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Former Nevada Union standout Spencer Havner struck paydirt once again. more...
11/16/2009 11:01pm
So, Spencer Havner, you just scored your first touchdown in the National Football League ... What do you want to do for an encore?

How about score two?
  11/02/2009 11:47pm
Plodding along on the practice squad wasn't exactly what Spencer Havner had in mind for his career in the National Football League.
  10/27/2009 10:18pm
Longtime Nevada Union fans might remember watching 2001 graduate Spencer Havner flying all over the field from his linebacker position making tackle after hard-hitting tackle.
  10/26/2009 1:45pm
Just a couple of years ago, during our annual “State of the Classic” sitdown, I was chatting up Duane Strawser about the upcoming golden anniversary of the Nevada City Classic bike race.
  10/22/2009 11:19pm
Three-time defending Tour of California champion — and 1998 Nevada City Classic champ — Levi Leipheimer let it slip today that Nevada City will host the opening stage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California via his Twitter...
  10/22/2009 9:44am
Grass Valley native Matt DiBenedetto is just about ready to take one step closer to realizing his NASCAR dreams.
  10/21/2009 11:17pm
How about them Raiders?

OK, calm down Raider Fan, one win doesn't make a trend.

And two wins certainly don't make a season, unless of course your team is the one that does actually reside in Oakland.

I kid. I kid.
  10/20/2009 10:36pm
Attending a tour event is special. We get to view a world renowned course and for those of us in Northern California, the PGA Tour doesn't stop north of Monterey more that a few times a decade.
  10/14/2009 11:18pm
COPENHAGEN — The 2016 Olympics are going to Rio de Janeiro, putting the games in South America for the first time.

Rio beat surprise finalist Madrid in the last round of voting.
  10/02/2009 10:10am
For most Sharks fans, the curtain rises with guarded optimism. Quick to shed the reputation as a team that flames out come the Stanley Cup playoffs, most will concede that this is probably the best team San Jose has ever assembled.
  09/30/2009 10:30pm
Alexander Rossi secured the International Formula Master Rookies' Championship in dramatic style at Imola on Sunday, by winning the final race of the season in Imola, Italy. 
  09/25/2009 3:42pm
A world record once owned by the BUB Racing Streamliner Seven team is now back in hand.
  09/24/2009 5:10pm
A new generation of champions and a storybook conclusion capped the 46th Reno National Championship Air Races on Sunday as Steven Hinton Jr. of Chino became the youngest pilot ever to win an Unlimited Class Gold race.
  09/23/2009 11:50pm
Linda Eckhart, 41, rode to first place in the women's single speed category of the Sept. 12 Tahoe-Sierra 100 bicycle race. The 100-mile course, which includes 13,000 feet in elevation gain, began at the Ice Lakes Lodge in Norden and finished at...
  09/23/2009 11:36pm
Nevada City is still in the running for a leg of the Tour of California bicycle race, despite a postponement of the 2010 route announcement, according to City Manager Gene Albaugh.
  09/21/2009 11:34pm
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