NASHVILLE, Tenn. — By keeping their cool, the San Jose Sharks are headed back to the second round of the playoffs.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Rookie Travis Buck hit his first career homer and drove in a career-high five runs to help the Oakland Athletics stretch their winning streak to four games with a 16-4 victory over the Texas Rangers on Friday night.

SACRAMENTO — The Sacramento Kings fired coach Eric Musselman on Friday after just one tumultuous season.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Greg Oden is through with school.

Yesterday would have been my grandma’s 88th birthday.

Vacaville’s baseball team came to town on Friday in hopes of avenging its loss to Napa High earlier this week. No such luck.

Athletes from the Napa Track Club attended a Sectional Qualifying Meet in Novato April 14. Despite cool, cloudy conditions and periods of rain, the young competitors (ages 7-14) had several outstanding performances.

Erika Schmid, a 2005 Vintage High School graduate, competed at the Stanford Invitational track meet on March 30-31 in Palo Alto.

Today

With two knee surgeries down and one coming up this summer, Susan Jackson has had some hurdles to jump over in her high school track and field career.

The St. Helena High School baseball team pounded Upper Lake 11-3 on Friday. Matt Armstrong nabbed the win to give the Saints their first North Central League South I victory.

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