Assemblyman Avelino Valencia's 'Home Run for Anaheim Act' aims to mandate that any new lease or sale of Angel Stadium requires the team to revert to the Anaheim Angels name, reflecting the city's support over the years.
It's time for the CIF state championships in basketball and soccer (first time for soccer) in Sacramento on Friday and Saturday. Basketball will be played at Golden 1 Center. Soccer is at Natomas High.
two seniors from Arroyo Grande High School spoke out against a transgender peer competing on their track and field team and allegedly "watching" them in the girls' locker room. One of the Central Coast students said she is "more comfortable" changing in her car now. The other cited a Bible verse about God creating men and women separately, and accused the California Interscholastic Federation of subjecting girls to "exploitative and intrusive behavior that is disguised through transgender ideology."
Two great Bay Area institutions the San Jose Earthquakes and the Grateful Dead are teaming up for something that should appeal equally to soccer aficionados and classic rock fans. The soccer club is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the birth of the Dead which, for this purpose, is defined by when the band performed for the first time under the Grateful Dead moniker on Dec. 4, 1965 with a brand new themed jersey.
The late Joe Kapp could make that claim. He played two sports at Cal, best known for leading the Bears to their most recent Rose Bowl following the 1958 season. But the man who later quarterbacked the BC Lions to a Canadian Grey Cup championship and the Minnesota Vikings into Super Bowl IV also played hoops for the Bears. He was an All-American in football, a backup guard on the basketball team. Kapp played the 1956-57 and '57-58 seasons, averaging just 1.8 points each season.