The transformation of the NFL — and by extension all professional leagues — from sports to entertainment can be seen most clearly in the evolution of the Super Bowl half-time show, now an object of such hype and ridicule. Over its first two decades, the big game’s intermission cleaved to its roots back in the [...]
by Ken Hurst
LeGarrette Blount in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back who helped to beat the San Francisco 49ers last Sunday. He also was the Oregon Ducks running back who punched the Boise State football player after the Boise State team beat Oregon last year. A white Boise State player was taunting Blount, a black player. Blount [...]
by Steve Sparks
The wonderfully successful 2010 Soccer Season is over and all that remains for me to do is to inform you of the team’s individual awards and to express gratitude to our many supporters. At a ceremony held yesterday at the High School gymnasium, the following awards were given out to the Soccer program. League MVP [...]
by Ken Hurst
I think Raiders’ head coach Tom Cable won over his players’ locker room in Napa, in the training camp of ’09 when he busted the jaw of Al Davis’ rat. Then Richard Seymore came to the Raiders from New England and a quality player with class was introduced to the team. Al Davis has stayed [...]
by Steve Sparks
Last Saturday (Nov 13th), on a sunny afternoon at Tom Smith Field in Boonville, two goals in the final breathtaking four minutes of play enabled the Anderson Valley High School Boys Soccer team to secure a deserved victory over Sonoma Academy in the year’s Post-Season Championship Final and thus give the school its first ever [...]
by Steve Sparks
Here we go again. For the sixth year in succession, the AV Panthers are headed for the play-offs where, after receiving a first round bye as a result of their fine efforts in the regular season, they faced Bay School of San Francisco last Saturday afternoon at Tom Smith Field in Boonville for a place [...]
by Steve Talbot
Last Tuesday in San Francisco was one of those days that make you glad to be alive. Sunny, clear skies, low 70s with just a hint of chill in the evening to remind you it’s late October. Today started out beautifully too, but it’s cooler, the skies are darkening and you can feel the rain [...]
by Ken Hurst
Like our Editor who wrote a fine, poignant article in the AVA last week, I, too, am mesmerized by the 2010 SF Giants Baseball Team playing in the World Series against the Texas Rangers. Three reasons I am in love with this year’s team are Giant players Tim Lincecum, Juan Uribe and Buster Posey. Lincecum [...]
by Todd Walton
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.” — Thich Nhat Hanh My maternal grandfather, Myron “Casey” Weinstein, went [...]
by Steve Sparks
Last Monday afternoon (Oct 18th), the team traveled to face the Wolverines of Willits for the final non-league game of the season in what would be a stern test against a team in second place in their own league. Inter-league games are important in deciding postseason rankings for the play-offs at which point all the [...]
