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Patrick Henry High School freshman ready for Augusta debut
When Zadie Posternack lines up alongside 79 other junior golfers at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday morning for the Golf Channel-televised Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals, even some...
Hirsch wins huge one at home track at Del Mar
In August 2020, thoroughbred owner Bo Hirsch entered one of his prized horses, a filly named Ce Ce, in the Del Mar Grade I race he covets more than any...
Hirsch wins huge one at home track at Del Mar
In August 2020, thoroughbred owner Bo Hirsch entered one of his prized horses, a filly named Ce Ce, in the Del Mar Grade I race he covets more than any...
Breeders’ Cup notes: Wellman, partners live it up after Aloha West win
DEL MAR — After each Breeders’ Cup race at Del Mar over the weekend, the winning horse’s connections were escorted to a room on the turf club side of the grandstand that...
Hirsch wins huge one at home track at Del Mar
DEL MAR — In August 2020, thoroughbred owner Bo Hirsch entered one of his prized horses, a filly named Ce Ce, in the Del Mar Grade I race he covets more than...
Erroneous scratch angers bettors at Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar
DEL MAR — The first day of the 2021 Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar ended in bizarre fashion Friday, with fans lustily raining boos down on the track in quickly fading light.The...
Breeders’ Cup notes: Echo Zulu lives up to lofty billing
DEL MAR — Horsemen are decidedly prone less to hyperbole than to understatement. They can be a superstitious lot, careful not to brag, lest the racing gods strike lightning upon them the...
Padres ‘Mystery Ball’ is confusing to the Max
The Padres “Mystery Ball” turned out to be more of a puzzle than Olivia Hops could ever have imagined.The 25-year-old from Hidden Meadows in Escondido got hooked on the Padres...
Sockers have unlikely shot for MASL championship
It has been eight years since the San Diego Sockers last won a championship — a long, frustrating dry spell for a franchise that raised 14 title banners through several...
Ready or not, Sockers start season
Decision day in the Major Arena Soccer League was fast approaching, and the management of the Sockers was in a tough spot. With virtually no chance that the San Diego...
How San Diego’s non-major pro sports teams are dealing with COVID-19 pandemic
For two decades, Matt Savant has lived on his own internal “hockey clock.” An avid hockey player, he started in an entry-level job with the Anaheim Ducks in the early...
Loyal soccer team shows off uniforms, readies for inaugural season
The uniform colors are temporary. The San Diego Loyal insist they are here for the long haul.On Thursday night, the city’s newest professional team threw a party to unveil the...
Column: Your ‘Golf Guy’ bids farewell from a sports beat like no other
It was a Wednesday in late January of 2009, and I stood on the slope to the right of the 18th green on the Torrey Pines South Course.As the golfers...
In renewal of old rivalry, Sockers dominate Baltimore Blast
There was a sweet and sour mix to the nostalgia of Wednesday night’s indoor soccer matchup at Pechanga Arena San Diego.The Baltimore Blast were visiting the Sockers, and for anybody...
Judy Sweet blazed trails for women’s athletics at UC San Diego and NCAA
Judy Sweet is far too modest to call it her wall of fame, but anybody else would.In the hallway of her spacious Clairemont home, with its gorgeous views of Mission...
Legion, Nonu open MLR season with explosive win over Seattle
It was a highlight so good, so indicative of what the San Diego Legion might be able to do in attack this season, other teams in Major League Rugby might...
Surfing star Machado’s career, life defined by a high-five
It’s a high-five the surfing world will never forget.At 21 years old, San Diegan Rob Machado had a shot at capturing his first professional world title. In the 1995 Pipeline...
Heartbroken by finals loss, Legion rugby gets rematch in opener vs. Seattle
Losses don’t come more brutally than this.On Father’s Day 2019, in front of a packed and raucous home crowd at Torero Stadium, the San Diego Legion of Major League Rugby...
San Diego Legion begins season with rugby legend Ma’a Nonu of New Zealand World Cup fame
Pele did it for the North American Soccer League in the late 1970s, the aging icon coming to America and the New York Cosmos to put eyeballs on a sport...
Loyal soccer team taking shape at Chula Vista training center
CHULA VISTA — For a 15-year-old boy who just wanted to get his foot on a soccer ball, it was a long trek in the car from Redlands to the eastern reaches...
Leishman rolls to Farmers Open victory with a day of hot putting
On the practice putting greens of Torrey Pines early in the week of the Farmers Insurance Open, Marc Leishman’s thoughts turned to, of all places, Malaysia.Fifteen months ago, the 36-year-old...
Leishman’s Farmers Open win felt like a family affair to San Diego’s Coe clan
Pete and Linda Coe couldn’t have been more nervous if it was their own son trying to win the Farmers Insurance Open.At home in Olivenhain on Sunday afternoon, they didn’t...
In his adopted hometown, Rahm has shot at second Farmers Open title
It’s becoming more than a warm-and-fuzzy story about a Spaniard who fell in love with a woman, and then a city.Jon Rahm has adopted San Diego as his third hometown,...
Woods can’t stoke hot start, needs strange twist to win in Farmers
It was something of a mirage, Tiger Woods’ early charge in the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open on Saturday.Going off 11 groups in front of the threesome of...
Brandt Snedeker has become affable menace at Torrey Pines
As a young man from the South who attended Vanderbilt, Brandt Snedeker had virtually no experience with poa annua grass on greens when he first played at Torrey Pines.But in...
Ryan Palmer scorches Torrey North for 62 to take two-shot lead in Farmers Open
In the renovation of the Torrey Pines North Course a few years ago, a nice addition was mounding behind the 18th green that provides a stadium effect for spectators.Fans took...
Last-minute equipment changes don’t faze McIlroy in strong Farmers start
With 53 events on his schedule over the last two years, Rory McIlroy was more than ready for the two-plus-month hiatus following his WGC-HSBC Champions win in November.Knocking off the...
Woods recovers from shaky start to open Farmers with solid 69
Tiger Woods got the kindest of draws for the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open on Thursday.He was part of the quarter of the field that began their tournament...
In week he can reach No. 1, count on McIlroy’s full attack mode at Torrey Pines
For those who are Irish, fans of golf, or followers of Rory McIlroy, it was one of the great letdowns of 2019.There was a giddy buildup to McIlroy competing in...
Tiger Woods shares Torrey Pines spotlight with San Diego Police officer
For 18 years, San Diego Police Officer Debbie Ganley has had inside-the-ropes access at the Farmers Insurance Open, spending much of her time managing the craziness that surrounds Tiger Woods.On...
Davis Love takes swing at new gig: on-course commentator for CBS
Even with a 35-year pro playing career, Davis Love III needed a boot camp to prepare for his CBS debut this weekend at the Farmers Insurance Open as an on-course...
Woods downplays quest for win No. 83, but everyone else is buzzing about it
Farmers Insurance Open CEO Marty Gorsich has to think about it, even if Tiger Woods chooses not to.If Woods were to get into serious contention this weekend and have a...
Mixed reviews by players on Torrey Pines South Course renovations heading into Farmers Open
Beau Hossler was intrigued. Dylan Fritelli shrugged. On Monday, in practice rounds for the Farmers Insurance Open that begins on Thursday, the two former winners of the Junior World Championships...
David Feherty breaks out of golf mold to be crossover TV talk show star
When people who are far more accomplished or famous are excited to be in your company, you’ve accomplished something.That’s why David Feherty still can’t quite believe it.A modest success as...
With help from ‘The Shark,’ Cobra Golf founder Tom Crow revolutionized club industry
When Tom Crow packed up his young family in his native Australia in 1973 and moved to San Diego, golf club manufacturers were just beginning to take a foothold in...
New Farmers Open leader Gorsich strives to make his mark outside of golf’s ropes
In the years when Marty Gorsich worked in the Padres’ corporate sales department, it was clear to him the distinction the club made between those who hawked seats and suites...
Colleges face increasing demand to produce more and better sports webcasts
In RIMAC Arena at UC San Diego, banners of blue and gold hang below a massive new video board to commemorate the achievements of teams from the past.They are important...
Fit and motivated Mickelson not yet ready to fade onto senior circuit
LA QUINTA — It was an interesting insight provided by Phil Mickelson.On the eve of his first competitive round of 2020, in his 29th PGA Tour season, the San Diegan was reflecting...
Minority golf tour gets shot to play alongside PGA Tour stars at Farmers Open
If all goes as Tiger Woods hopes in less than two weeks, he will tee off late among the lead groups on Saturday morning in the third round of the...
Tiger Woods commits to Farmers Open seeking new ways to define his career
The anticipation has never waned for Tiger Woods’ first competitive start of the PGA Tour season.It was considerable last year in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines when Woods...
USL confirma el debut de San Diego Loyal, el club de Landon Donovan, contra Las Vegas Lights de Eric Wynalda
Landon Donovan contra Eric Wynalda. El partido es oficial. El equipo dirigido por Donovan, San Diego Loyal jugará su partido inaugural en el campeonato profesional de segunda división de la...
USL confirms San Diego Loyal debut will match Landon Donovan’s club against Eric Wynalda’s Las Vegas Lights
Landon Donovan vs. Eric Wynalda. The matchup is official now. As first reported by the Union-Tribune in December, Donovan’s expansion San Diego Loyal will play their inaugural game in the...
McIlroy will play at Torrey Pines as Farmers Open awaits Woods’ commitment
While the Farmers Insurance Open awaits a commitment from golf’s biggest draw, Tiger Woods, it has secured arguably the second most popular player in the world.For the second straight year,...
Unheralded players lift depleted Sockers to seventh straight win
Brazilian Luis Piffer and the rest of the San Diego Sockers’ defense had one major task on Sunday night: keep Ontario’s Franck Tayou — one of the most prolific scorers...
Sockers’ new star ‘Slav’ overcame childhood of hardships during war in his homeland
Having come to the United States as a refugee from war-torn Bosnia two decades ago, Slavisa Ubiparipovic knows all too well about transitions in life.Only 12 years old when his...
UC San Diego’s Oshita shouldering leadership load in another promising season for Tritons
It was a remarkable performance for a one-armed man.In November 2018, against University of Saint Martin’s — a team that would wind up one win short of the Div. II...
Sockers not making it look easy, but comeback leads to sixth straight win
Brian Farber’s first goal on Sunday night for the San Diego Sockers was as ugly as it was lucky. His second was brilliant, though it seemed like it would be...
Wrongful death suit against Pop Warner by Southern California moms rejected by judge
Two weeks before it was set to go to an unprecedented trial, the case of two Southern California mothers who sued Pop Warner youth football over the deaths of their...
Iowa’s Smith-Marsette gets the football scoring cycle in Holiday Bowl’s first half
In Iowa’s Holiday Bowl media guide, on the page with the biography of receiver Ihmir Smith-Marsette, the first note about the 6-foot-1, 183-pound junior read: “Has scored touchdowns in 2019...
Big-armed Iowa QB Nate Stanley has thrilled, frustrated Hawkeye faithful
For the Iowa football team’s Senior Day on Nov. 23, quarterback Nate Stanley walked onto the field at Kinnick Stadium with his parents at his side and was surprised by...
For Iowa’s A.J. Epenesa, Holiday Bowl is Samoan family affair
A.J. Epenesa has two jobs this week in the Holiday Bowl.For the Iowa football team against USC, the Hawkeyes hope to see the explosive and disruptive play at defensive end...
Iowa will go without helmet logo in Holiday Bowl to honor former coach Hayden Fry
There will be a striking absence on the black and yellow helmets of the Iowa football team during Friday's Holiday Bowl.Head coach Kirk Ferentz said Monday after practice at San...
Sockers’ trading card giveaway has local artist’s skillful, loving touch
Travis Peterson has a deep connection to San Diego sports. He has a sharp eye and talent for graphic design, and a fanatical devotion to collecting memorabilia and trading cards.He...
San Diego sports tour: Effort is there in Kings basketball, but this isn’t your dad’s or Dr. J’s ABA
In this occasional series, staff writer Tod Leonard attends sporting events to provide a taste and feel of the teams and games that are played throughout San Diego County.The team:...
2010s in San Diego sports: Move of Chargers overshadows all
There were so many achievements to go with the predictable heartache in San Diego sports in the 2010s.Meb Keflezighi made American history at an emotional Boston Marathon. The “Flying Tomato,”...
2010s in San Diego sports: Gwynn, Seau, Coleman, Coryell among legends lost
The list of San Diego sports figures we lost in the last 10 years seemed particularly long with legends. Some of the notables:Tom Ables (1926-2017)Known as San Diego State’s “No....
2010s in San Diego sports: Stories of sadness, scandal and loss
Alongside San Diego’s achievements in the 2010s, there were stories of sadness, scandal and loss:San Luis Rey Downs ravagedIt all seemed to unfold in a manner of minutes, if not...
2010s in San Diego sports: Bloopers from Chargers, Aztecs & more
In sports, especially in San Diego, something strange and absurd seems to be just around the corner. Some circumstances in the 2010s that gave us a chuckle:Outdoors bad for AztecsThe...
No hat trick, but Mexican Hat Dance with son for Velez in Sockers’ win
The Sockers didn’t just overcome 14 opposing players on Sunday night at Pechanga Arena San Diego in beating the Sonora Soles 6-3.They survived the Curse of the Mexican Hat Dance.It...
Seals offense sputters in home-opener loss to Toronto
This is how bad it was at times for the San Diego Seals’ offense in a 13-6 loss to the Toronto Rock in their season home opener on Saturday night:In...
Sockers flirt with shutout, settle for dominating 4-2 win over Ontario
Goalkeeper Boris Pardo was thinking it, but he would be the last guy to say a word.For nearly 3½ quarters on Friday night at Pechanga Arena San Diego, the Sockers...
New-look San Diego Seals set for National Lacrosse League home opener
The San Diego Seals of the National Lacrosse League had an expansion season in 2018-19 that carried plenty of positives.The Seals finished second in their division with a 10-8 mark...
Phil Mickelson commits to Farmers Open; could it be his last?
A year after missing the Farmers Insurance Open for the first time in his pro career, San Diegan Phil Mickelson will back playing at Torrey Pines in late January.Century Club...
San Diego Mesa women fall 2-0 in state soccer final
San Diego Mesa’s defense in women’s soccer this season was extraordinary. In their first 25 games of the season, the Olympians allowed only nine goals.A majority of those had come...
Mesa College women make history in reaching state soccer final
Win or lose Sunday, the San Diego Mesa College women’s soccer team has already made history.When freshman and Bonita Vista High alum Elena Jaramillo scored in the 85th minute Friday...
San Diego Mesa coach Curran has shot at going out on top in state soccer championship
Todd Curran found a successful formula long ago.For 22 years, Curran has been the head coach of San Diego Mesa College’s women’s soccer team, and in 19 of those seasons...
Mickelson skipping Phoenix to play in Saudi Arabia; will he enter Farmers Open?
For the first time in his pro career, Phil Mickelson won’t play in the Waste Management Phoenix Open in the 2020 season.The European Tour’s Saudi International said in a statement...
Frequent flyer Got Stormy has great trip in capturing Del Mar’s Matriarch
DEL MAR — Over the last year, Got Stormy did enough traveling to make a seasoned flight attendant's head spin.The 4-year-old chestnut filly, owned by Gary Barber and trained by Mark Casse,...
Oh Zuzanna! Ex-claiming horse captures Del Mar stakes race; gelding dies in workout
There was one very good reason why trainer Bob Hess Jr. was hesitant to enter 5-year-old mare Zuzanna in the $100,000 Grade III Red Carpet Handicap on Saturday, Nov. 30,...
Oh Zuzanna! Ex-claiming horse captures Del Mar stakes race; gelding dies in workout
DEL MAR — There was one very good reason why trainer Bob Hess Jr. was hesitant to enter 5-year-old mare Zuzanna in the $100,000 Grade III Red Carpet Handicap on Saturday at...
PGA Tour goes all in on legalized gambling
Stand on any par-3 hole on the PGA Tour and you’re bound to hear the chatter.A handful of friends gathered in their folding chairs around the green are conducting their...
Rain brings extra measures for Del Mar to make call on racing
DEL MAR — As much as the stormy weather of the last two weeks disrupted the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club’s racing schedule, there was at least one positive to come from it.At...
Soggy weather hasn’t stopped East Coast trainers from taking shot at Del Mar turf stakes
DEL MAR — They are thoroughbred trainers from the Midwest and East Coast who deal with mud and rain and sweltering humidity and even snow on a semi-regular basis.For the likes of...
Sockers shocked in opening loss to Turlock team owned by their coach
The San Diego Sockers beat themselves on Sunday night in their season opener.Not just figuratively. Literally. The Turlock Cal Express led for all but the first 10 minutes of the...
Del Mar cancels Thanksgiving racing; 7 turf stakes set for final two days of meet
On the day that it had to cancel its Thanksgiving Thursday racing card due to predicted storms, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club took a semantical stab at looking on the...
Del Mar cancels Thanksgiving racing; 7 turf stakes set for final two days of meet
On the day that it had to cancel its Thanksgiving Thursday racing card due to predicted storms, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club took a semantical stab at looking on the...
Del Mar cancels Thanksgiving racing; 7 turf stakes set for final two days of meet
On the day that it had to cancel its Thanksgiving Thursday racing card due to predicted storms, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club took a semantical stab at looking on the...
CC football roundup: Mesa suffers late miscue in losing Patriotic Bowl to El Camino
San Diego Mesa College hosted the Patriotic Bowl on Saturday night and lost in a fourth-quarter shootout.Mesa led 38-31 after three periods, but El Camino scored three touchdowns and a...
Del Mar cancels Thanksgiving racing; 7 turf stakes set for final two days of meet
DEL MAR — On the day that it had to cancel its Thanksgiving Thursday racing card due to predicted storms, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club took a semantical stab at looking on...
Horse racing again considers synthetic surfaces to stem safety concerns
DEL MAR — On the eve of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club’s 2019 summer race meet in mid-July, trainer Peter Miller walked the backstretch with the hang-dog look shared by many of...
With mind of his own, Midcourt runs away with Del Mar’s Native Diver Stakes
DEL MAR — Jockey Victor Espinoza knows it’s easy to train a naturally gifted horse. It’s the difficult ones who require the hardest work, and on Saturday the veteran rider once again...
Del Mar hopes rain doesn’t wash out its big turf finish
DEL MAR — For the second fall race meeting in a row, executives at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club are monitoring the weather forecast far more than they’d like.“We can’t catch a...
Wishbone Brawl at Goat Hill a perfect fit for Geoff Ogilvy’s Aussie vibe
There is something that strikes a chord in former U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy about golf clothing trendsetter John Ashworth and his Goat Hill Park golf course in Oceanside.Ashworth took...
Still seeking to end title drought, Sockers make changes in post-Donovan era
By most measures, the Landon Donovan Experiment was a success last season for the San Diego Sockers.With the addition of the former U.S. national team star in mid-February, they got...
Mare who suffered racing injury at Del Mar dies after developing laminitis
A third thoroughbred who was injured in racing Nov. 10 at Del Mar has died.According to the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Princess Dorian, a 5-year-old mare, was euthanized Monday morning,...
Mare who suffered racing injury at Del Mar dies after developing laminitis
A third thoroughbred who was injured in racing Nov. 10 at Del Mar has died.According to the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Princess Dorian, a 5-year-old mare, was euthanized Monday morning...
San Diego Mesa rallies past Palomar in offensive show
San Diego Mesa College quarterback Thomas Fishburne ran for one touchdown and threw for another in the fourth quarter as the Olympians rallied to beat visiting Palomar 41-31 on Saturday.The...
Riding crop debate should be hot topic at CHRB meeting
DEL MAR — For the California Horse Racing Board meeting that will be held Thursday across the street from the Del Mar racetrack, the item about jockeys’ use of the riding crops...
Baffert, Wests have fine 2-year-old in Bob Hope Stakes winner High Velocity
DEL MAR — After he’d won the Grade III Bob Hope Stakes for 2-year-olds for the 10th time on Saturday at Del Mar with High Velocity, trainer Bob Baffert wondered aloud if...
‘Open Doctor’ Jones ratchets up the challenge on Torrey Pines South
Now known as the "Open Doctor," golf course architect Rees Jones first began serving his internship as a 12-year-old in the summer of 1954.That year, the U.S. Open was being...
Del Mar cancels Thursday races due to rainy weather forecast; Derby appeal rejected by judge
There’s no greater proof of San Diego’s famously fair weather than this:In 82 years, the Del Mar race track has never lost a single day of horse racing to inclement...
Del Mar cancels Thursday races due to rainy weather forecast; Derby appeal rejected by judge
There’s no greater proof of San Diego’s famously fair weather than this:In 82 years, the Del Mar race track has never lost a single day of horse racing to inclement...
Del Mar cancels Thursday races due to rainy weather forecast; Derby appeal rejected by judge
There’s no greater proof of San Diego’s famously fair weather than this:In 82 years, the Del Mar race track has never lost a single day of horse racing to inclement...
Del Mar cancels Thursday races due to rainy weather forecast; Derby appeal rejected by judge
DEL MAR — There’s no greater proof of San Diego’s famously fair weather than this:In 82 years, the Del Mar race track has never lost a single day of horse racing to...
Scratches at Del Mar rise after Sunday’s racing fatalities
DEL MAR — It didn’t take long Thursday for experienced Del Mar horse racing followers to recognize a trend.The electronic tote board at the track scrolls through each race and identifies the...
Reportan la muerte de dos caballos y uno lesionado en Del Mar
DEL MAR — En medio del debate sobre la seguridad de las carreras de caballos en el sur de California, el Del Mar Thoroughbred Club podría señalar un hecho: no había sufrido...
Del Mar racetrack suffers first two racing fatalities of 2019 in span of 90 minutes
Amid the debate about the safety of thoroughbred racing in Southern California, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club could point to one fact: It had not suffered a single racing fatality...
Del Mar racetrack suffers first two racing fatalities of 2019 in span of 90 minutes
Amid the debate about the safety of thoroughbred racing in Southern California, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club could point to one fact: It had not suffered a single racing fatality...
Del Mar racetrack suffers first two racing fatalities of 2019 in span of 90 minutes
Amid the debate about the safety of thoroughbred racing in Southern California, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club could point to one fact: It had not suffered a single racing fatality...