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Sports archive
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Niekro trying to focus on baseball after losing dad Joe in offseason
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Lance Niekro still reaches for the phone to dial his dad, nearly four months after former major league pitcher Joe Niekro died of a brain aneurysm at age 61.
Athletics’ Gaudin knows his role for first time in his career
From The Associated Press
Eager Sosa arrives in Rangers camp
From The Associated Press
Non-Laker Kidd helps beat Kings
From The Associated Press
NFL MVP Tomlinson’s father killed in one-vehicle accident
From The Associated Press
Napa Valley Marathon still taking runners to fill out field
It’s not too late.
Euser last at Tour’s Stage 5 time trials
From The Associated Press
St. Helena’s King gearing up for another Iditarod run
NOTES AND QUOTES for a Saturday in the Napa Valley:
Crushers keep ‘Scaroof’ in hearts in loss to Mustangs
Friday afternoon’s Vintage baseball games were emotional for all six coaches involved — four on the Crushers’ side and two in the Rodriguez dugout.
IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt — Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert’s grueling 4,000 miles.
Sturgeon fishermen enjoying recent success in Napa
• Napa River
Plans under way for endurance horseback ride on Santa Fe Trail
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Rob Phillips still remembers his first horse, a paint named Mickey he got more than 50 years ago. It was the start of a lifelong love affair with horses that’s led to plans for an endurance race over the Santa Fe Trail.
Winter air quality continuing to improve at Yellowstone
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — The air quality at two of the most popular winter spots here continues to improve, a new study finds.
Local tourism:
Inside Napa Valley