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For today's Year in Review, I'm bringing out Kern's Sunday best — Emily Irvin, Stockdale's swimming extraordinaire, to be exact. Actually, she was good on any day of the week, especially on Saturdays in May.
2007-08 Kern County GIRLS SWIMMING
Overview: Emily Irvin dominated the...
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So, about that one-post-per-day thing ...
True story — I'm laying in bed last night, just turned off the light trying to decide if I'm going to be too hot (who isn't these days) and then it hits me: I didn't do a boys swimming Year in Review! This might not keep many awake at night, but I...
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Two guys recently drowned in the Kern River, one of whom apparently left home without his brain that day and decided that a child's plastic inflatable pool toy would keep him afloat; the fact that he could not swim must have slipped his mind. Rescue workers are currently working on finding...
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Larsen Jensen has already earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Gabe Woodward will begin his quest Wednesday. Because I moved here in December 2006, I never witnessed any of their individual athletic feats.
It's part of the business. Sportswriters can go several years, if not a lifetime,...
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Using banned substances to get ahead has permeated almost all of the sporting world, and now (just in time for the Beijing Olympics) a top American swimmer is saying his sport is rife with cheats.
Read the story here.
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(This is a long post, so, skip it unless you feel like torturing yourself.)
OK - these things seem to happen to me a lot, so, I should have seen this coming...
But...
NEVER seeing these things coming ALSO happens to me a lot!
I have this 12 yr old, L-shaped swimming pool. For the last 2...
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It's been an eternity since my last post here — if you hadn't noticed, we had a pretty big throwing story we ran this week, and we wrapped up section track finals. Anyway, my apologies. I promise to make up for it with a nice, long, involved playoff glance here.
Let's start in baseball....
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First things first: An update on something I mentioned in a couple of blogs last week, wrestling's Senior Nationals tournament in Virginia Beach, Va.
The tournament is a huge deal for wrestlers as far as measuring themselves against state placers from around the country — and more...
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Hey, hey, everybody. Welcome back from Spring Break. Lots to talk about this spring, including teachers' involuntary transfers to other schools, which could split up coaches from their teams and from each other. We'll also keep an eye on some track and field standouts — Foothill's Dayshan...
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Swimming at a public pool is already cheap ($1 for most pools, $3 at McMurtrey).
But on July 17, if you donate a bathing suit at a City of Bakersfield pool, you get to swim for FREE. What's better than doing some good AND getting a freebie out of it?
But this has to be an extra bathing suit...
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Six people have already accidentally drowned this year.
Help make sure you and your loved ones aren't added to that tally.
The health department, Department of Human Services and the fire department offer the following tips on having a safe Memorial Day and summer.
Home safety:
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