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Posts published by “Ken Hurst”

Buster Posey & The Collision

How did we all start to ‘luv de guy’ so fast? Buster Posey was a “throwback” kind of guy. He was humble, earnest, and hard working. He looked like a big boy. There was a…

HGH & Vision

A few years ago our fine editor Bruce Anderson and I read the same article in a popular monthly magazine about steroids and competitive amateur bicycle racing. The article was written by a man in…

49ers & The NFL Draft

The way I saw the NFL draft coming down for the SF 49ers was drafting Blaine Gabbert out of Missouri at #7 spot in the first round because Coach Jim Harbaugh has said he was…

Sports Notes: Coach Harbaugh & The NFL Draft

I’m glad the San Francisco 49ers were able to bring Jim Harbaugh to their team as their head coach. Coach Harbaugh certainly displayed his college coaching ability with Stanford. He made Stanford a relevant and…

Sports Notes

In one of the early Sports Notes columns, we boldly predicted that Roger Federer would become the greatest player in the history of the tennis. That was almost ten years ago when Federer was 20…

Sports Notes

Congratulations to both Flick McDonald and Steve Sparks for coaching their respective Girls' Volleyball and Boys' Soccer teams to Championship seasons for the Anderson Valley High School Panthers. Both of these teams are the result…

Sports Notes

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…

Sports Notes

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…

Sports Notes

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…

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