SEATTLE — It’s got to be the roof. That’s as plausible a reason as any for the recently marooned Seattle Mariners being 2-0 for the first time since 1996.

STANFORD — More than three months after being hired to turn around Stanford’s struggling football program, Jim Harbaugh is eager to take his coaching to the field.

GIRDWOOD, Alaska — Ted Ligety couldn’t quite hang on to the slalom national title he held for two years, so he took over the giant slalom instead.

From The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Frank Gore has some big goals to go along with his big new contract with the San Francisco 49ers.

Thanks to the newly formed Napa Valley Baseball Club, historic Cleve Borman Field at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville is taking on a new and improved look.

Today

7 p.m. With just 11 players and no seniors, Napa High’s varsity softball team is on a 10-game win streak that includes six Monticello Empire League victories in as many tries.

The Napa Valley Soccer Club’s Crushers, a girls under-18 Division 1 team in its last year of play, advanced to the State Cup Round of 16 to be played in Morgan Hill April 14.

The Justin-Siena baseball team won a second-place Marin County Athletic League showdown against host Novato on Tuesday, 3-2.

Twenty-seven athletes from the Napa Track Club attended the Santa Rosa Express Sectional Track Meet March 31.

CLEVELAND — Up the ladder she climbed, and when Pat Summitt was within arm’s length of the rim, she clipped the final strand of the net.

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s all business with Bruce Bochy.

SAN FRANCISCO — First-year Giant Barry Zito didn’t get any run support in his five innings on the mound, not did his four successors.

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