Road-course specialist Boris Said will compete in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma on June 24. This will mark Said’s eighth consecutive NASCAR Cup effort on the road course. He has two top-10 finishes in Cup events at Sonoma since 2000 and has also won Craftsman Truck, Trans-Am and American Le Mans events at Infineon.
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It wasn’t the typical, final at-bat home run that baseball purists dramatize all the time, but Urban’s unlikely method still resulted in a well-earned win nonetheless.Urban’s Jordan Graham scored on a wild pitch thrown by Stuart Hall pitcher Ben Costa in the top of the seventh to cap off a four-run rally, giving the Blues an 8-7 victory over the Knights in both teams’ Bay Counties League West opener at Crocker Amazon Field No. 2.
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It was the scenario USF’s baseball team had dreamed of when assembling one of the nation’s the toughest nonconference schedules — having Oregon State on the ropes, leading 2-1 in the bottom of the ninth, just one strike away from beating the defending national champs.Alas, the Beavers rallied against Dons left-hander Cole Stipovich, scoring two runs with two outs to cap off a three-game sweep of USF that left coach Nino Giarratano’s squad with a disappointing 9-12 record.
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The Northern California Golden Gloves will be held for the 76th time this weekend at Kezar Pavilion, one year removed from a controversy that drove a wedge into the Bay Area boxing community.Last year, two other tournaments based in San Francisco billed themselves as Golden Gloves event, although they were not sanctioned by the official Golden Gloves organization, a nonprofit group with 31 affiliations across the country.
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Thanks to his PODS Championship victory, Mark Calcavecchia has already pretty much locked up a spot in the Masters. But with this being the last week to qualify for the prestigious event, several players are sitting on the bubble and must come through this week in a World Golf Championships event. One is Mark Wilson, who won the Honda Classic the week before Calcavecchia’s victory and is ninth on the PGA Tour money list. The top 10 get invites, so a good performance this week is a must.
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With five weeks in the books and one to go, here’s what we’ve learned at spring training 2007, Cactus League-style.» Sammy Sosa isn’t done. He might not be the Sammy we once loved so much, but a year off seems to have restored his bat speed. And his presence makes the Texas Rangers’ always-stacked lineup look like it just might be able to overcome the club’s annual paucity of pitching.
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New Raiders running back Dominic Rhodes pleaded guilty to reckless driving after prosecutors dropped drunken driving charges against him. The former Colts running back, who had an MVP-type game in Super Bowl XLI against the Bears, was fined $1,000 in exchange for the guilty plea during a brief appearance in Marion County (Ind.) Criminal Court. He was stopped on Feb. 20. Rhodes also was sentenced to 180 days in jail, but 178 were suspended and he received credit for two days.
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Sacramento Kings star Ron Artest faces four misdemeanor charges stemming from a dispute with his wife at home earlier this month. Artest will be arraigned today on charges of battery and corporal injury to a spouse, false imprisonment and dissuading a witness from reporting a crime. Each carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison.
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After leading the Long Beach State men’s basketball team to a 24-8 record, a Big West championship and its first berth to the NCAA Tournament in 12 years, coach Larry Reynolds won’t be returning to the 49ers next season. Reynolds’ contract expired after the 49ers fell to Tennessee in the first round in the tournament. The school has decided not to renew it.
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On a blustery day at Mission High School, Bears girls’ soccer coach Scott Kennedy decided to establish momentum first against Balboa and worry about protecting it later.And in a game pitting two teams who figure to be battling for a spot in the Academic Athletic Association playoffs, the gamble paid off — barely.
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