The sixth annual Sheldon-Trail Summer Jam, Northern California's largest high school boys basketball tournament featuring 60 teams, tips off Friday with 170 games scheduled at Sheldon, Monterey Trail and Elk Grove high schools and Smedberg Middle School.

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SANTA CLARA - Veteran NFL players rarely get to leave the sport on their own terms. Justin Smith will do just that after signing a two-year contract extension Wednesday that keeps him in a 49ers uniform through the 2015 season.

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Ailene Voisin Chase Tapley shrugs. He has no illusions about his prospects in the upcoming NBA draft. He smiles. He has no problem with the possibility of playing overseas. He laughs. He anticipates auditioning again next month at the Las Vegas Summer League and pushing, again and again, for the upset.
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