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Free basketball clinic to be held Dec. 29 15 Dec 2011 | 08:53 am
A free basketball clinic will be held Dec. 29 at Sonoma Academy High School in Santa Rosa. The classes will be age appropriate, divided into four categories: kindergarten through second grade, third ...
I have never seen anything like this. Never. 11 Nov 2011 | 08:21 am
In all the years I have been covering sports, 1965 I wrote my first story, I have never seen anything to match the repulsiveness of this Penn State sex abusive scandal. I used to think Pete Rose gamb...
Newman grad produces football movie 10 Nov 2011 | 01:56 pm
Marshall Cook, a former quarterback for Cardinal Newman and now a movie producer, will be attending a special screening Thursday at 7:30 of a football movie he directed. It’s entitled “Division III: ...
It felt like a privilege to watch it 22 Oct 2011 | 06:08 pm
Watching Newman and Montgomery Friday night was as close to a perfect reason as I ever can give on why I watch sports. Montgomery supposedly was overmatched, didn’t have a chance and yet it came down ...
It’s a shame Windsor and Newman won’t play this year 10 Oct 2011 | 10:42 am
Clearly they are the two best high school football teams in the area but in different leagues and different divisions. Two good running backs, two good coaches, two teams with superlative high school ...
Al Davis was one of the best things to happen to the NFL. 9 Oct 2011 | 10:41 am
Other than maybe Pete Rozelle, and that’s a maybe, no one had more of an impact on the league than Davis, who died Saturday at the age 82. He was instrumental in bringing the AFL and the NFL together...
Kim Navarro still recovering 7 Oct 2011 | 11:08 am
Kim Navarro, the 1999 El Molino graduate who went on to become a two-time bronze medalist at the U.S. National Ice Skating Champinships, still is mourning over the death of Wade Belak August 31st. Be...
If the Fondo keeps going like this… 6 Oct 2011 | 09:59 am
Santa Rosa or Sonoma County is going to have to name a road after Levi. All big cities have marked their celebrities that way, even if it’s only a block or two of a street. I raised the point with Lev...
El Molino- King for a Day or King for a season? 5 Oct 2011 | 10:42 am
El Molino beat Casa, 20-13, last Friday. It was El Mo’s first over Casa in 14 years. The victory quite logically raised the spirit of not only the players but the students at the school as well. But M...
If this keeps going, Levi is in line for another award 2 Oct 2011 | 03:37 pm
The 2011 GranFondo was a raging success, rider injuries notwithstanding. As this was being written Levi Leipheimer knew a couple of ambulances took injured riders off course to hospitals. “For sure,”...
