SureWest Sports Show names award winners
My friend Mike Finnerty, host of the SureWest Sports show on SureWest cable’s channel 702 every week, announced his sponsor company’s athletes and coaches of the year selections yesterday.
Monarchs roster includes four All-Stars
The Sacramento Monarchs return four WNBA All-Stars (Rebekkah Brunson, Kara Lawson, Ticha Penicheiro and DeMya Walker), seven players from the 2005 WNBA Championship team (Brunson, Lawson, Hamchétou Maïga-Ba, Chelsea Newton, Penicheiro, Nicole Powell and Walker) and three additional veterans (Laura Harper, Crystal Kelly and Scholanda Robinson) to the team’s 2009, 11-woman roster.
Welcome to ‘The Show,’ Vin
By Albert Samaha
Sports Informant Contributing Writer
Remember that scene in the Indie masterpiece “Oldboy” when Oh Dae-su finally gets out of his prison, roams the streets for the first time in 15 years, and sees a group of teenage hoodlums hanging out in the basin? After 15 years of solitary training in a cramped room, a manually drawn image on the wall as his sparring partner, Oh Dae-su was craving the opportunity to satiate his curiosity: How would fighting skills harnessed opposite a concrete wall translate into pragmatic reality, against real people who will really fight back?
Broadstone Barracudas lose to EDH Taz
By Susan Laird
Sports Informant Contributing Writer
The Broadstone Barracudas Swim Team lost to the El Dorado Hills Tasmanian Devils, 254-619, at the dual meet held at the Broadstone pool on June 6.
A deeper look at the WEC fights at Arco
I got in touch with World Extreme Cagefighting athlete Urijah Faber today, hoping to get an update on his health. He did in fact break his hand, and as I expected, it wasn’t just his right hand that he hurt.


