Tag: sports
Swimming: San Benito Aquatics looks for continued growth
Swimming is more than just an exercise for the nearly 100 participants at San Benito Aquatics every week. To those kids - ranging from as young as eight to as old as 17 - swimming is a stable dream and an end to a means.
Bruce Lewis: Learning golf from Buster Posey
We can learn balance and posture for our golf swing from other sports. In golf, the address position is a very athletic ready position. In the position, golfers bend at their hips and knees while keeping their back straight. Weight should be balanced on the balls of golfer’s feet.
Baseball: Babe Ruth All-Stars drop opening game of regional tourney
The San Benito 14-year-old Babe Ruth All-Star team struggled in the start of the Pacific Southwest Regional tournament in Surprise, Arizona on Tuesday. Behind five errors, San Benito fell to the Tucson Bobcats 7-3 in the opening game of the tournament.
MLB: Giants and Dodgers keep up off the field, too
Hunter Pence, still in transit, was not in the Giants' lineup Tuesday. Nor was Shane Victorino, similarly dealt that morning by the Philadelphia Phillies, starting for the Dodgers.
Boxing: Guerrero wins unanimous decision, claims WBC interim welterweight title
Doors have been closed in front of Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero as he has chased down boxing supremacy. He has found ways to fight through all of them. Opportunity knocked Saturday night and Guerrero powerfully paraded his way right through one more obstacle, coming out on the other side as the WBC Interim Welterweight world champion.
Basketball: Miskin leads AAU team to championship
Trailing by three points with less than 10 second left in regulation San Benito High’s Hyram Miskin had control of the ball. Playing for the Seaside’s Finest under-16 Amateur Athletic Union basketball team in the AAU West Coast National Championship game Sunday in Las Vegas, the game fell on Miskin’s shoulders.
YMCA to expand middle school sports
Two years after the Hollister School District removed athletics from its schools and the YMCA swooped in to offer middle school basketball, the Y is looking to expand its student-athlete programs.
Baseball: Hollister-filled San Jose Colt team to play for World Series...
Looking for another way to play baseball beyond San Benito Babe Ruth, Robert Fabing decided to gather a group of 14 players spanning the varsity, junior varsity and freshman levels at San Benito and take them to San Jose for the first time this year.
Olympics: London prepares to save surprise, welcome the world
LONDON - These 2012 Olympics have been dubbed The Twitter Games, the first in history to feel a major impact from social media as athletes share everything from their patriotic feelings to their lunch choices with legions of followers. Already, a racist 140-character joke by Greece's star triple jumper Voula Papachristou got her expelled from the Olympics on Wednesday, making her the first athlete in history to lose her spot for a social media posting.
MLB: Giants to host 2013 World Baseball Classic finals
San Francisco’s AT&T Park will host the semis and finals of the 2013 World Baseball Classic, Major League Baseball announced Wednesday.
