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For two-and-a-half quarters, the Wilcox Football team (5-5, 4-2) traded scores with the Los Gatos Wildcats (6-3, 5-0). Neither team punted, nor turned the ball over (in any fashion) on the first eight drives combined. That is until a controversial ball spot ended Wilcox’s fifth drive. Down 29-22 with four minutes remaining in the third … Read more
Thursday’s final score reads 3-0, (25-22, 25-11, 26-24), but that doesn’t begin to tell the story of the Santa Clara High School girls volleyball team. The 2016 Bruins lost their season finale to the Fremont Firebirds, but with head coach Megan Morse-Quevedo and star sophomore Fiona Paul, the program is in good hands. Despite being … Read more
There are many football bowl games. But there’s one bowl where everyone’s a winner. It’s the San Francisco 49ers Foundation’s annual Pasta Bowl charity dinner. Now in its tenth year, the event brings together fans and the entire 49ers organization to raise money for the team’s charitable mission of keeping kids “safe, on track and … Read more
Veronica Cashman has coached players from ages 4 to 18 at the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League (SCYSL) for about eight years. Her four year-old son, a member of a league’s recreation team, Little Leos, just played his first game. Her nine year-old daughter was also part of the recreation program and has since transitioned … Read more
Fundraisers come in all shapes and sizes supporting all sorts of worthy causes. Some fundraisers take the form of games of chance, others are sit-down dinners while others go a different route by putting on a show. That is what Synchronized Swimming for Athletes With Disabilities (Synchro AWD), a local non-profit did on August 28 … Read more
Soccer players at the 2016 Deaf World Cup weren’t allowed to wear hearing aids during games to prevent players from having unfair advantages over others. From June 19 to July 2 in Salerno, Italy, local women Danielle Wheeler, 17, and Meghan Maiwald, 26, represented deaf American women soccer players and played at the 2016 Deaf … Read more
Story and photo by John Harvie Santa Clara Pony Baseball’s Pony Division All-Stars, 14u, will represent Northern California in the West Zone Tournament down in West Covina, CA. next week. The Pony Division All-Stars just captured the NorCal Super Region tournament flag this week, which was played in Mountain View. The team went undefeated in … Read more
Almost 600 martial arts students, instructors, masters and grand masters from across the nation paraded into the San Jose City College football stadium on June 25 for the greatest master black belt test and display of martial arts skills in the 38-year history of the Ernie Reyes West Coast Martial Arts Association (WCMAA), headquartered in … Read more
The George F. Haines International Swim Center in Santa Clara, was the place to be for swimmers and their fans for the weekend of June 3 – 5 as the 2015-16 Arena Pro Swim Series returned to Northern California. Swimmers from around the world came to Santa Clara to compete. Pictured here is Ryan Cochrane … Read more
My shirt was drenched in sweat and covered in dirt. My legs could barely support the weight of my body. I was counting down the minutes until I finally got to sit down and eat. It had probably been five or six hours since my last meal. That was when I looked over to my … Read more