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Tehama Tracker Thursday's results MLB N.Y. Mets Giants Cabrera: 3-4, 2B, 3B, run Pence: 0-2, walk, RBI Toronto Athletics LATE Today's games MLB Giants Colorado SF— Vogelsong, 8-5 COL— J.Sanchez, 0-2 Toronto Athletics TOR— Cecil, 2-4 OAK— Blackley, 3-3 On the tube AUTO RACING • 9 a.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Pennsylvania 400, at Long Pond, Pa. • 12:30 p.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, ''Happy Hour Series,'' final practice for Pennsylvania 400, at Long Pond, Pa. BOXING •7 p.m., ESPN2 — Lightweights, Mer- cito Gesta (25-0-1) vs.Ty Barnett (20-2- 1), at Las Vegas GOLF •7 a.m., TGC — Web.com Tour, Cox Classic, second round, at Omaha, Neb. •9 a.m., TGC — Champions Tour, 3M Championship, first round, at Blaine, Minn. • 11 a.m., TGC — PGA Tour-WGC Bridgestone Invitational, second round, at Akron, Ohio • 3:30 p.m., TGC — PGA Tour, Reno- Tahoe Open, second round, at Reno, Nev. MLB •4 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, Cleveland at Detroit or Seattle at N.Y. Yankees • 5:30 p.m., CSNB — San Francisco at Colorado •7 p.m., CSNC—Toronto at Oakland •7 p.m., WGN — Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers OLYMPICS •1 a.m., NBCSN — LIVE: women's soccer, quarterfinals; women's basket- ball, United States vs. Czech Republic; beach volleyball; women's volleyball, Brazil vs. China; DELAYED TAPE: box- ing; men's archery, individual Gold Medal final; men's shooting: 50m prone rifle Gold Medal final, rapid fire pistol, at London •1 a.m., NBC BASKETBALL — Women's: United States vs. Czech Republic, Russia vs. Australia, Brazil vs. Canada, Angola vs. Croatia, Turkey vs. China, France vs. Britain, at London •4 a.m., BRAVO — Tennis: singles and mixed doubles semifinals, at London •4 a.m., NBC SOCCER — Women's soccer, quarterfinals, at various sites •6 a.m., MSNBC — LIVE: men's gym- nastics, trampoline; women's water polo: LIVE: Russia vs.Australia, SAME- DAY TAPE: Spain vs. Hungary; weightlifting, Gold Medal finals: men's 85kg, women's 75kg; LIVE: women's handball, Denmark vs. Norway; SAME- DAY TAPE: equestrian, dressage; bad- minton: men's and women's singles semifinals, mixed doubles Gold Medal final; team table tennis, at London •6 a.m., TELEMUNDO — Swimming; track and field; women's volleyball; ten- nis, singles semifinals; beach volley- ball; boxing, at London (same-day tape) • 10 a.m., NBC — SAME-DAY TAPE: swimming; track and field: LIVE: women's 10,000m Gold Medal final, SAME-DAY TAPE: qualifying rounds; LIVE: beach volleyball; women's water polo, United States vs. China; SAME- DAY TAPE: rowing, Gold Medal final, at London •2 p.m., CNBC — Boxing, at London (same-day tape) •8 p.m., NBC — Swimming, Gold Medal finals: men's 100m butterfly, men's 50m freestyle, women's 200m backstroke, women's 800m freestyle; track and field, men's shot put Gold Medal final; women's diving, spring- board; women's volleyball, United States vs. Serbia; men's gymnastics, trampoline Gold Medal final, at London (same-day tape) •9 p.m., TELEMUNDO — Swimming, Gold Medal finals; track and field, Gold Medal final; women's diving, spring- board, at London (same-day tape) • 12:35 a.m., NBC — Track and field; cycling, track Gold Medal finals, at Lon- don (delayed tape) SOCCER •5 p.m., NBCSN — MLS, New York at Houston TENNIS •2 p.m., ESPN2 — ATP World Tour, Citi Open, quarterfinals, at Washington Prep practices day, Aug. 6. All players need to bring cleats, a white shirt and an Ath- letic Clearance slip from the RBHS Student Store. Varsity: 6 a.m. JV: 7:30 a.m. Freshman: 8 a.m. Red Bluff •Football Practice begins Mon- if you'd like to list your practice start days and times in the Tehama Tracker email: sports@ High School coaches redbluffdailynews.com. SANTA CLARA (AP) — Brandon Jacobs never broaches the subject with his new San Francisco 49ers teammates unless he's asked. DAILYNEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 ally like his answers. The 49ers have been fueled during training camp by January's 20-17 overtime loss in the NFC title game to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants. Just not Jacobs or Mario After all, they don't usu- 7:05 p.m. CSNC 5:40 p.m. CSNB 1 9 Sports LONDON (AP) — Michael Phelps spent the day thinking about all the things he's doing for the final time at the pool. It turns out that included one last win over Ryan Lochte. own at his final Olympics. Adding to an already unprece- dented medal collection, he claimed his first individual victory of the London Games and handed Lochte a double disappointment on his rival's final night in the pool Thurs- day. Phelps finally got a gold all his Phelps set the tone right from the start with a dominating butterfly leg to become the first male swimmer to win the same individual event at three straight Olympics in the 200- meter individual medley. He claimed his 20th career medal — and 16th gold — in 1 minute, 54.27 seconds, just off his winning time in Beijing but still good enough for gold, ahead of Lochte. When it was done, there wasn't that water-pounding celebration we've seen so many times from Phelps — just a slight smile as he hung on the lane rope, gazing up at the stands and soaking it all in. "Going into every call room, I said it's my last semifinal or my last prelim," Phelps said, reflecting on a busy day that included a morning swim, then two more races in the evening. "We're kind of chalking up all the lasts of certain things." As he powered to the wall, his mom Debbie screamed, "Go! Go! Go!" When Phelps touched first, she dropped her head, kissed her two daughters — both former swimmers — and let the tears flow. When Phelps stepped on the medal podium — yep, that familiar top rung — his eyes were glassy and he whispered a joke to Lochte, try- Douglas wins all-around title 1B Friday August 3, 2012 Phelps beats Lochte in 200 IM MCT photo Michael Phelps leads Ryan Lochte Thursday during the breaststroke of the 200-medley. ing to keep the moment light. Then, staring up at the U.S. flag while the national anthem played, Phelps bit his lip and seemed to be struggling to hold back his own tears. "Once it's all over, it's going to See PHELPS, page 2B Giants slide continues MCT photo LONDON (AP) — Just 14, Gabby Douglas pleaded with her mother to let her move cross country, certain a new coach could help her get to the Olympics. Not two years after setting out on Gabby Douglas performs on the beam Thursday during the women's all-around gymnastics event. Komova's floor routine was impres- her own, Douglas beat Russia's Vikto- ria Komova for the all-around title Thursday night, becoming the third straight U.S. athlete to win gymnastics' biggest prize and the first African- American to do so. It was her second gold medal of the London Games, coming two nights after she and her "Fierce Five" teammates gave the Unit- ed States its first Olympic title since 1996. "It feels amazing to be the Olympic champion," Douglas said. Puts her in a special category, too. Mary Lou Retton, Carly Patterson and Nastia Liukin are the only other Amer- icans to win the Olympic all-around gold. The Americans have been looking for their "next Mary Lou" since she won in 1984, and now they've got her in the 16-year-old Douglas. Throw in her adorable "Flying Squirrel" nick- name and sweet backstory, and Dou- glas' two gold medals certainly won't be her only riches. "I haven't thought about that," Dou- glas said. "I just wanted to seize the moment. You have to learn how to enjoy the moment." Her smile alone is enough to dazzle Madison Avenue, and her personality is bigger than she is. She's even managed to make Oprah Winfrey cry. Douglas had barely gotten off the medals stand when the talk show maven said on Twitter that she was "so THRILLED for Gabby. Flow- ing happy tears!!" Coach Liang Chow told Douglas the gold was hers after an electrifying floor routine, but she had to wait anoth- er five minutes until it was official. That's because Komova, runner-up at last year's world championships, was still to come. Manningham. The two former Giants helped hand San Francisco that devastating defeat at Candlestick Park, creating an odd dynamic now for the franchise's newest additions. ''You try not to talk about it so much,'' Jacobs said. ''I know that's a dagger in some guys' hearts, because it'd be a dagger in mine, so I try not to ever bring it up.'' The awkward moments are often unavoidable. On Thursday morning, Jacobs sat at a desk in a run- ning backs meeting room when Frank Gore started to sive, as well. Finished, she stood at the center of the arena staring intently at the scoreboard, fingertips pressed to her lips, teammate Aliya Mustafina rubbing her shoulder. When the final standings flashed, Komova dropped her head and headed to the sidelines, tears falling. Mustafina and Aly Raisman fin- ished with identical scores of 59.566, but the Russian got the bronze on a tiebreak. The lowest scores for both gymnasts were dropped, and the remaining three were totaled. That gave Mustafina a total of 45.933 and Raisman 45.366. "I'm still upset because I could have been gold and I didn't get it," said Komova, her silver medal buried in the pocket of her warm-up jacket. Douglas, meanwhile, was grinning SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Buster Posey has a six-game hitting streak, the only Giants batter who has hit safely in more than two straight games. He was on the bench Thursday when San Francisco lost its sev- enth in eight games, a 9-1 rout by the New York Mets. ''A lot of times when you think you are going into a rut, you try to press and do too much,'' Giants starter Barry Zito said. ''That's when you get farther in it. As a team, we have to trust our- selves. We've been on top most of the season and we just have to be ourselves.'' The Giants have been held to one run or less in four of their last eight games, and have three or fewer in six of them. They are hitting .164 (9 for 55) with runners in scoring position over that span, and have stranded 49 runners. The Giants have only hit two home runs at home since hitting two from June 26-29. ''We've been awful here this last week,'' Giants man- ager Bruce Bochy said. ''We're in a rut right now and it's not fun. We have to get it going. Hopefully we can hit the road and get it going again.'' New York took a 4-0 lead against Zito (8-8) in the first on Jason Bay's two-run sin- gle and Ronny Cedeno's two-run double. Chris Young took care of the rest. Cedeno drove in five runs. ear to ear. Up in the stands, her mother, Natalie Hawkins, embraced her chil- dren and then shared a long hug with See GABBY, page 2B speak about the NFC title game and the pain that fol- lowed. Jacobs just stayed quiet. ''You can hear it in his voice. Guys are angry,'' Jacobs said. ''I'd be angry as well, no question about it.'' Other times the conversa- tions are no accident. Jacobs said 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh still disputes the fumble by New York's Ahmad Brooks late in the fourth quarter that officials reversed on the basis that the running back's forward progress had been stopped. Even now, Harbaugh often harasses Jacobs — maybe only half-kidding — about the call, which likely would've led to a 49ers vic- tory in regulation. Hunter Pence had a fourth-inning sacrifice fly for San Francisco, which has lost seven of eight since opening a three-game NL lead over the Dodgers on July 25. Ex-Giants Jacobs, Manningham try to fit with 49ers don't feel bad for you,''' Jacobs said. No matter what Har- baugh or anybody else with the 49ers (No. 4 in the AP Pro32) throws at Jacobs, the burly running back responds the same way. ''I told him, 'Coach, I Harbaugh confirmed he often has conversations with Jacobs and Manningham about the game, declining to reveal his specific responses. Instead, he'll settle for two talented players who have something he never won as an NFL quarterback: a Super Bowl ring. ''That experience is valu- able,'' Harbaugh said. ''I don't know how much or not, but those are members of our team now and they have been this entire offsea- son. We think we're a better football team with those two men on our side and we're excited about it.'' Fitting in with the 49ers has otherwise been a smooth See 49ERS, page 2B