Posted 9:40 PM 5/29/2012 by Andrew Masuda
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - San Antonio is halfway to turning the Western Conference finals into a runaway. Tony Parker scored 34 points, Manu Ginobili added 20 and the Spurs stayed perfect in the playoffs with a 120-111 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 2 on Tuesday night. (More)
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Posted 8:25 PM 5/29/2012 by Andrew Masuda
A run-scoring single in the bottom of the tenth inning by shortstop Mylz Jones knocked out the Lompoc High baseball team from the CIF title hunt on Tuesday. The Braves fell 3-2 in 10 innings at Paraclete, the top seed in Division 5.
The Spirits improved to 26-2 and won their 21st-straight (More)
Posted 8:22 PM 5/29/2012 by Andrew Masuda
The Nipomo High softball team's historic postseason ended with a 1-0 Division 5 semifinal loss at top seeded and defendinc CIF champion La Canada on Tuesday. The Spartans scored the only run of the game in the bottom of the sixth inning on a slicing basehit to left field that allowed the runner (More)
Posted 6:45 PM 5/29/2012 by Bill Halter
For a second straight year the Dunn baseball team's season ended in the CIF-Southern Section semifinals. The Earwigs lost 14-2 to Hillcrest Christian at home in Los Olivos on Tuesday.
Hillcrest Christian scored three runs in the second inning to take the lead. The Eagles then (More) • Video (1)
Posted 5:42 PM 5/29/2012 by Andrew Masuda
Cal Poly centerfielder Mitch Haniger was named the Big West Conference's Player of the Year on Tuesday. The junior is the first Mustang to receive the honor since Grant Desme back in 2007.
Haniger led the Big West with 13 home runs, 64 RBI, 132 total bases, 7 sacrifice flies and a .626 (More) • Video (1)
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Posted 5:39 PM 5/29/2012 by Andrew Masuda
The New Orleans Saints signed former Cal Poly offensive lineman Scott Winnewisser on Tuesday. The 6-5, 301 pound Santa Barbara native joins the team after participating with 63 other free agents, rookie draft picks and veterans in the Saints' rookie mini-camp earlier this month.
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Posted 5:38 PM 5/29/2012 by Andrew Masuda
Morro Bay High School celebrated the past and future athletic accomplishments of boys basketball and volleyball star Edward Griley on Tuesday. The 6-7 Griley signed his scholarship papers to play basketball at California Lutheran University, which is in Thousand Oaks.
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Posted 12:41 PM 5/29/2012 by The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Prosecutors have rested their case in the perjury trial of Roger Clemens. The government called the last of its 24 witnesses Tuesday, concluding 19 days of testimony. The last witness was a toxicologist from the FBI who testified about the various forms of vitamin (More)
Posted 9:55 AM 5/28/2012 by Bill Halter
A 36-20 record and second place finish in the Big West Conference wasn't good enough to earn the Cal Poly baseball team a bid to the NCAA playoffs. The 64 team field was announced on Monday morning. Big West champion Cal State Fullerton (35-19) is the only team from the (More) • Video (1)
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Posted 5:07 PM 5/27/2012 by Bill Halter
It was a perfect final day of the regular season for the Cal Poly baseball team. The Mustangs won at UC-Riverside, 6-0 and CS-Fullerton beat Long Beach State, 5-1. The win is the Mustangs seventh in a row and 14th in their last 17 games. Cal Poly finishes the regular season (More)
Posted 2:38 PM 5/27/2012 by Bill Halter
San Luis Obispo High School graduate Townsend Bell finished ninth at the Indianapolis 500. It was Bell's second best finish in six tries at the biggest race Indycar Series race of the year, he finished fourth in 2009.
Dario Franchitti won the Indianapolis (More)
Posted 10:54 PM 5/26/2012 by Bill Halter
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Junior Dos Santos flattened Frank Mir with a huge right hand and finished him on the ground at 3:04 of the second round Saturday night, emphatically defending his heavyweight title at UFC 146 on Saturday night.Dos Santos (15-1) picked apart the two-time ex-champion (More)