Comparing scores among common opponents isn’t a good way to predict college football games. If it was, UC Davis would have been just a couple of touchdowns away from winning the 2005 national championship. You see, the Aggies upset Stanford by three points that year, USC beat the Cardinal by 30 then lost by three […]

* Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a five-part series focusing on the Class of 2012 of the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame. Erin Hartwell has sprinted throughout his medal-filled cycling career. A one-kilometer specialist, the 43-year-old cyclone of spokes will be one of four sport giants inducted into the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame on […]

Emphatically on Thursday, the Davis High girls forced Monterey Trail to scooch over and share the Delta Valley Conference volleyball top spot. In a convincing 25-19, 25-18, 25-15 whitewash on Senior Night at The Cage, the Blue Devils avenged a marathon, five-set loss to the Mustangs on Oct. 9. Both squads now sit at 8-1 […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Long ball one night, a Giant dose of small ball the next. Two wins in two games and suddenly San Francisco doesn’t need to dig itself out of a postseason hole for a change. Madison Bumgarner shut down the Detroit Tigers for seven innings, then the Giants took advantage of a bunt […]

A hundred years ago, growing up in Southern California, World Series time was a different animal. Taking nothing away from the 2012 electronic, 1,000-frames-a-second, all-access media coverage of the Giants-Tigers games, in 1957, the World Series was almost the second coming of Christmas — even though this then-fifth-grader caught only two games on black-and-white television […]