Sports

Candy Cane Classic Basketball Tournament to be held this weekend

The 30th annual McKelvey and Banks Candy Cane Classic Basketball Tournament will be held Friday through Sunday. Boys and girls ages 14 and under will...

An appreciation for Richmond native and Oregon State football player Fred Thompson

The outpouring of articles and comments about him was staggering, but not surprising. Neither were the makeshift memorials promptly assembled on both the Tech and...

Young Athlete brings hope to Richmond

Kenneth Walker, a senior at Kennedy High School, is one of the school’s great success stories, an accomplished young man who will attend UC Berkeley...

A morning at Golden Gate Fields: Thoroughbreds, luck and the future of Northern California racing

Ed Moger, a Richmond resident and horse trainer, sat alone among the rows of grandstand seats high above Golden Gate Fields. One hand grasped a...

Richmond Rockets suffer first loss to San Francisco Rumble

For the Richmond Rockets, it was a game of two halves. And a Richmond audience of roughly 800 people did not want to believe the...

Piedmont defeats Kennedy, keeping Eagles from playoffs

The Piedmont Highlanders defeated the Kennedy Eagles 37-31 in a tough, physical, closely fought game Thursday. The Eagles’ playoff hopes ended on a cold night...

Rockets blast off: team wins first game of the season

This was a night for the underdogs. The Richmond Rockets, the city’s new American Basketball Association team, defeated reigning conference champs the Bay Area Matrix...

Richmond High caps season with another loss but looks ahead to next year

While De Anza High celebrated on the field, passing around the Richmond Cup, Richmond High’s star senior Isaiah Brown wept on the sidelines after a...

Kennedy Eagles find their wings

For the first time in 20 years, the Kennedy Eagles have a shot at the playoffs. If the team defeats Piedmont High School Thursday, first-year...

It’s game time: Richmond Rockets debut Thursday

On Thursday at 7:30 p.m. the Rockets will make their American Basketball Association debut at Richmond’s Civic Center Memorial Auditorium against the Pacific North Conference...

Donation gives youth tennis program a boost

Richmond resident Jeremy Wallace spent a large part of his childhood on the tennis courts at Nicholl Park. From age nine through his teenage years,...

Eagles keep heads high despite big loss

The Encinal Jets swept aside the Kennedy Eagles 55-22 Friday night. But even as the Eagles walked off the the field for what was for...

Eagles dominate their homecoming game, 52-19

Even though the Kennedy Eagles were winning their homecoming game 14-13 going into the second quarter, the score was uncomfortably close, making the team and...