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I had a bit of a crazy weekend, or at least a crazy moment on the weekend, Saturday night while running in the 10K race at the Howlin' at the Moon fun run put on by the Bakersfield Police Department. Read here for what happened; my thoughts and prayers go out to the young man running in...
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Yesterday the United States stunned top-ranked Spain, shutting them out 2-0, along with goals by Jozy Altidore and Clint Dempsey, advancing to the Confederations Cup final for the very first time in US history with one of the Americans’ biggest soccer victories of all time.
The chances of...
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By Matthew Martz - Official Brigade Staff Writer
The Bakersfield Brigade (0-4-1) were shutout for the third straight time, 2-0 on two late goals, extending the clubs winless streak to five, in Saturday’s match against the Los Angeles Legends at BCHS Stadium in Bakersfield.
The...
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The Bakersfield Brigade (0-3-1) were shutout for the second straight match by the Hollywood United Hitmen, 4-0, extending their losing streak to three Saturday at Stadium by the Sea in Santa Monica.
The Hitmen (3-0-0) out-shot the Brigade 13-3 but could not find a way to tuck it behind Brigade...
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In the lyrical context of punk pop stars the Clash, “Should I stay or should I go” seems to be the ballad of David Beckham who has made it clear that he wants to play for Italy’s AC Milan.
Beckham, 33, who is on a two-month loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy and is due back in...
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It's a crazy one in the office tonight with boys and girls soccer Central Section championships and boys basketball quarterfinals roaring along all over the Valley. I went to Frontier to watch the school unveil the new lights on its stadium and then the Titans girls soccer team, which won...
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The Chinese are calling this the Year of the Ox, and that's fine and dandy. Oxen are strong, formidable animals with a good reputation, I guess, though I don't know the first two things about them.
But strong, formidable teams in Kern County aren't the story of the year so far in high...
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UPDATE, 8:32 p.m.: And that'll do it. A 3-1 final in favor of Golden Valley. Hope you've enjoyed the live blogging. I'll update scores throughout the night, so continue to check back. One update I just received: Garces' girls went to overtime with 11th-seeded Reedley in Division...
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Well, that was a lost weekend. Sorry I wasn't able to post more updates from Lemoore and the wrestling, but at first I had computer problems, and then I just got too busy. But I'll make up for it with an exquisite post tonight. Or at least an average one, right?
All three winter sports are...
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Had a fun day yesterday, running around to surprise my fiancée with some gifts and then checking out a couple of league wrestling tournaments. There weren't many surprises — Bakersfield High dominated, as did some spectacular individual wrestlers like Centennial's Seth Hicks,...
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League champions are rolling in left and right, with soccer season over tonight and basketball just a week behind.
Here's what we know so far:
Boys soccer
SEYL — Golden Valley (9-2-1 in league)
SWYL — West (11-0-1)
SSL — Wasco (8-2-0)
Girls soccer
SEYL — Liberty...
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So with the regular season in soccer wrapping up in the next two days and basketball just a week behind and wrestling's league tournaments starting tomorrow with the SSL meet at Bakersfield Christian, is it too early to hand out awards for winter sports?
Well, yes. Yes it is. I always...
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Girls rankings below or at this link.
1. Fresno-Bullard (16-3-2, 6-0-1 CMAC, Division I) — After a head-scratcher of an opening loss to Visalia-Redwood, the Knights haven't lost to Central Section competition. Are they vulnerable? A bunch of close games says yes.
2....
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A big drumroll for you fans of the beautiful game ... here is the School House Zach debut of Central Section soccer rankings!
A quick disclaimer before we begin: Soccer coaches seem to be the worst of any at updating MaxPreps, so some of these records will be off, and some don't even have...
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Three quick items to note before I get to work on this week's basketball rankings.
— Had an interesting time at the Kern County Invitational this afternoon, a new tournament hosted by Centennial that coach Mike Hicks is trying to grow into a late-season local must-see like East's Coyote...
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Here's the girls side of the inside look feature I tried the other day with some boys events. I'm going to have to fudge a bit on this one, because the games I'm using were played at the same time, so I obviously wasn't at one of them. In this case, that's the soccer game, but I'll do my...
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Last week I laid out a sort-of planner of big events for the rest of the regular season in the winter sports. This week I'm going to do some actual analysis, which, I'm told, is where I try to tell you what I think about some of those games.
Eh, at least I'll try. Let's go with a big...
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Here are thoughts on Bakersfield's new league structure, from myself and copy editors Ron Stapp and Todd Camps in audio form. Also a few minutes of basketball and wrestling discussion are included.
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We've got an entire gaggle of news items to get through, and then I want to talk big hoops dates the rest of the season.
— First off, the city of Bakersfield is getting proactive about raising its high school sports profile. Bako's Convention and Visitors Bureau has placed a bid with the...
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This weekend, top-of-the-table Internazionale looked anything but. They were not only humiliated in the first half against mid-table Atalanta (3:0), but played the second :45 as if they were a pick-up squad, never having seen eachother or practiced together before the match. Poor crosses, bad...
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OK, OK, I thought about going with "Girls soccer, come on down" as the title today, but a joke is only funny for so long. Going to have to give that one up.
Today is the time for girls soccer, where the big three are (again) Bakersfield, Stockdale and Liberty. In what...
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I love predictive text. You know, like when your phone interprets you typing in two letters and tries to guess what word you're writing? Like "dating" turns to "eating," or "Smirnoff" turns to "smashed." (No kids, we don't condone alcohol use at...
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Yes, thank you very much, I enjoyed my mini-vacation to the coast this weekend. Rained a bit, but I'll bet it was nicer there than it was — well, than it was pretty much anywhere else.
But I'm back. And I'm rested. And I'm, uh, going on vacation again next week! But in the meantime, I'm...
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Since when has soccer been more American? Multi-million dollar contracts, league suspensions, banning fans from coming to matches indefinitely following racially charged insults, and steroids scandals. Does it get any more American than that?
With headlines that rival other major American...
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The highlights in high school soccer are usually few and far between, but fortunately someone on the Highland sidelines had a video camera running during a recent game when Carlos Placencia stepped up to take a free kick last night against BHS.
David Beckham would have been pleased with this...
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Reporter Jenny Shearer found out that private soccer fields may be on the way to southwest Bakersfield, near the Auto Mall, if they get the OK from the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
Check out her full report here.
Those who want to build them don't want to wait for city or county officials...
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Time for a couple of quick updates before the weekend ...
Bakersfield High's Travis Rasmussen began his run at All-American status at the Senior Nationals wrestling tournament in Virginia Beach, Va., today. He was 1-1, beating an Arizona wrestler 11-4 before losing to an Illionis wrestler 4-2 in...
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I'm a third party person... looking from the outside in, but what is the deal with the Brigade vs Gunners Club Soccer all about?
I'm not a fan of either group, but I do see that there is another split happening. I'm not surprised. But what is the meaning of discontent? The...
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Not sure if anyone will end up reading this... but it will be fun to hear people's opinions.
Who are the All Area Girls and Boys Soccer nominees, in your opinion? Looking at the Central Section stats from MaxPreps.com... Kern County has 11 players in the top 25 for scoring in girls and...
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UPDATE: For some reason, the links I'm throwing into the text aren't working. Until I can get someone to figure that out for me, here are the links I'm trying to lead you to below:
No. 1 — rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp
No. 2 — www.bakersfield.com/225/story/358632.html
No....
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Just heard an articulate debate between Condors writer Mike Griffith and Web junkie Steve Swenson discussing the merits of soccer and hockey.
I can't repeat the banter verbatim but it was something like: "Soccer is for 5 and 6 years that haven't devoloped the ability to use their arms and...
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We're a Bakersfield girls club soccer team looking for a new coach. We've been playing Coastal and the league season just ended. We're mostly high school 11th graders on various high school varsity teams. We've been together a few years and know each other, like each...
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Forget the World Cup. This is fascinating!Watch robo dogs play soccer!http://current.tv/studio/me...
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