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Under new head coach Ron Gould, the UC Davis football team sped up the pace in spring practice. With Thursday’s announcement that the Aggies will play Oregon in 2016, picking up the pace sounds like a great idea. That year, UCD will travel to historic Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon for a nonconference game on Sept. 3 […]
Readers of this corner of the newspaper know the story of Davis computer software salesman Joe Taxiera and his baseball hobby turned serious pursuit. Taxiera, a lifelong Giants fan, always wondered how the National Pastime’s great players of different eras stacked up against each other. He knew guys like Hall of Famer Ty Cobb were […]
Sophomore Austin March hit his first career home run in the eighth inning but it wasn’t enough, as the UC Davis baseball team dropped a 10-5 Big West Conference contest to UC Santa Barbara on Thursday afternoon at Dobbins Stadium. Trailing 10-2 in the bottom of the eighth, the Aggies (19-35, 5-20) scored three times […]
ELK GROVE — Davis High sophomore high jumper Kyle Clancy is headed to the CIF state meet next weekend, thanks to an effort of 6-05 on Thursday at the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters meet. Finishing in a fourth-place tie, Clancy’s effort met the California height standard for an at-large berth. The top three finishers in each […]
WEST SACRAMENTO — The Sacramento River Cats answered a pair of New Orleans runs in the top half of the inning by scoring three times in the bottom of the fourth on their way to a 4-2 win over the Zephyrs on Thursday night at Raley Field. Jemile Weeks led off the inning with a […]
LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Quick made 24 saves in his seventh career playoff shutout, and the Los Angeles Kings got within one game of their second straight trip to the Western Conference finals with a 3-0 victory over the San Jose Sharks in Game 5 on Thursday night. Anze Kopitar and Slava Voynov scored, and […]
