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April 8, 2026

BOXING: Co-featured bout for Guerrero-Aydin announced

Top-rated welterweight prospect "Showtime" Shawn Porter faces his toughest foe to date, two-time world title challenger Alfonso Gomez, for the NABO Welterweight Title on July 28 at HP Pavilion in San Jose, it was announced Friday.

WEAVER: Catching a dose of Olympic fever

During the 2008 Olympics my now-wife (we had only been dating for seven months then) was a sports copy editor intern at the Denver Post. From inside that vast, and might I add vibrant, newsroom - the same newsroom where Post columnist Woody Paige records his piece on ESPN's Around the Horn - I watched American swimmer Michael Phelps win one of his eight gold medals in Beijing.

College football to implement rule that will encourage touchbacks

HOOVER, Ala. – College football is in the middle of a two-year rules cycle, meaning only changes for safety reasons can be implemented for this season.

Adam Scott matches course record, leads British Open by 1

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England – Adam Scott ditched the cautious approach so often preached in major championships and wound up flirting with a record, grabbing the British Open lead after Thursday’s first round with a 6-under-par 64 that left him one off the major championship scoring record.

BOXING: Guerrero, Aydin hold colorful conference call

If respect is what Selcuk Aydin in looking for, he may want to consider going about finding it a different way.  A usually routine activity took an awkward turn Thursday when Aydin chose a bizarre method of defiance and refused to participate in a conference call with Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero.

Common poorwill mistakenly ‘saved,’ brought to WERC

Garlic ice cream, garlic Jelly Bellies, garlic cheesecake, garlic grasshoppers. Well, maybe the last won’t be offered at the Gilroy Garlic Festival (July 27-29) this year, but who knows? The parents of this unusual little baby bird just might have acquired a taste for spicy bugs when they set up “housing” next door to a Gilroy garlic stand.   

Behind the scenes of Vacation Bible School

Each spring I write a column providing information about Vacation Bible Schools or Day Camps offered by local churches. Some readers have said it’s helpful and that they look forward to reading it in the newspaper. Of course, each program is as different as the congregation sponsoring it, but they have many aspects in common: volunteer workers, hours of planning time, a carefully crafted curriculum and a devotion to sharing God’s love with children from the community.

Badwater Report

Hats off to Pam Reed and the SVRC crew for a great finish at this year's Badwater Ultramarathon. Pam finished 2nd among women and 17th overall with a time of 31:06:43. It wasn't super hot this year but it was very windy.

Barney in a box

Foster momma Barnadette (in rear), the educational barn owl at the Wildlife Education & Rehabiliation Center, has ceded her housing box to the baby barn owl nicknamed “Burrito Barney” (June 27).  He appears to be mimicking her “threat” behavior—glaring, head low and swaying, wings splayed.  

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