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tommy tankka May 19, 2013 at 12:28 pm
The Class of 2013 could be THE best ever, as other experts have said. For those that saw the mens…Read More 100yd breaststroke, they witnessed history. All three top finishers bettered the National record...a most amazing feat! I can't imagine that happening again..maybe ever. Congrats to Steven Stumph! Wiser and Silverthorn as well. We'll be watching for you all at a higher level.
Jon Spangler May 4, 2013 at 02:59 pm
Rick Eymer made a "bush league" grammatical error that should have been caught. See…Read More paragraph 2:
"Since signing a professional contract with the Detroit Tigers in 1981, Melvin HAS RODE a roller coaster of success and failure."
Even a sports reporter should know better than this.....
Eyleen Nadolny May 2, 2013 at 02:43 pm
Bob Melvin is the best thing to happen to the A's in MANY years! Love him and the team! How…Read More appropriate it is that the team's "Root Beer Float Day" every year benefits the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation! Most important of all: KEEP THE A'S IN OAKLAND!!!
Scott Bowhay April 25, 2013 at 01:41 am
Cinco de Mayo at the Hacienda is going to be a blast this year! Great Live Mariachis, Pinatas, Tacos…Read More delicioso, cold draft beer, y Margaritas! MAY 5...at the Hacienda...check it out here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/105194603009765//
Alex Gronke (Editor) March 20, 2013 at 05:48 pm
The game is at 11:45 Pacific time. the NCAA site says that the game will be televised on CBS.
lovelafayette February 15, 2013 at 02:54 pm
Lafayette and Orinda contributed to the building, and a fund for ongoing maintenance of just the…Read More skate park. Lafayette City Council went against public opinion and contributed $65,000 to the parking lot redo. I thank Moragans for hosting the park, it is well used and policed. I think the $250,000 parking lot was a boondoggle. Kids on skate boards do not need parking, but that is the line Lafayette was fed and swallowed! General fund $ that should fix potholes.
Steve Cohn February 14, 2013 at 11:49 pm
That park was controversial when it was constructed but I have almost never driven past it when…Read More there has not been at least one, if not many kids engaged in having fun on their home turf. More opportunities like this need to be created for our children to pry them away from video games. And I believe that Orinda and Lafayette contributed to the cost of the lot. Kudos to all.
Informed Citizen February 14, 2013 at 02:13 pm
Pretty amazing that Moragan's have voted themselves the highest sales tax rate in the State (if not…Read More in the Country!) based on a pitch that there's no money for road repairs.... all the while, driving past a million dollar parking lot for a recreational skateboarding pit.
What ever happened to priorities? Or the notion that the proper role of local government is to cover needs, not dreams, wishes, and frills?
Born and Raised February 8, 2013 at 04:17 pm
That's funny I was going to say the same thing about a lot of 49r fans. However, football fans of…Read More just about any team have that element whether you want to recognize it or not. I'll be going to the Raiders games as much as I can this year because of the access to BART.
Michelle Kye February 8, 2013 at 03:44 pm
If I were a Raider's Fan, I would... it sounds like a good deal. Although, as CJ stated, I'd be…Read More concerned about increased crime. I remember a pre-season game with the Niners vs. the Raiders and there were a lot of incidents -- I said never again!
P February 5, 2013 at 03:55 pm
Palomar,
Well said comment!
There should have been an early pass-interference call on the 49ers as…Read More well.
If the refs had been making calls in the early game, players would have had to play by the rules throughout. Instead they let there be numerous late whistles and late hits (where one guy had the runner stopped with a tackle and then other guys were allowed to hit him--very physically dangerous and with game-changing possibilities of injuries and fumbles) and also over aggressive shoving/fighting after the point (mostly started by the Ravens).
I thought the officiating was poor and changed the nature of the game.
Wasn't this almost the fewest penalty calls that these teams have EVER had? (I'd like to hear those statistics.) Did these teams change that much from their previous season play that they now weren't doing penalties? I doubt it.
Palomar Parkman February 5, 2013 at 12:39 pm
The game was very entertaining for fans of both teams. That is why you watch. The 49ers played like…Read More a young team. Flashes of brilliance and moments of stupidity. The non-calls by the refs changed the ebb and flow. Their performance was pathetic and that is supposed to be the 'best' ref crew the NFL has to offer. Bad calls and non-calls never even out. I expect to see the game played by the rules.
I am not sure what the ultimate outcome would have been if it was properly officiated but it most definitely would not have been the same game I watched. What a disgraceful display by the NFL on their biggest stage.
Diddo Clark January 28, 2013 at 02:05 am
Clark Sibling Rivalry. My late parents, Johnson & Louise Clark of Lafayette, led exemplary lives…Read More & left 6 children & many grandchildren. My elderly parents suffered diminished capacity. My brothers, Steve & Charles, who had undue influence, alienated the affections of our parents from 4 of their descendants. Our parents asked Steve & Chas to manage Clark assets & share proceeds equally w/ their siblings. Steve & Chas: took from rather than shared w/ their sibs; misappropriated approx.100 million dollars of assets from parents & descendants; & filed 4 preemptive law suits against me & my brother Peter. Steve & Chas paid their attorneys thousands of dollars a day, most days this millennium, to crush Peter & me in ct. It's been a full-time job for me, almost all millennium, to defend myself.
At a cost to the Clark family of SCORES of millions of dollars, Steve & Chas:
(1) subjected Peter & me to financial duress, emotional distress, & traumatic stress;
(2) caused us to suffer PTSD & other damages; (3) deprived, & caused state cts to deprive, us of due process & other civil rts; (4) got awful orders & hundreds of thousands of dollars in judgments against us, none on the merits; & (5) may be getting away w/ financial elder abuse.
Now, Peter & I are indigent & homeless. I slept in my car most nights in 2012. Steve & Chas have wasted SO much $ that, if they had shared, THEY would have more $ now than they do. Diddo Clark
Dive Turn Work January 25, 2013 at 04:53 pm
I just hope their parents don't encourage sibling rivalry like my dad did. He demanded that the…Read More three of us (me and my two sisters) tell him how much we loved him. My two sisters, the conniving little toads, lied to him about how much they loved him while I was honest about my feelings. So, what does dear old dad do? He disinherited me!! But, I still wound up marrying this really cool dude from France who valued honesty and integrity and acts like a king. Although something deep down tells me that more trouble lies ahead for me because of my naughty sisters.
My neighbor also told me about her husband's rivalry with his brother. Her husband is the manly, hunter, outdoorsy type. His brother was apparently a bit of a momma's boy. So, one day her husband came home and was starving. His brother had made some lentil soup but wouldn't share any of it unless my friend's husband promised to surrender his birthright. Sadly, her husband agreed and his brother just started dancing around the room screaming, "Suck-a!" It got really ugly from there. Her husband threatened to kill his brother so his brother ran away. Last they heard he was married to two women. Apparently, his father-in-law tricked him into the bigamy situation.
Family. Can't live with them and the bodies are so hard to hide from police.
Dan Perez January 29, 2013 at 02:37 am
My wish is that some (ok, a lot) of the commercialization be taken out of the superbowl. It can be…Read More sickening. Too many time outs; long ones that can mess up momentum. I am very impressed with Jim Harbaugh's coaching. With the exception of the Seattle game, he was pretty awesome this year.
Jack Rux January 24, 2013 at 04:04 pm
Thanks Kristofer. I have feeling this will be a really good Super Bowl. The key is for the players…Read More of both teams not to get caught up in all the hoopla. A line from one of my favorite country songs "Come From the Heart" sums up what's needed: "You gotta dance like nobody's watching." Even if you there are billions. And I think the 49ers will do that enough to win.
Leonard Vinci January 22, 2013 at 05:28 pm
It's amazing how many folks know so much about sports and don't have a clue about how our government…Read More in Washington and even here in Danville are messing with our lives. Go 49er's on Super Sunday... Wow...Super Sunday
Chris J Kapsalis January 20, 2013 at 05:59 pm
These are the things teams will print out and tape up in the locker room to fire up their team and…Read More players, especially an underdog. When I saw this yesterday I said Oh No! No way, they didn't. Still early, but I know for a fact they do this sometimes.
Emily Henry (Editor) January 20, 2013 at 05:00 pm
49ers: 28, Falcons: 21
Patriots: 30, Ravens: 38
Go Niners and Ravens!
Lance Howland (Editor) January 19, 2013 at 03:41 pm
Niners 33 Falcons 21 Patriots 38 Ravens Nevermore 20
Dive Turn Work January 10, 2013 at 02:10 pm
I paid $10K to have dinner with Bush. Of course, I got a nice photo and a decorative plate. I think…Read More I overpaid.
Lance Howland (Editor) January 9, 2013 at 09:50 pm
It's brilliant. A $10 beer seems so much more reasonable if you paid $5,555.55 for the ticket ...
Emily Henry (Editor) January 11, 2013 at 06:38 pm
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Denise Kalm January 9, 2013 at 07:17 pm
Cheating has become rampant in our schools to the extent that even talented children are finding…Read More they need to "cheat to compete." If we continue to reward cheaters in the public realm (sports, politics or Hollywood), we send the wrong message to our kids. Cheating should have a dire price. Bonds should never be awarded this honor.
Wayne Cochrun January 5, 2013 at 03:48 pm
During during Bob's tenure DLS was the best coached football team in America, at any level. The…Read More names of the players changed but the fundamentals and techniques never changed!!! And football IS fundamentals!!!!
Wayne Cochrun, former footall coach for 43 years in Southern California.
Jack Weir January 4, 2013 at 09:07 pm
Our son Drew played for DLS for four years, and was on the varsity team that maintained the 151-game…Read More "Streak." At the football awards ceremony his senior year, Coach Ladoceur commented that Drew was "a very good influence on our team." I can think of no higher compliment. I know Bob will continue to teach and coach young men to become upstanding and responsible members of their community.
Bill January 9, 2013 at 03:21 pm
Would like to think committing to win, with integrity, does carryover for more than just DLS…Read More winners. But I doubt it's more important than kids having positive role models in many, if not all aspects of their lives. Sometimes it's a coach, sometimes it's a dance teacher, sometimes it's a parent...or, even better, sometimes all 3.
jim January 8, 2013 at 05:10 am
it feels good to win- much better than losing. It is a reflection of the hard work put in and is…Read More the reward for being good. It is not life or death, but very little really is. My view is, if you are going to do something, then give it your all. If that causes you to win- so be it. If not- then at least you gave it your all. In DLS case, just very impressive that kids can operate at such a high level and play the top talent in the country and compete-- congrats to a great program. If you ever played in a freiendly game of baseball, a pick up basketball game or a Thanksgiving Day football game-- you know why it is important to win-- because you dont want to loose- you dont plan on loosing and you dont practice to loose. That attitude will carryover into the balance of these kids lives and make them more successful at whatever they do in the future...
Tom January 7, 2013 at 07:12 pm
I agree with Jack but have a different take. Why in the world is it so important to win HS football…Read More games? I know many current and former DLS kids and they are good kids and most are also good students but I have never understood why ANY sport could be that important.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 29, 2013 at 11:17 am
A little off subject, but.....The Jets released Tim Teboe and that is the best thing for Tim and…Read More hope he gets over the royal screwing he got from incompetant coaching staff.
mike gregory January 9, 2013 at 11:03 pm
I don't care if you recruit or what 151-0 is a feet that's beyond believable or 399-25, and he…Read More stoped playing teams in a division to travel and play the best in the country, and he still won won won
Gemini21 January 7, 2013 at 11:22 pm
My passion is valid. Calling a person naive shows your ignorance with your facts on this subject.…Read More I live here and know how it works, but most of all have hands on knowledge. Yep, they don't have to recruit and recruiting from "all over the U.S." as you implied previously is "naive".
Michael Dodge January 5, 2013 at 05:55 pm
I started at DLS in 79 and had him as my religion teacher, he was a fantastic teacher, I remember…Read More working out with him when I wrestled.. He was bench pressing more then anyone back then.
Robert Rothgery January 5, 2013 at 03:24 pm
This transition has been long anticipated and is a product of strategic planning and infrastructure…Read More development that is entirely consistent with the team's more observable disciplines on the playing field. To understand the DLS program you must realize that Lad guides his team from a foundation of discipline, training and ethic, but without the control and go-fer management so common in prep athletics. It produces a different behavior - one where commitment and community trump performance induced by conformity and outward obligation. Robert Ladouceur's presence is not an irreplaceable blip in history, but simply another chapter in a successful program that has been running for over three hundred years.
Tom Kirkbride January 5, 2013 at 08:17 am
De La Salle will continue to thrive. Coach Lad has schooled his successor well(14 years); over 30…Read More players return from 2012; the jv and frosh teams lost only two games total. And Lad remains present for advice/council.
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