Buchanan High – a real, real good baseball team – was real, real fortunate this time. “You can’t win them all on just pure talent,” catcher Jeff Brown said after tripling with two outs in the bottom of the seventh and eventually scoring on a bases-loaded walk as the Bears moved to the threshold of [...]

BOYS TENNIS HIGHLIGHTS Fresno High clinched its first North Yosemite League title since 1957 with a 5-4 victory over Madera South. Kong Thao led the way, winning in singles and doubles. BOYS TENNIS RESULTS COUNTY/METRO ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Madera 9, Sunnyside 0 No. 1 singles: Jacob Sheeter d. Christopher Martinez, 6-0, 6-0. No. 1 doubles: Sheeter/Chris [...]

“They sent us to Manzanar,” the woman sings. “Where gales blow stinging dust and eight machine-gunned turrets tower above barbed wire. They gave us a cot, a blanket, a room in the barracks where dust blows through the cracks. And tar paper covers the roof.” It’s not exactly the subject matter of a typical opera [...]

The frozen yogurt landscape is changing in the Fresno area, with three shops frozen out of the market and one new flavor in town. And if those puns weren’t cheesy enough, there’s actual cheese involved too — grilled cheese. The Big Swirl frozen yogurt shop that opened at Cedar and Shaw avenues includes The Big [...]

Clovis, CA: The Clovis Crush Travel Baseball team is raising money for their season by selling the LiveCard. The players are all just 9-years-old, and when they’re not traveling with The Clovis Crush, they play league baseball with Buchanan Cal Ripkin, Riverpark Little League, Lions League, and Central Cal Ripkin. The team primarily travels and [...]

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