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HUNTINGTON BEACH (AP) - The Vans U.S. Open of Surfing, a summer competition that draws thousands each year to Southern California's Huntington Beach, has been canceled because of the coronavirus. Organizers announced the cancellation on Monday, citing "continued health concerns and current guidelines surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic." The event will return in 2021, organizers said. The surfing tournament is also a nine-day festival that packs the sand on the south side of...
RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says there might be no major league games this year after a breakdown in talks between teams and the players' union on how to split up money in a season delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The league also revealed several players on big league rosters have tested positive for COVID-19. Two days after union head Tony Clark declared additional negotiations futile, Manfred reversed his position of...
DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer For more than 70 years, the Confederate flag was a familiar sight at NASCAR races. Through the civil rights era right on through the season opener at Daytona in February, the flag dotted infield campsites and was waved in grandstands by fans young and old. As the nation - and at last, NASCAR -- comes to grips with race relations in the wake of the death of George Floyd, it was time: The flag is no longer welcome in the stock car series. NASCAR banned the flag at its races and all its venues...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Drew Brees was sharply criticized by fellow high-profile athletes, including some of his own teammates, on Wednesday after the Saints quarterback reiterated his opposition to kneeling during the national anthem. In an interview with Yahoo, Brees was asked to revisit former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's 2016 protest of police brutality against minorities, in which Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem before games. "I will never agree with anybody...
If no unforeseen obstacles occur, Jonathan Esposito will be the first former Bonsall High School soccer player to play the sport in college. Esposito, who graduated from Bonsall High School this spring, will be playing soccer at the University of Chester in northwest England. "It's always been a dream," Esposito said of playing college soccer. Esposito attended the Innovation Center charter school, which included Murrieta High School Academy, from kindergarten through 10th gra...
The San Diego High School Sports Association annually honors one male student-athlete and one female student-athlete from each CIF San Diego Section school. This year, Erin Murray was Fallbrook High School’s recognized female Senior Scholar-Athlete. “I feel super honored and blessed to have the opportunity to receive this award,” Murray said. The SDHSSA allows athletic directors and coaches to pick the honorees from each school and notes that the student-athletes should have excelled both on and off the field. “They would b...
City News Service The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club announced it plans to start its racing season Friday, July 10, pending the approval of the California Horse Racing Board. The state’s Horse Racing Board will decide at its June 11 meeting whether to approve the Del Mar racetrack’s plan, which would employ a Friday through Sunday race schedule. The track will operate without spectators for the foreseeable future, according to track officials. Originally scheduled to open July 18, the track’s operators proposed moving up the start...
William and Mary College head cross country coach Forest Braden told Austin Alanis that the 2020 Bonsall High School graduate isn't guaranteed a berth on the William and Mary cross country team, but Braden also told Alanis what he needs to achieve for a berth on the Tribe's squad. "It's in my hands for training and getting to that level," Alanis said. "The coach and I have communicated about training and what it will take to get on the team," Alanis said. "He knows my...
MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Frank Reich jumped right into research mode when he knew Philip Rivers would hit free agency. The Indianapolis Colts coach studied tapes of Rivers' throws from an uncharacteristically poor 2019 season to compare with those he made earlier in his career. Reich saw no difference. When offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni and tight ends coach Jason Michael concurred with Reich's opinion, general manager Chris Ballard went all in...
DEL MAR (CNS) - Two horses that died when they collided while training at the Del Mar Racetrack last summer were processed into animal by-products instead of being taken to a UC Davis Animal Health and Safety Laboratory per protocol, it was reported today. The two horses killed in the July 18 head-on collision -- Charge A Bunch and Carson Valley -- were taken to a rendering plant near the El Sobrante Landfill in Corona, where they were processed into products such as...
Josh Hernandez completed four years on Fallbrook High School's varsity cross-country team in November, and even though the 2020 track and field season was shortened, that was his fourth year on the Warriors' varsity for that sport. He will continue his scholastic running career at Coker University. "I am pretty happy to be able to run in college," Hernandez said. Hernandez signed his letter of intent April 23. "That was a special moment for him," Marco Arias, head...
Grant Knox will continue his baseball career at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. "I'm honored to have the opportunity to be a part of the amazing education that Linfield offers and being able to play with the reputation of the Wildcats," Knox said. Linfield College won the NCAA Division III championship in 2013, and in five of the past 10 years – not including the shortened 2020 season – the Wildcats won the Northwest Conference championship. McMinnville is in nor...
DEL MAR (CNS) - The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club announced today it plans to start its racing season on July 10, pending the approval of the California Horse Racing Board. The state's Horse Racing Board will decide at its June 11 meeting whether to approve the Del Mar racetrack's plan, which would employ a Friday through Sunday race schedule. The track will operate without spectators for the foreseeable future, according to track officials. Originally scheduled to open on July...
DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Tom Brady delivered the shot of the match that made it easy to forget the rest of his swings. Tiger Woods didn't miss a fairway and earned a small measure of revenge against Phil Mickelson. The PGA Tour is set to return in just over two weeks, and it has a tough act to follow. In the second and final charity match that brought live golf to TV, this exhibition was as entertaining as the real thing. Woods lagged a long birdie putt close enough that his partner, Peyton Manning, didn't have to putt....
TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA is in talks with The Walt Disney Company on a single-site scenario for a resumption of play in Central Florida in late July, the clearest sign yet that the league believes the season can continue amid the coronavirus pandemic. The National Basketball Players Association is also part of the talks with Disney, the league said Saturday. Games would be held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, a massive campus on the Disney property near Orlando. NBA spokesman Mike Bass said the...
Erin Murray wasn't able to run track as a Fallbrook High School senior, but she will be on the St. Louis University track team during the Billikens' next season. "I feel extremely blessed to have the opportunity to continue my athletic career in college, especially because of how sudden our high school sports season ended. I'm super excited to run for St. Louis University and see how my running abilities will develop at the collegiate level," Murray said. Murray received an...
Joel Calhoun was named High School Sports Association's male Athlete of the Year at Fallbrook Union High School for the 2019-2020 school year, according to Fallbrook High athletic director, Patrick Walker. The four-year varsity letterman in basketball and baseball recently led his team to the semifinals in the CIF Division 5 Boys Basketball playoffs and had a promising senior season in baseball cut short by the coronavirus pandemic and school closures. Calhoun said academics...
Fallbrook Union High School senior Dean Olivo was recently awarded a State Leadership certificate by California Baseball Coaches Association. The award is given to the senior athlete from each school that best exemplifies leadership on his team. Olivo said his leadership comes in the form of setting a good example for his teammates. "I'm not like a leader that's loud and trying to get in people's faces," he said. "But I like to characterize my leadership by helping others...
SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer Konrad Ott and some of the parents with his Northern California girls volleyball club skipped a popular Florida tournament that is now postponed. They could soon face a similar decision about a national event in Dallas. A boys baseball tournament organizer in the St. Louis area generated debate by staging an event less than a week after the Missouri governor cleared such gatherings. These scenarios playing out across the nation illustrate how a...
By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) - Erling Haaland scored the Bundesliga's first goal in more than two months and then celebrated. Alone. The 19-year-old's Borussia Dortmund teammates stayed away, mindful of the strict hygiene measures amid the coronavirus pandemic, as Germany's soccer season resumed in unprecedented conditions on Saturday. Dortmund defeated Schalke 4-0 in the first Ruhr derby to be played in an empty stadium. Calls and shouts from coaching staff...
BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer NFL teams can begin reopening their facilities on Tuesday if state and local governments will allow it. In a memo sent to the 32 teams Friday by Commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained by The Associated Press, he stressed that the clubs must be "in compliance with any additional public health requirements in their jurisdiction, and have implemented the protocols that were developed by (league medical officer) Dr. (Allen) Sills and distributed to all clubs on May 6." Facilities have been clo...
The Major Arena Soccer League named 2007 Fallbrook High School graduate Chris Toth as the league's 2019-20 Goalkeeper of the Year. "It's an honor to be selected to win the award. I thought I had a good year. I thought I had a season also that represents Goalkeeper of the Year, and I'm happy that it was me," Toth said. Toth played in 18 games for the Ontario Fury during the 2020-2021 season. He allowed 82 goals while making 232 saves. It gave him an average of 4.75 goals...
The boys and girls of summer are missing from Fallbrook’s sports fields these days – and there’s no indication that they will be back anytime soon. Nationally, even the most optimistic projections indicate that youth sports could begin to start in August, which eliminates an entire season for sports such as baseball and girls’ softball. For the first time in history, the Little League World Series has been canceled, having been held every year since 1947. The coronavirus pandemic, and the state and county restric...
JP Raineri Sports Editor The CrossCreek Golf Club in Temecula is back up and running and ready to serve customers. The golf course had been closed to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, but it is now open and thrived during the break in play. "CrossCreek is in as good of condition as it has ever been," Dave Garner, general manager of CrossCreek Golf Club, said. "Rated by many in Southern California as one of the top public courses, CrossCreek employees work hard every...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – On May 1, several changes to San Diego County’s Order of Health Officer and Emergency Regulations went into effect. Among them was the easing of restrictions on public and private golf courses. Since then, there have been questions about the use of golf carts. After consulting with the public health officer, the following clarification is being provided regarding the use of golf carts. Golf cart use is limited to the following two groups: • Senior citizens over 55 years of age. • People of any age with di...
