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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego State is scheduled to begin in its coronavirus-delayed football season Saturday, Oct. 24 against UNLV at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, its home for this season and next as SDCCU Stadium is demolished and Aztec Stadium is built. San Diego State initially planned to make 2020 its final season at SDCCU Stadium, where it had played since 1967, but being able to expedite its demolition and construction of Aztec Stadium and the stadium's...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The 2020 Holiday Bowl has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic following a unanimous vote by the San Diego Bowl Game Association board, organizers announced Thursday, Oct. 22. "This has been the most difficult decision our board has ever had to make since our bowl game started in 1978,'' said Holiday Bowl CEO Mark Neville. "While it's not the decision we wanted to make, it's the right decision for our nonprofit association and the community for the long term.'' The board had not decided where or...
The Fallbrook Warrior Cheer Club members train together at the Fallbrook High School stadium, Oct. 15. After being screened, the squad stays active while following social distancing guidelines....
If the world were normal, the Fallbrook Union High School Boys Water Polo team would be in the midst of their season right this moment. Warm days, longer days, no need for parkas. Head coach Bill Richardson knows things are going to be different when the boys open their training in mid-December and games in early January. "It will be in play in the dark and all those fun things," he said. "I used to coach the girls. So, I remember the flu season and no lights, rainstorms and...
Santa Anita Park had three stakes races the weekend of Oct. 2-4, and San Luis Rey Training Center colts trained by Peter Miller won two of them. Mo Forza won the Grade 2 City of Hope Mile Stakes which was held Oct. 3. Ebeko finished first in the Oct. 4 Zuma Beach Stakes. Both races were 1 mile on Santa Anita's turf course. Both horses entered the stretch in fourth place before taking the lead during the stretch. The City of Hope Mile Stakes is for horses 3 years old and up. Mo Forza was ridden by Flavien Prat. Prat and Mo...
DEL MAR (CNS) - Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse trainer Gary Jones died at his Del Mar home at the age of 76, it was announced Monday, Oct. 12. Jones, whose career accomplishments included earning more than $52 million in purses and 1,465 race victories, died Sunday following a lengthy illness. His son Marty, also a trainer, told the Thoroughbred Daily News that his father had been in hospice care and died of natural causes. The son of legendary trainer Farrell ``Wild Horse'' Jones took over his father's stable in 1974 and...
Four horses stabled at the San Luis Rey Training Center, when they are not at the track where the meet is being held, won stakes races on the opening weekend of the Santa Anita Park fall meet. The meet was originally scheduled to begin Sept. 19, but smoke from the Bobcat Fire postponed Opening Day to Sept. 25. The Sept. 25 races included the Grade 3 Chillingworth Stakes won by Into Chocolate. On Sept. 26, Bulletproof One was the winner of the Unzip Me Stakes and Get Her...
SACRAMENTO – Senate Bill 1003, a measure written by state Sen. Brian Jones, R-Santee, which extends the immunity from liability that local governments receive when operating skate parks, was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Tuesday, Sept. 29. Skate parks are reserved areas, often in community parks, that are set aside and built for use by skateboarders and extreme sport riders who use all-wheeled, nonmotorized bicycles, scooters and wheelchairs. Locally operated skate parks offer a place for skateboarders and sport r...
For likely the first time in the history of high school tennis there will be a new format for the upcoming season. The boys and the girls teams will play a coed season in the spring. "For the one year that this is happening, it's really pretty much changed everything," Fallbrook Union High School boys and girls varsity tennis coach Bill Lenaway said. "We're actually going to play a coed season in the spring. We're not even having separate boys and girls teams. "We're going to...
Slowly but surely, athletes from Fallbrook High School are beginning to get some training ahead of what will be a fast and furious two-season sports calendar this school year. While the athletes aren't officially training as Warriors, they are getting some work in. "We're going to be open and up here on (Sept.) 28th, which is good for the outside club teams if you have a facility," Pat Walker, athletic director of Fallbrook High, said. "We're going to have football – they a...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego Loyal SC announced today it will forfeit the point it received from its 1-1 tie with LA Galaxy II because of a racial slur directed at a Black SD Loyal player. LA Galaxy II defender Omar Ontiveros used the slur in the 71st minute of Wednesday's 1-1 tie at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, according to USL Championship, which suspended Ontiveros Friday for six games. Multiple officials, LA Galaxy II coaching staff and players were in the area, several of whom later acknowledged hearing the...
Peter Miller, who trains his horses at the San Luis Rey Training Center when he does not have them at the track where the meet is being held, is the trainer champion for the 2020 Del Mar Thoroughbred Club summer meet. "Thankful and grateful," Miller said. "I'm very appreciative of my team, everyone on the team." Miller ended the meet with 28 wins, including six victories in stakes races. His final stakes win of the meet occurred September 4 when Good With People won the I'm...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego Padres announced Thursday, Sept. 17 that out of an abundance of caution due to air quality, the series between the Padres and Seattle Mariners would be played in Petco Park instead of Seattle. The three games were scheduled to be played in Seattle's T-Mobile Park, but unhealthy air quality due to dozens of wildfires across the Pacific Northwest made that untenable. Friday's game will begin at 6:40 p.m., Saturday's at 6:10 p.m. and Sunday's at 1:10 p.m. The Mariners will serve as the home team...
Marco Arias, head coach of the Fallbrook High School boys' varsity cross-country team, said he is fortunate to be coaching the sport he is. "We're one of the programs that actually is pretty fortunate that they give us a class for the team," Arias said. "I've been able to engage them through the classroom, the Google Classroom, setting up training schedules for them and making sure that they have training logs. Since we're not a club and we technically can't be on campus, on S...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Petco Park will play host to a pair of American League playoff series next month under a schedule announced Tuesday, Sept. 15 that will culminate with Major League Baseball's first neutral-site World Series, played in Arlington, Texas. The playoff tournament schedule was formulated in response to the coronavirus pandemic, with an eye toward the ``bubble'' concept employed by the NBA and NHL aimed at ensuring limited outside interaction with players. Under the schedule, Petco Park will play host to a...
CARSON (CNS) - Los Angeles County will play host to three college football teams next year, as San Diego State University announced Tuesday, Sept. 15 that the Aztecs will play their 2021 home games at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson while the university works on its new campus and stadium in Mission Valley. The decision allows the university continue its work on the construction site adjacent to SDCCU Stadium, with the new stadium scheduled to open in fall 2022. ``Once th...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego Padres resumed play Sunday, Sept. 13 by sweeping a doubleheader against the San Francisco Giants at Petco Park after their games the past two days were postponed due to a presumptive positive coronavirus test. Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association Joint Committee, in conjunction with each team's medical staff, reviews all positive COVID-19 tests on an individual basis to determine how each case should be handled in order to ensure the health and safety of the...
Coming off a run to win the CIF San Diego Section Division II Girls Field Hockey championship in 2019, the Fallbrook High School girls' field hockey program was poised to capitalize on that success with a growing interest in the sport in town. The Warriors used a senior-laden team to rattle off playoff wins that featured game-winning goals in the waning moments, a stout defense, and a cohesive team unit throughout. Fallbrook had long been a field hockey powerhouse under the...
While Fallbrook Youth Baseball is taking registration for a fall quote-unquote season, as permitted by the County of San Diego, other leagues are struggling to determine what their future holds. "The county is going to allow us to – using air quotes over the phone – have a season, but they won't let us play (games) between teams," Bryce Kolezar, vice president of Sponsorships for FYB said. "Say there's a team of 12 for any division. They can only split up and play amongst the...
San Luis Rey Training Center filly Governor Goteven won the Sunday, Aug. 30, Generous Portion Stakes at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Governor Goteven and jockey Tiago Pereira had a winning time of 1:12.21 in the six-furlong race for California-bred 2-year-old fillies on Del Mar's dirt track. They finished 4 1/2 lengths ahead of second place I'm So Anna. "Pretty exciting," trainer Lisa Bernard said. "It was great. Great to run and great to win," owner Linda Templeton said. "W...
San Luis Rey Thoroughbred Training Center colt Mo Forza won the Grade 2 Del Mar Mile stakes race Sunday, Aug. 23, at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Mo Forza, who was ridden by Flavien Prat, won the one-mile turf race in 1:33.27 and finished 4 1/4 lengths in front of second-place Restrainedvengence. "We expected him to run well, and he did," trainer Peter Miller said. The race was the first for Mo Forza since the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational Stakes race Jan. 25 at...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce opened registration for its annual Charity Golf Tournament at Pala Mesa Resort, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 25. All the fun starts midday, with check-in at 11 a.m. and shotgun start at 1 p.m. Tournament play is enhanced by lunch, an opportunity drawing, a virtual silent auction, contests and golf awards. A portion of the proceeds will benefit REINS Therapeutic Horsemanship Program, a local nonprofit where children and adults w...
In every other school year, the boys' volleyball season is played in the spring. This year, they will start their season Saturday, Dec. 12. That's quite a few months ahead of schedule. For Jeffrey "Chip" Patterson, head coach of Fallbrook High School's varsity boys' volleyball team, it means a whole lot of things will be up in the air – not volleyballs, though – leading up to the season. "The biggest problem we have is that these boys have to get physicals and all these thi...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego State University announced Friday, Sept. 4 that head men's basketball coach Brian Dutcher has signed a contract extension that will keep him with the Aztecs through 2025-26 season. The 2019-20 USA Today National Coach of the Year is entering his fourth season as head coach and beginning his 22nd year as part of the staff at SDSU. The three-year extension follows a season that featured a 26-game win streak and a Mountain West Conference-record 12th men's basketball championship with a 17-1 mark....
On July 27, San Luis Rey Training Center colt Dominant Soul gave trainer Paula Capestro her first Del Mar Thoroughbred Club victory since 2015. Capestro saddled a 104.5:1 long shot Aug. 16 at Del Mar, and Severin finished third only three-quarters of a length behind the winner. The win was in the eighth career race for Dominant Soul, who had 12:1 odds that day. The 3-year-old, who is owned as well as trained by Capestro, finished fourth in his previous race June 6 at Santa Anita Park. A third-place result March 8 at Santa...
