Napa Valley Soccer Club tryouts continue Wednesday

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants have a few additions this season, though a couple of them aren’t exactly new.

SAN FRANCISCO — It was back to sunny California weather Thursday afternoon at AT&T Park, and a perfect day for Giants right fielder Moises Alou to hit his 300th career home run.

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MINNEAPOLIS — It’s fun to be a Minnesota starting pitcher, for a change.

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DAVIS -- He is 79 and doesn't move quite as fast as in his salad days, but Sherman Stein still gets around Davis quite nicely, thank you, on his primary mode of transportation -- a rickety, one-speed bicycle.

SEATTLE -- Fifty years ago, fishermen were still shooting at Northwest killer whales they felt were eating too many salmon.

Here are whale-watching guidelines provided by the U.S. and Canadian governments:

PORTLAND, Ore. -- For the straight second year, the spring chinook salmon that normally leap by the thousands up the fish ladders of Bonneville Dam toward spawning grounds are virtually absent.