Today

It was a case of good news/bad news on the final weekend of the 2009 regular season for the Napa Valley College baseball team.

Napa High’s Monticello Empire League baseball champions will open the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I North playoffs on Saturday at American River College against Pleasant Grove of Elk Grove at 4:30 p.m.

It was a dark and rainy morning as the first fishermen arrived at Lake Hennessey for the annual George Carl Kids’ Fishing Derby.

Face it, folks, it is far easier to keep track of who has NOT tested positive for "performance enhancing substances," in baseball than it is to keep track of those busted in the Steroids Era.

Maria O’Byrne, a junior at Napa High School and a three-sport athlete for the Indians, has been selected to attend the Naval Academy Summer Seminar program in Annapolis, Md. There were over 16,800 applicants this year and O’Byrne was one of a select group of 2,250 that were chosen.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Reed Sorenson completed a one-day test session at Infineon Raceway on Wednesday.

Riders Mat Mladin and Jamie Hacking enter the Kawasaki AMA Superbike Showdown in Sonoma next weekend atop the AMA Pro Road Racing point standings

Every angler and photographer in Napa County will want to attend the May 14 meeting of the Napa Valley Fly Fishers.

Mike McDaniel of Napa scored a nice tom turkey on a muddy, rainy, early-morning hunt in Gordon Valley with his uncle, Gary McDaniel. His gobbler weighed in at 20.5 pounds, with an 81⁄4-inch beard and 1-inch spurs.

I remember it like it was yesterday, the first time I ever saw a major league baseball field with my own eyes.