Hamlin wins pole at Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. — Don't tell Denny Hamlin his first pole of the season isn't significant.In the money round of Friday's knockout qualifying session, the driver of the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota...
View ArticleFernandez outpitches Kershaw as Marlins top Dodgers
MIAMI — It must be pretty special to be disappointed with a 14-strikeout pitching performance, but that's where Jose Fernandez finds himself, especially when he is at Marlins Park, where he is nearly...
View ArticleBeltre's blast lifts Rangers over Angels
ANAHEIM — Adrian Beltre's one-out homer in the eighth inning snapped a 1-1 tie and lifted the Texas Rangers to a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night at Angel Stadium.The win for the...
View ArticleRidgeview gets on winning track against Frontier
The most winning football program in Kern County over the past eight years finally got its first W of the season.Ridgeview beat Frontier 41-20 at Titan Stadium on Friday, improving to 74-23 since 2009.
View ArticleFresno-Central routs Liberty, 38-0
Yes, that was the Liberty Patriots, the Central Section champions and No. 1 team in BVarsity’s section rankings, roaming the western sideline at Liberty on Friday night.It just didn’t look anything...
View ArticleBakersfield pro baseball stays alive as Blaze edges San Jose
The Bakersfield Blaze had a message for Minor League Baseball and the California League Friday night:Don’t bury us yet.
View ArticleGarces rolls over Tehachapi
The pleasantries of one of the oldest rivalries in Kern County ended the minute the first whistle blew in a game that was out of hand before the first quarter ended.Garces put a hurting on Tehachapi in...
View ArticleWeek 3: High school football roundup
Taft scored 24 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to beat Porterville on the road 31-24.Robert Cozine, who missed last week’s loss to Porterville-Monache because of a concussion and then sat out...
View ArticleRoadrunner women fall in soccer
Eastern Washington took a 2-0 lead five minutes into the game and went on to beat Cal State Bakersfield 3-1 on Friday night in a women’s soccer game at CSUB.Sabrina Delgado scored two minutes into the...
View ArticleAfter decades of waiting, development coming to valuable patch of dirt
Virtually everyone in Bakersfield knows of it.The 14-acre patch of dirt at one of the busiest, most coveted commercial intersections in the city has remained inexplicably empty for decades, even as the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Bakersfield College gets shout-out on College Gameday
It normally deals only with the Alabamas and Ohio States of the world, but College Gameday, ESPN’s iconic Saturday morning college football program had a shout-out for none other than Bakersfield...
View ArticleThe last Festival of Roses? Maybe not.
Nobody heeds a call to action like Kern County, and Wasco is no different. Following the news that the Festival of Roses would be ending after Saturday's event if another group didn't take it on when...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: BC football vs. Chaffey College
UPDATED, 7:10 p.m.: BC scores again on a Gallis touchdown pass to take a 21-17 lead with 1:22 left in the half, but a big kickoff return by Chaffey sets up a short field goal try just before halftime,...
View ArticleLetter to the editor: What will it take to secure that crosswalk?
We have lived at the corner of 18th and Cedar streets, where the crosswalk crosses to Franklin School, for 30 years. Over those years we have been witness to or viewers of numerous serious vehicle...
View ArticleU-Haul making a move on long-vacant Target building
Bakersfield's city zoning board green-lighted a key permit Tuesday that paves the way for the sale of a long-vacant southwest Target building to U-Haul, which will convert it into a truck rental and...
View ArticleWoman wanted in stabbing outside downtown bar
A woman is wanted in a stabbing that occurred outside a downtown bar last month.
View ArticleFinding Mr. Brown, Part 2: Man's search for teacher takes twists, turns
On Sunday I told you about Dean Evans, a Texas teacher who grew up in Bakersfield and has been searching for a long-lost teacher, Mr. Brown, whom he credits with saving his life in the fifth grade,...
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