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ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Despite a productive training camp and lots of positive feedback, Oakland Raiders running back Jalen Richard spent cut-down day nervously looking at the time as he hoped to avoid a bad news phone call from general manager Reggie McKenzie or coach Jack Del Rio.I was looking at the clock like, `Man, its not 1 oclock yet and Jack and Reggie havent told me, Richard said Tuesday I was like, `No, no, no. I still got to get to 1 oclock. I was still nervous.The deadline passed Saturday and Richard received the good news. Despite being overlooked in the draft back in the spring when 253 other players were drafted, Richard overcame the odds and made the NFL as an undrafted free agent.He had some company on the Raiders, who kept four undrafted rookies in all on their 53-man roster with receiver Johnny Holton, cornerback Antonio Hamilton and defensive lineman Darius Latham also making the team. Oakland has 13 players in all on its 53-man roster who werent drafted by any team.I called mom and teared up, mom and dad, Richard said. I had to call them. Everybody has a story. I come from Alexandria, (Louisiana), small town, not a lot of people make it out of the city.Making it even sweeter is that Richards first game as a pro will come in his home state of Louisiana when the Raiders visit the New Orleans Saints. Richard said he has been overwhelmed already by ticket requests and will plan to get as many as he can for his closest family members.This will mark the first time Richard has been in the Superdome or at a regular-season NFL game.While Richard had a good inkling he would make the team after performing well in the final two preseason games and drawing frequent praise from coaches for his practice play, the news came as a bit of a shock to Hamilton.He was hoping just to make the practice squad when director of player development Lamonte Winston delivered the good news after the deadline passed Saturday.I was overwhelmed, he said. I just broke down in tears. Me coming from the place I came from, South Carolina State, small school. ... A lot of us we dont come in and actually make the 53 right away. Im very humble, very grateful to have made it.Holton also overcame long odds to make the roster. Holton got his chance to play in junior college after being spotted by a coach playing flag football in a park.After two seasons at College of DuPage in Illinois, Holton played his final two years of college at Cincinnati. When he had a couple of options on where to sign as an undrafted free agent, Holton picked the Raiders because he grew up as friends with star Oakland receiver Amari Cooper.Its not where you start, its how you finish, Holton said. Im thankful for all of that and ready to move forward.Latham, a defensive tackle out of Indiana, made an immediate impression on the Raiders and is expected to be part of the rotation at a defensive line position that is missing injured starter Mario Edwards Jr. for at least the first half of the season.Game notes QB Derek Carr, C Rodney Hudson, LB Khalil Mack and S Reggie Nelson were named captains for the team. ... 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Tahitian surfer Michel Bourez has claimed his first Pipe Masters title, closing out the season by beating American rookie Kanoa Igarashi in the final.It was an unlikely final match-up, with Bourez upsetting world champion John John Florence earlier on Tuesday (AEDT) in the quarter-finals.Igarashi also claimed the massive scalp of 11-time world champion and seven-time Pipe Master winner Kelly Slater with a last-ditch semi-final win.Josh Kerr was the only Australian heat winner on a busy last day of competition when he took out his fourth-round contest.But Kerr was eliminated in the quarter-finals, while former world champion Joel Parkinson and newcomer Ryan Callinan had earlier bowed out in the fifth round.While Florence remains without a Pipe Masters title at his home break on the North Shore, by reaching the quarter-finals at Banzai Pipeline he claimed another win.The newly-crowned world champions result on Tuesday gave him the Hawaiian Triple Crown for the third time.It was also the only title for Bourez this year on the world tour and the first time he has taken out the Pipe Masters.Bourez was in disbeliief after the final, having come back from a badly-broken hand suffered in a wipeout last year at the feared Teahupoo break.ddddddddddddIt was really tricky and tough for me to come back. I almost dropped off tour, he said.I worked really hard at home and tried to stay positive the whole time ... this is huge for me.Bourez, now a three-time winner on the world tour, also relished dispatching Florence in the quarters.John is incredible - Ive lost the Triple Crown twice because of him so that was a little payback, he said.This is the biggest event to win for a surfer and I did it.It was a banner day as well for Igarashi, who starred in his Pipe Masters debut.The 19-year-old is the youngest surfer on the mens tour, but he kept his nerve to beat Slater in their semi.The surfing legend led throughout, before Igarashi nailed a 8.83 wave score in the last 30 seconds to beat him by just 0.5.Its his first time in the Pipe Masters and hes made the final, which is pretty sick, Slater said. ' ' '