Pops’ Grandson
My wife and I were back at Evans Stadium in Cal Berkeley on Mother’s Day, April 12, mainly to watch Cal first baseman
Fire on High Greenwood
At 5:50 in the early morning of Friday, November 16, 2018, my wife woke me up to say the house was on fire and we had to get out quickly or we would die. We ran outside and asked where it started. Joanadele said, “It seemed to be coming from the porch.” Suddenly, I remembered […]
AV Wins Second Championship In A Row
Saturday, November 7, 2015, a day that will live on the memories of Anderson Valley football fans. It was the high school football championship game for North Coast League III between the Anderson Valley Panthers versus the Upper Lake Cougars at Upper Lake. It was a mild, sunny day in Upper Lake, a perfect day […]
AV Panthers Are League Champs!
On a wild and wonderful day, the Anderson Valley Panthers Football team defeated the good and proud Point Arena Pirates in Point Arena 42 to 22. With this impressive win, the Panthers have sewn up the league championship for 2014. Congratulations to Coach Dan Kuny and all of his excellent football players. As the final […]
The Conference Championships
The San Francisco 49ers game against the Seattle Seahawks at Centurylink Stadium in Seattle was a bare knuckle brawl of a football game. The Seahawks ground out a 23-17 win.
Sports Notes
‘Flick’ McDonald, coach of this year’s championship girls volleyball team, has retired. His legacy is of an AV High girls volleyball program of sustained excellence for 30 years, plus the admiration and fondness for him by his Lady Panthers and their families. He has won more games and championships than any other coach in Anderson […]
49ers & Incognito
As most of you probably know, the 49ers lost to the Carolina Panthers on November 10th in Candlestick Park on a sunny San Francisco day. Carolina does have a superb defense but their offense, not so much. The 49ers drove to the Carolina two yard line where I thought Frank Gore, the magnificent “bell cow” […]
Sports Notes
I was out of the Valley two Saturdays ago when our AV Panthers Varsity football team defeated the visiting Laytonville Warriors, 62-16. The varsity Panthers had a 5 win/3 loss record this season to finish third in League standings. The three players who missed all of the Point Arena loss, or most of it, all […]
Pirates Best Panthers
It was the 2013 Homecoming Game, and the Anderson Valley Panthers were playing the Point Arena Pirates for the right to play the Mendocino Cardinals on November 9th for the NCL III Football Championship. It was another big game, but as the players took the field, game announcer Ernie Pardini and I didn’t realize that […]
The Big Game
The big football match-up between the league’s top two teams, the AV High School Panthers and the Mendocino High School Cardinals, was played in Mendocino Saturday beneath a beautiful blue sky and a warm sparkling sun with the Pacific Ocean gleaming in the background. Mendocino, coached by Theron Miller and Sam Gitchell, came back strong […]
Sports Notes
The San Francisco 49ers are being overly cautious this season. GM Trent Baalke may be getting into Coach Jim Harbaugh’s head too much. It seems that management wants to take the legs away from the 49er’s second year quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick became a rookie sensation last year running the “read-option” offense so spectacularly. But […]