Today

The Napa Junior Lacrosse Club opened its inaugural season Saturday as the Force hosted the Novato Lacrosse Club at Redwood Middle School.

Chris Horton, 37, a Napa resident, is training for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in two events, the 400-meter run and 800.

Napa’s fancy feet dominated Thursday evening’s soccer match against non-league rival Justin-Siena at Braves Field.

The St. Apollinaris CYO third-grade boys basketball team took the championship on Sunday, Feb. 25 by beating St. Rose of Santa Rosa 24-19. 

Skill position players — quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends — tend to get a lot of notoriety in Santa Rosa Junior College’s no-huddle, spread offense.

MENDOCINO — The rangy, raw-boned man sweeping the porch of the clapboard-and-shingle Victorian could have been an apparition from the past — one of the keepers fitting in a few chores between trips to the lighthouse every two hours to climb the stairs and rewind the clockwork mechanism that turned the lens.

• San Pablo Dam Reservoir

NISEKO, Japan — American skiers have the Rockies, Europeans the Alps. But for increasingly affluent Asia, Japan’s powdery slopes are emerging as the top international draw from Shanghai to Sydney.