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Prep sports Red Bluff Volleyball tryout All participants must obtain paperwork from the RBHS Student Store, have it filled out and have a clearance slip before trying out. 12:45 p.m. CSNB 5:10 p.m. CSNC LATE 5 0 Tracker Tuesday's results Sports RED BLUFF HIGH SCHOOL EVENT Recruiting expert plans visit Jack Renkers, who has been By ANDRE BYIK DN Sports Editor speaking on recruit- ing for about 17 years, will give a pre- sentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21 at Red Bluff High School. The event is free and open to the public. ROYALS 5, A'S 0 Courtesy photo Jack Renkens, presi- dent and CEO of Recruiting Realities, will present a keynote address at 7 p.m Tues- day at the Red Bluff High School auditorium that will focus on what he says high school stu- dents need to know about the recruiting RAIDERS Streater shines in NFL debut in his exhibition debut what the Oakland Raiders have been seeing ever since they signed him as an undraft- ed free agent out of Temple in May. By JOSH DUBOW Associated Press NAPA — Rod Streater showed the rest of the NFL All athletes must wear appropriate athlet- ic clothing and footwear. Coaches: Send your sport information to sports@redbluffdai- lynews.com to have it listed in the Tehama Tracker. ——— Around town Mercy Football The Mercy High School football program will hold a jog-a-thon fundraiser from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m Friday at Vista Middle School. Sign up for the ST Crushers fall baseball team from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. today at Cotton- wood Little League Field (next to Holiday Market on Gas Point Road). Fall Baseball The high-school aged team is aimed toward those not enrolled in a fall sport. There is a $50 regis- tration fee that goes toward player costs. NFL Headsets going digital in new technology wave By ANTONIO GONZALEZ Associated Press SANTA CLARA — Can you hear me now? offensive coordinator Greg Roman felt like he kept asking quarterback Alex Smith on his headset last sea- son. While the NFL's coach-to- quarterback radio connection has been a part of the game for three decades, the most popular sports league has not always been on the cutting edge of technology. "There was one time when I was doing it and it happened to be on the same frequency as an airline in a certain city," Roman said. "And it was a critical situation in the game and all you hear is Southwest pilots talking." That's what San Francisco 49ers Such scenarios might soon be a thing of the past. The NFL is switching from the old analog system coaches used to relay plays to their quarterbacks and launching a network that uses digital technology. The system was tested during the preseason and Pro Bowl last year before getting rolled out in every NFL stadium perma- nently this year. The manufacturer, Nebraska- based Gubser & Schnakenberg LLC, also has designed the headsets to be more user-friendly than the former Telex technology. There's no longer a delay preceded by a beep to wait for the frequency to clear. Instead, coaches now push a button and can talk instantly and with a consistently clearer sound. New York Giants middle line- backers Chase Blackburn and Mark Herzlich took turns wearing the hel- mets — which one defensive player is allowed to wear in addition to the quarterback — connected to new headsets for the first time last week. "There wasn't any of the static in there that you got sometimes," Blackburn said. "With the other system, the coach had to hold down a button for a second or so, and some coaches would start talking just when he held the button down and you would miss half of what he said." began talking to quarterbacks with radios in 1994, miscommunications and mishaps have been an occupa- tional hazard. Vikings offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave will never forget when he was the quarterbacks coach for Atlanta on a November 2008 trip to the Oakland Coliseum. It just so happened that a certain Material Girl was putting on a con- cert that same day at the adjacent Since coaches and coordinators See DIGITAL, page 2B MCT photo Oakland's Jemile Weeks forces the Royals' Alcides Escobar out on Tuesday. A's are shut out for 14th time Guthrie, who struck out a season-high eight, ran his scoreless streak to 15 innings. He has yielded eight hits and struck out 14 in his past two starts, victories over the A's and the Chicago White Sox. Guthrie (5-12) is 2-3 in five starts with the KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jeremy Guthrie allowed only three singles in seven innings, and the Kansas City Royals rolled to a 5-0 win over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night. Royals, who acquired him in a July 20 trade with Colorado for left-hander Jonathan Sanchez. Tim Collins and Greg Holland complet- ed the shutout for Kansas City. Collins struck out all three batters he faced in the eighth inning, boosting his total to 77 — a Royals' strikeout record for a left-handed reliever. The A's failed to get a runner past second base and were shut out for a major league- leading 14th time. Alex Gordon and Eric Hosmer delivered run-scoring singles in the Royals' five-run fifth inning that also featured sacrifice flies by Chris Getz and Billy Butler. Kansas City also scored an unearned run See A's, page 2B Streater caught six passes for 66 yards against the Dallas Cowboys and was one of the few offensive standouts in a 3-0 loss for the Raiders (tied for No. 23 in the AP Pro32) in the first game under new coach Dennis Allen. It was an impressive performance from a player who had only 19 catches as a senior in college and was passed over by all 32 teams in the NFL draft. ''That's the big thing to make plays under the Freshmen tryouts are 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. today. veteran on athletics will give high school stu- dents, parents and coaches a "dose of reali- ty" on the landscape of college recruiting on Tuesday. A 17-year speaking process. "You don't get to pick the school," Renkens said in a phone interview Tuesday. "The school picks you." Renkens said less than 1 percent of stu- dent-athletes play a sport at a Division 1 school, but that there are opportunities to get an education funded through sports below Division 1, and some- times it takes leaving California's sunny cli- mate. He said schools in Minnesota, Colorado See RECRUIT, page 2B 1B Wednesday August 15, 2012 lights,'' Streater said. ''I just wanted to go out there and perform and show these coaches that I can play.'' Streater never got much of a chance to show what he could do in college. He played defensive back and receiver for two years in junior college at Alfred State before transferring to Temple. The Owls weren't much of a throwing team and Streater had just 49 catches in two seasons there, including only 19 his senior season. That was a big reason why he wasn't drafted in April. He said the disappointment from that rejection lasted about an hour. Then his focus turned to where he would sign as a free agent and he was impressed by the depth of interest from the Raiders, who placed many calls to Streater and also talked to his college coach. ''After the draft was over, I just wanted a place to go, have a place to play,'' Streater said. ''This is an opportunity to make it this far, so I felt like if I could just get here, I could make an impact.'' He has done just that, much to the delight of the Raiders, who considered drafting Streater but had just six picks and ended up getting him as a free agent instead. ''You never really know about the draft. It's not a perfect science,'' Allen said. ''But he was a guy that we had on our board and he was a guy that as the draft continued to go on we were looking at where he was at. Unfortunately we weren't able to draft him but for- tunately once we hit free agency and we knew he was- n't drafted he was one of the primary guys we were trying to get.'' Streater drew immediate praise from Allen at the team's rookie minicamp and just continued that kind of performance when he got to play with the top quar- terbacks at OTAs and minicamp. He picked up from there when the team reported to Napa for training camp late last month and has made the most of a hamstring injury that has slowed starter See RAIDERS, page 2B MCT file photo The NFL is moving from analog to digital technology.