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Mountain Lions win in overtime over Omaha - OMAHA, Neb. (Oct. 21, 2011) - Friday night, the Sacramento Mountain Lions came from behind to defeat the Omaha Nighthawks in overtime, 25-19, in the 2011 United Football League season finale for both teams. With the victory in Friday night's consolation game, Sacramento finished the season in third place in the UFL. The contest got off to a slow start, as Sacramento’s... Read More |
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Sacramento beats Virginia 27-20 in overtime - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Oct. 15, 2011) - Just eight days after losing 28-6 to the same opponent on the road in Virginia, Sacramento scraped a miraculous 27-20 overtime victory, giving the Mountain Lions their first win of the season and handing the Destroyers their first loss. With no timeouts remaining late in the fourth quarter, first-time starting quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson hit Otis Amey down the middle on fourth-and-15 with the game on the line down by seven. On the next play... Read More |
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Virginia destroys Mountain Lions 28-6 - VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (Oct. 7, 2011) - Dominic Rhodes rushed for a record 217 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Virginia Destroyers to a 28-6 victory over the Sacramento Mountain Lions before a crowd of 12,617 in United Football League action on Friday night at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex. Rhodes’ 217 yards, on 18 carries, shattered the UFL single-game rushing... Read More |
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Mountain Lions lose on last second field goal - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Oct. 1, 2011) - A last-second 39-yard field goal earned the Omaha Nighthawks a dramatic 33-30 victory over the Mountain Lions in front of 17,612 fans in Sacramento behind an impressive night from quarterback Jeremiah Masoli and the visitors' up-tempo offense. The game had been tied at 30-30 and looked to be heading to overtime, but with Omaha facing third and 10 from their own 35, Masoli found a wide-open... Read More |
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Las Vegas outlasts Sacramento 23-17 - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Sept.17, 2011) - Jim Fassel's two-time defending champion Las Vegas Locomotives took their first step towards securing an unprecedented third-straight UFL crown with a 23-17 victory on the road over the Sacramento Mountain Lions. Sacramento rallied in the fourth quarter, cutting a 13-point deficit to trail by six just inside the two-minute warning, but recovered an onside kick a yard shy of the required legal ten yards the ball must travel and Las Vegas was able to... Read More |
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Quakes rumble into town for 42-13 win over Sacramento - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Apr. 30, 2011) - After looking good in their first two games of the season, the Sacramento Sirens experienced possibly their worst game in years as the team experienced turnovers, misplays and penalties en route to a 42-13 defeat at the hands of the California Quake on their home field at Natomas High School. Coming off a bye week last week, the Sirens looked as though they might continue their dominance over opponents as they scored... Read More |
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Sirens move to 2-0 with 45-20 win over Jynx - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Apr. 16, 2011) - Led by rookie Katie George's three touchdowns, the Sacramento Sirens upped their early-season record to 2-0 with a 45-20 victory over the Utah Jynx at Natomas High School. Sacramento, coming off a 21-14 win the previous week at Modesto, wasted no time getting on the scoreboard as they put a touchdown up with 13:21 left in the first quarter... Read More |
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Mountain Lions dominate Omaha Nighthawks 41-3 - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Nov. 13, 2010) - Sacramento kept its championship hopes alive in emphatic fashion Saturday night. And now the Mountain Lions can only wait and watch. Sacramento beat the Omaha Nighthawks 41-3, eliminating the Nighthawks from UFL Championship Game contention. Sacramento (4-4), which concluded its regular season, now needs Omaha (3-4) to defeat... Read More |
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Sacramento Mountain Lions defeat Las Vegas Locos 27-24 - LAS VEGAS, Nev. (Nov. 6, 2010) - The Sacramento Mountain Lions kept their title game hopes alive by building a huge first-half lead and hanging on late to defeat first-place Las Vegas, 27-24, Saturday night at Sam Boyd Stadium. Fabrizio Scaccia’s 44-yard field goal with 1:37 remaining broke a 24-all tie. On the first play of Las Vegas’ ensuing drive, Josh Savage stripped... Read More |
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Mountain Lions lose to Hartford Colonials
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Oct. 30, 2010) -
Taylor Mehlhaff made a 23-yard game-winning field goal as time expired to lift the Hartford Colonials to a 27-26 victory over the Sacramento Mountain Lions on Saturday night. Just 28 seconds earlier, Mehlhaff missed an attempt at a 43-yard game-winner, but Sacramento’s Terrelle Maze was penalized for running into the kicker, keeping the drive alive... Read More |
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Mountain Lions defeat Florida Tuskers 21-17 - ORLANDO, Florida (Oct. 21, 2010) - Drives, defense and drama made Daunte Culpepper’s return to the Florida Citrus Bowl even more memorable Thursday. Who else but Culpepper, playing in his collegiate stadium for the first time since 1999, to score the Sacramento Mountain Lions’ go-ahead touchdown on a 10-yard quarterback draw with two minutes remaining that gave Sacramento... Read More |
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Las Vegas crushes Sacramento 26-3 - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Oct. 15, 2010) - The words were profound in their simplicity. “Losing sucks – period.” Running back Cory Ross stood in a quiet hallway, the last Mountain Lions player to leave the locker room following a 26-3 loss to the Las Vegas Locomotives in front of Sacramento’s estimated home crowd of 19,000 fans on Friday night. “The way we lost is just upsetting,” Ross said. “You can lose... Read More |
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Omaha Nighthawks beat Sacramento 20-17 - OMAHA, Neb. (Oct. 2, 2010) - Before a second straight sellout crowd at Rosenblatt Stadium, the Omaha Nighthawks treated their fans to another thrilling win, rallying for the second straight game in the fourth quarter to beat the Sacramento Mountain Lions 20-17 on Saturday night. Nighthawks’ quarterback Jeff Garcia found tight end Jeb Putzier wide open in the back of the end zone... Read More |
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Lions beat Florida 24-20 in thriller - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Sept. 25, 2010) - Sacramento waited 16 years for professional football to return and on Saturday it did so in dramatic fashion. Sacramento quarterback Daunte Culpepper hit wide receiver Rod Windsor for a 33-yard touchdown pass – Windsor's second touchdown reception of the night – with 31 seconds remaining to give the host Mountain Lions a memorable home... Read More |
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Colonials send Mountain Lions down to opening day defeat - HARTFORD, Conneticut (Sept. 18, 2010) - The Hartford Colonials made the return of professional football to Hartford a successful one with a 27-10 victory over the Sacramento Mountain Lions before 14,384 fans at Rentschler Field Saturday in the opening contest of the 2010 United Football League season. The Colonials defense limited the Mountain Lions to 35 yards on the ground. Read More |
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Mountain Lions show off new logo and QB Culpepper - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (June 9, 2010) - When I heard several months ago that the new United Football League (UFL) was going to relocate its San Francisco Redwoods franchise to Sacramento for the 2010 season, I experienced mixed emotions. Like many other Sacramento football fans, I had to endure the loss of the Sacramento Surge (World League of American Football)... Read More |
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Sirens dominate competition in early games - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Apr. 19, 2009) - Ordinarily you would associate April with the start of the professional baseball season. But for hundreds of women around the country, April is time for football, as the teams that make up the Independent Women's Football League (IWFL) begin play. Founded in 2000, the IWFL has just over 40 teams scattered across the country. Read More |
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Toni Tennille (November 2005) - It’s been 10 years since Toni Tennille and husband Daryl Dragon released a recording as the Captain & Tennille. Their CD, 20 Years of Romance, in 1995 celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. The Captain & Tennille debuted in 1975 when they released the best-selling song of the year, Love Will Keep Us Together, and a long string of hits and a TV show followed. Read More |
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Kickland Author Kevin Hayes (November 2002) - Kevin Hayes is a lawyer by trade, but his interest in cross country skiing prompted him to write KICKLAND, a fictional adventure of an aging Olympic cross country skier trying to make a comeback. Kevin granted Sierra Ski News an interview from his home in Michigan to talk more about KICKLAND and his passion for XC skiing. Read More |
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Folk Singer Steve Gillette (March
2001) - Steve Gillette and his wife Cindy
Mangsen are
America’s premier folk duo. Steve has written songs for Garth Brooks,
John Denver, Kenny Rogers, Anne Murray, Linda Ronstadt, Waylon Jennings
and Tammy Wynette to name only a few. He’s the author of Songwriting
and the Creative Process - and he also loves skiing! Gillette lives in
Vermont, but he began
skiing in California where he grew up. Read
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Iain Fraser (January 2000) - Iain Fraser, player-coach for the Sacramento Knights of the World Indoor Soccer League, has had a busy past few months. Fraser was named as the WISL’s Defender-of-the-Year and Coach-of-the-Year as the Knights recorded a 17-5 regular-season record. Posting a 7-6 win over the Dallas Sidekicks at ARCO Arena on Dec. 12, the Fraser-led Knights captured the WISL Championship. Read More |
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Roller Derby - Part IV (Oct. 9, 1991) - About a month ago when I finished up my three-part series of articles on Roller Derby, I had heard that a benefit game was planned for a high school in Vallejo. Sept. 28 they had that game and I was invited to attend. It probably had been over 10 years since I had seen a live Roller Derby game. Perhaps even longer. My memory fades off into the mists of time. When I showed up at Hogan High School, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I had no idea who would be skating, if they even had teams... Read More |
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Roller Derby - Part III (Aug. 28, 1991) - After Roller Derby migrated from the East Coast to the West Coast in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the game began to thrive again in its new environment. The early 1960s saw three different organizations running Roller Derby on the West Coast, each competing within itself and also sharing... Read More |
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Roller Derby - Part II (Aug. 21, 1991) - When David Lipschultz started the Roller Derby back up in 1977, it was a dream come true for many of the skaters who had been in the old Jerry Seltzer-owned Derby that preceded it. Names like Charlie O'Connell, Joan Weston, Tony Roman, Larry Smith, Francine Cochu and Ann Calvello returned to the banked track that had made them famous. For most of the skaters, the Derby was a way of life. Read More |
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Roller Derby - Part I (Aug. 14, 1991) - (This is the first of a series of articles I wrote on Roller Derby while working for a weekly paper in the Sacramento, California area). While going through some old boxes the other night, I dug out an autograph book that brought back a lot of memories. Hand-painted on the cover with enamel model airplane paint in brown and orange letters it said - Bay Bombers (1971). Visions of the Memorial Auditorium in downtown Sacramento suddenly sprang into my head - of a banked skating... Read More |
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