Next week’s Longs Drugs Challenge at Blackhawk Country Club in Danville will feature a very strong field, led by Lorena Ochoa, the No. 1-ranked women’s golfer in the world and this year’s leading money winner on the LPGA Tour.

With libero Marlee Davis out with a sprained left knee and backup defensive specialist Noelle Pahk out sick, Vintage had to move to Plan C on Thursday night.

Napa High’s girls water polo team rolled over Fairfield for the first time on Tuesday afternoon.

As the baseball season of 2007 winds down, a confluence of events suddenly gave me pause to wonder — whatever happened to baseball’s marvelous and colorful nicknames?

Napa’s Chris Lyman out-sprinted Corte Madera’s Hans Gouwens for the victory on Tuesday night at Infineon Raceway in the season finale for the Summer Twilight Cycling Series.

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