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Tehama Tracker Thursday's result MLB Athletics Kansas City OAK — Weeks 1-3, 1 RBI KC — Hosmer, 2-2 Today's games MLB Cleveland Athletics CLE — McAllister, 5-4 OAK — Milone, 9-9 Giants San Diego SF — Cain, 11-5 SD — Ohlendorf, 4-3 On the tube AUTO RACING • 9:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Pure Michigan 400, at Brooklyn, Mich. • 11 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, final practice for VFW 200, at Brooklyn, Mich. • 1 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Pure Michigan 400, at Brooklyn, Mich. BOXING • 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Junior mid- dleweights, Damian Frias (19-4-1) vs. Carlos Molina (19-5-2), at Miami, Okla. GOLF • 9:30 a.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Dick's Sporting Goods Open, first round, at Endicott, N.Y. • Noon TGC — PGA Tour, Wyndham Championship, second round, at Greensboro, N.C. • 3:30 p.m. TGC — LPGA, Safeway Classic, first round, at North Plains, Ore. • 5:30 p.m.TGC — USGA, U.S. Ama- teur Championship, quarterfinal matches, at Cherry Hills Village, Colo. (same-day tape) LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL • 10 a.m.ESPN — World Series, Van- couver, British Columbia vs. Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, at South Williamsport, Pa. • Noon ESPN — World Series, Par- sippany, N.J. vs. San Antonio, at South Williamsport, Pa. • 2 p.m. ESPN2 — World Series, Lugazi, Uganda vs. Aguadulce, Pana- ma, at South Williamsport, Pa. • 5 p.m. ESPN — World Series, Gre- sham, Ore. vs. New Castle, Ind., at South Williamsport, Pa. MLB • 4 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Boston at N.Y. Yankees or Texas at Toronto WGN — Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati NFL • 5 p.m. FOX — Preseason, Detroit at Baltimore TENNIS • 8 a.m. ESPN2 — ATP World Tour, Western & Southern Open, quarterfi- nals, at Mason, Ohio • 4 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP World Tour, Western & Southern Open, quarterfi- nal, at Mason, Ohio Around town The North Valley Rapids ASA girls' softball club will be holding tryouts for the 2012 Fall 12-U and 14-U travel teams from 10 a.m. to noon Aug 25 at Big League Dreams. Visit www.north- Mercy Football The Mercy High School football pro- gram will hold a jog- a-thon fundraiser from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. today at Sacred Heart Parish School. Softball valleyrapids.com. For additional information, contact Richard Walker (14- U) at richsgirls4@yahoo.co m, 945-7379 or Den- nis Cahill (12-U) at teamcahill@hotmail.c om, 515-8859. RAIDERS Kelly likes what he sees from defense NAPA (AP) — Tommy Kelly needed only one preseason game to become convinced Oakland's defense is already vastly improved from a year ago. The veteran defensive tackle has fully embraced the changes made by first-year coach Dennis Allen and defensive coordinator Jason Tarver and said he expects the Raiders (tied for No. 23 in the AP Pro32) to have one of the top five defenses in the NFL in 2012. ''Most definitely,'' Kelly said fol- lowing practice Thursday. ''(If) we cut down on the mental errors and the penalties, man, people are going to have a hard time dealing with us.'' That might be asking a bit much from a team that ranked 29th in over- all defense and surrendered the sec- ond-most touchdowns in the league last season. off to an encouraging start in the 3-0 loss to Dallas on Monday, allowing only three yards rushing in two series. Kelly also sacked quarterback Tony Romo for a 12-yard loss to force the Cowboys into a third-and-24 before they punted. Kelly likes what he's seen so far. ''It's the first time in nine years we A small sampling, to be sure, but Then again, Kelly has been defying odds since he entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie in 2004. A Pro Bowl alternate each of the past two seasons, Kelly has developed Friday, their second preseason game in five days, but will be without start- ing free safety Michael Huff, who will be attending the birth of his first child. Oakland will also be minus outside ever looked that good tackling in the first game of the preseason,'' Kelly said. ''So whatever they're doing must be working. We look a lot better.'' The Raiders play in Arizona on linebacker Aaron Curry, who has been in Los Angeles for nearly a week into a player who Allen believes can be one of the game's premier defen- sive tackles. Allen is counting on the 6-foot-6, 300-pounder to help anchor Oakland's front four. The Raiders' first-team defense got undergoing treatment on his knees. Curry has not practiced at all this camp and remains on the active-phys- ically unable to perform list. Allen hasn't ruled out Curry returning in time to play in the Raiders season opener Sept. 10 but acknowl- edged time is starting to run out. All of Oakland's starters will take increased reps against Arizona, a nor- mal progression for NFL teams in the preseason. Kelly, for one, is looking forward to it. After missing the offseason work- outs last season because of the lock- out, the 31-year-old spent the year bat- tling a variety of nagging injuries yet still had a career-high 7 1/2 sacks and recorded his first NFL interception. ''It was always hurry-up mode,'' he said. ''Going the whole offseason without any contact I had more prob- lems with my body last year than I ever had in my career. But I made it through the year, so that's all that mat- ters." 7:05 p.m. CSNB 7:05 p.m. CSNC 3 2 GOLF Repeat Champions Sports Courtesy photo Wilcox Oaks Women's Club Golf Association members Loretta Rahn and Beth Pilger defended their Cameron Cup title win last week at the Cameron Cup Tournament.Captain Rahn and Co-captain Pilger com- peted against their counterparts from the North Valley and River Valley areas in the two-person,one best ball format. Rahn and Pilger finished with a score of net 66 and ended up in a three-way tie with two other clubs. Officials went back to the scorecards, hole by hole, and Rahn and Pilger were declared the winners. A'S 3, ROYALS 0 Straily wins first MLB game KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Coco Crisp and Yoenis Cespedes home- red, and Dan Straily picked up his first major league victory as the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 3-0 on Thursday night. Crisp, who played for with a 6.52 ERA in nine career starts against Oak- land. the Royals in 2009, was 2 for 27 this season against Kansas City before the home run. Crisp drilled a 2-0 pitch from Luke Hochevar deep to right. The ball hit high off a green wall beyond the fence and caromed back onto the field. It was first ruled a double, but man- ager Bob Melvin disput- ed that. After the umpires viewed replays, it was changed to a home run. Straily (1-0), a 24th- round draft pick in 2009, held the Royals to three singles over 6 1-3 innings in his third major league start. Straily, who walked two and struck out two, pitched out of a bases loaded jam in the second inning. Hochevar (7-11) gave up three runs and four hits in seven-plus innings. Hochevar is 0-8 MCT photo Oakland's Jemile Weeks connects on an RBI double. bunt single in the fourth inning by Josh Reddick before Crisp's home run. The Royals loaded the bases on a single by Sal- vador Perez and walks to Mike Moustakas and Eric Hosmer. Chris Getz grounded out to first baseman Chris Carter to end the inning. The A's had only a 1B Friday August 17, 2012 GIANTS Cabrera ban was 'deflating,' GM says SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Giants general manager Brian Sabean insists his club's two suspended veter- an players should have known better than to use performance-enhancing drugs. A day after outfielder and All-Star game MVP Melky Cabrera received a 50-game suspension for a positive testosterone test, Sabean said Thursday he was shocked when he received word of the sus- pension from Major League Baseball on Wednesday morning, not long before San Francisco's series finale against the Washington Nationals. Manager Bruce Bochy broke the news to his team about 90 minutes before first pitch. ''I was so taken aback it Cespedes, who is hit- ting .368 since the All- Star break, hit his 15th home run on an 0-2 pitch from Hochevar in the seventh. The Royals loaded the bases again in the seventh with singles by Billy But- ler, Moustakas and Hos- mer. Jerry Blevins, the third Oakland pitcher of the inning, retired Getz on a fly ball to shallow center on the first pitch. Grant Balfour worked a spotless ninth to log his ninth save in 11 opportu- nities. The A's added a run in the eighth when Jemile Weeks' two-out single scored Derek Norris, who led off the inning with a single and stole second. was deflating,'' Sabean said. ''I was actually in the meeting with Bruce when he talked to the players and I kind of got emotional because I didn't see some- thing like this coming. We've all been around this game a long time. You get used to making changes and adjustments. Things happen out of left field, a lot like life, and this was one of those things you're punched in the stomach with. But you've got no choice but to figure out how to move on.'' The Giants — who trailed the Dodgers by one game in the NL West head- ing into Thursday's off day — will continue to work to educate players regarding the major league drug pro- gram. ''In our case, it's two vet- eran players who should know the policy and should know the consequences and should know better,'' Sabean said on a conference call. ''We follow the lead of Major League Baseball, and they do have a program in place, along with the union. I think our staff has been very diligent and has bent over backwards.'' Gregor Blanco will move into the regular role as left fielder in place of Cabrera, who joins reliever and teammate Guillermo Mota as two of the four big leaguers suspended this sea- son. San Francisco is calling up right-hander Eric Hacker and outfielder Justin Christ- ian ahead of a weekend series at San Diego. MCT file photo Defensive tackle Tommy Kelly is embracing change.