operating under a deficit to achieve the goal of win- ning the Stanley Cup, including about $15 million this past season. ''That's what the whole business but the deliberations were relatively brief. Jurors returned their verdict after less than 10 hours over sev- eral days. The outcome ended a 10-week trial that capped the government's investigation of the pitcher known as ''The Rocket'' for the fastball that he retained into his 40s. He won seven Cy Young Awards, emblem- atic of the league's best pitcher each year in a 24- year career with the Red Sox, Yankees, Blue Jays and Astros. talked about initially was the iden- tity of this hockey team,'' Wilson said. ''We got away from it a little bit the passive, reactive. That's not part of our identity and how we want to play it. There are moments it crept in. How you get that out is going to be addressed by approach, clarification from players how you handle situations and different players.'' Wilson would not confirm a report by TSN that recently acquired defenseman Brad Stuart had agreed to a three-year contract worth $3.6 per season but said he expected a deal to be reached before Stuart was eligible to become an unrestricted free agent July 1. The Sharks acquired Stu- art's rights from Detroit earlier this is about,'' Sclavos said. ''We've been spending to the salary cap every year to put the best team on the ice that we can. In aggregate the performance has been good. But you're only known by your last sea- son by the fans and the media and we're very disappointed in what happened this past year. We're going to take the right steps with Doug and the team to make sure we get a better performance on the ice next year.'' NOTES: Wilson said D Brent Burns (sports hernia) and F Logan Couture (shoulder) had offseason operations and should be 100 percent by training camp. ... The Sharks said the season-ticket renewal rate was about 91 percent, similar to the average 92 percent renewal rate, despite the early playoff exit. blow to the government's legal pursuit of athletes accused of illicit drug use. A seven-year investiga- tion into home run king Barry Bonds yielded a guilty verdict on only one count of obstruction of justice in a San Francisco court last year, with the jury dead- locked on whether Bonds lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs. The verdict was the latest nent investigation of cyclist Lance Armstrong was recently closed with no charges brought, though the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency filed formal accusations last week that could strip the seven-time Tour de France winner of his victories in that storied race. Armstrong denies any doping. A two-year, multiconti-