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Never heard this Gilroy-centric line, but when Doug the veteran Las Vegas cab driver who used to run a Vegas casino poker room “back in the day” heard we were from the Garlic Capital he immediately showed his hand. “You know what they called a hand with three 10s?” We didn’t have a clue what the old-time poker players called it. “They’d say, ‘I’ve got 30 miles of bad road between San Jose and Gilroy.’ ” Miss Jenny and I laughed out loud. The card quip referred to the 30-mile stretch of Monterey Highway. Before the new U.S. 101 it was known as “Blood Alley” – a nasty stretch of stoplights, accidents, backed-up traffic and fruit-peddling stands, the latter being its lone saving grace. It seems like so long ago, but the Sig Sanchez Freeway between Morgan Hill and San Jose opened less than 10 years ago in 2003.

A pick-by-pick look at Thursday night's first round of the 2012 NFL draft, by the Charlotte Observer's Ron Green Jr.:

SAN JOSE – Patrick Marleau, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Torrey Mitchell scored goals in the third period as the San Jose Sharks outlasted the Washington Capitals 5-2 Saturday at sold-out HP Pavilion. San Jose, with 50 points after 38 games, has a three-point lead over both Los Angeles and Dallas in the...

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