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Sac State stocks up on offense, defense

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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 1:27 p.m.
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Bee file, 2008. Marques White (88) and Doug Drakeley (52) of Vista Del Lago pick up a sack in a 2008 game against Casa Roble. On Wednesday, White signed with Sacramento State, Drakeley with UC Davis ... Sacramento State football coach Marshall Sperbeck sounded pleased Wednesday with his latest recruiting class, and especially happy with the Hornets' haul in the trenches ... "I feel like we really have gotten better each year as far as the type of kids and the type of player we're getting into

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Hometown Report: Decade passes, but memories linger

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Published Jan. 2, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.

If the freshly closed decade offered one thing, it was this: variety ... This isn't just a Kings town ... It's an all-sports region with a decade of achievement, milestones and personal and program growth, from the high schools to college to the professional ranks. A peek back: ... Big-time Bruschi comeback – Ten days after New England's victory in Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005, Tedy Bruschi finally looked human to those from his hometown of Roseville who always wondered otherwise. He had a stroke.

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Programs bring life back to many closed Sacramento-area K-12 campuses

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Published Oct. 28, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Annette Deglow, president of the College Glen Neighborhood Association, credits the Sacramento City Unified School District with maintaining Thomas Jefferson Elementary but is concerned about a Montessori school moving there ... Children no longer play on the jungle gym at 49-year-old Billy Mitchell Elementary School in North Sacramento, but inside its stark white halls teenagers are taking classes in math, computer science and French ... The San Juan Unified School District campus has found new

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Prep volleyball notes: Granite Bay's coach is solid as a rock

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Published Oct. 28, 2009 at 2:37 p.m.

At the time, it was no more than a polite compliment, words of encouragement from one coach to another ... Nine years later, Terry Stafford looks like quite the prophet ... At a volleyball tournament in the Bay Area nine years ago, Stafford – then the girls volleyball coach at Granite Bay – told then-Castro Valley coach Jamie Cortez if she ever were to relocate to the Sacramento area, he'd love to coach with her ... "Watching her as a young coach, she had such a great disposition," Stafford

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The week ahead: Seven things that will shape the news in Our Region

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Published Oct. 11, 2009 at 2:13 p.m.

MONDAY ... Light Rail's 'Green Line' gets green light ... What: Congresswoman Doris Matsui and local leaders will host a groundbreaking for the $44 million initial segment of Regional Transit's planned light rail line from downtown to Natomas and the airport. The public is invited ... When: 10 a.m ... Where: Richards Boulevard and 7th Street ... MONDAY ... San Juan holds forum to discuss consolidation ... What: San Juan Unified School District continues to experience declining enrollment and is

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Annie Le's grace, gifts remembered at El Dorado Hills funeral

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Published Sept. 27, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Jonathan Widawsky, fiancé of Annie Le, comforts her mother, Vivian Van Le, center, after her funeral service Saturday in El Dorado Hills. In back at left is Widawsky's father, Michael, and at far right his sister, Lauren ... Annie Le's story is of a life abruptly ended, of promise unfulfilled, of a wedding that was not to be ... About 600 of the Yale University graduate student's family and friends, including her fiancé, Jonathan Widawsky, filled an El Dorado Hills church Saturday, finding

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Hornets receiver has success at his fingertips

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Published Sept. 24, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Sacramento State needs a big-play receiver. Brandyn Reed, a transfer from Santa Rosa Junior College, might be the right man for the job ... Sacramento State's football team enters its third game of the season desperately seeking a playmaker to jump-start a sputtering offense ... Brandyn Reed hopes he's that guy ... The 6-foot-4, 185-pound wide receiver comes to the Hornets with top credentials, earning first-team All-America honors last season after catching 61 passes for 1,195 yards and 16

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Yale grad student from El Dorado County disappears days before wedding

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Published Sept. 11, 2009 at 8:25 a.m.
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Annie Le graduated from Union Mine High School, where the principal called her "a tremendous student and human being." ... Authorities in New Haven, Conn., used bloodhounds Thursday in the search for a 24-year-old Yale University graduate student missing five days before her wedding ... Annie Le, who grew up in rural El Dorado County, was last seen Tuesday when a campus surveillance camera captured her entering a research facility. She had left her purse – which contained her cell phone,

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Hornets seek season-opening win at UNLV

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Published Sept. 5, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.

Marshall Sperbeck takes his Sacramento State football team into tonight's season opener at UNLV with a checklist of things he'd like to see happen: ... • Execute the offense ... • Contain the opponent ... • Don't beat yourself ... • Give yourself a chance to win ... After three weeks of beating each other up, the Hornets finally get to hit someone else in the 7:05 contest against the Rebels at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas ... And Sperbeck, Sacramento State's third-year coach, likes what

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Paul Gutierrez: Ellis tells his teammates to change their behavior

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Published Aug. 31, 2009 at 10:28 a.m.
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The pain of the day is obvious on the faces of Sam Williams (54) and David Nixon (48) on the Raiders' bench during New Orleans' rout ... OAKLAND – They played as if they were hung over. And really, after being subjected to 3 hours and 17 minutes of what could only be described as "morning after" play by the Raiders' defense in a 45-7 loss to New Orleans, I had a headache, too ... Not even popping a few Advil and washing them down with a bowl of menudo could help the defense on this day.

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