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Fallen Hero Stands Tall
Sports Jul 11, 2012, by Eric Johnson
Looking across the diamond from field level, it seemed as if Aubrey Huff appeared out of nowhere. Walking toward the dugout from the outfield, the 35-year-old veteran and 2010 World Series champion passed a dozen young players who, when he joined the San Jose Giants on a rehab assignment a few hours earlier, had become his teammates. They continued to stretch and goof around, the way all ballplayers do before a game, and he just walked by. Not just a man among boys, it looked like he was in another dimension, a different world.
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Top 5 Places for Bike Rides
Sports Jul 06, 2012, by Lily Stoicheff
Biking is a way of life in Santa Cruz. No small wonder, considering we’ve got trails for every skill and endurance level, whether your bike was made by Schwinn or Specialized.
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CIty Council OKs Warriors Deal
PoliticsSports May 23, 2012, by Jacob PierceSanta Cruz, home to a variety of extreme sports, seems to be on the verge of getting a basketball team too. The Santa Cruz City Council voted unanimously yesterday to approve a deal and the outlay of $3.5 million that could send the minor league Dakota Wizards, a feeder team for the Golden State Warriors, straight into the arms of Surf City.
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Summer Soaking in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Sports May 22, 2012, by Jacob Pierce
There’s nothing quite like swimming in the redwoods. It’s more liberating than swimming in a normal pool and less unsettling than treading water in the open ocean. There are no Great Whites in the San Lorenzo River, and the biggest risks are getting poison oak on your way there or maybe stubbing your toe. And even at its chilliest, the water is never as cold as the ocean is around these parts.
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A Day at De Laveaga Disc Golf Course
CommunitySports May 22, 2012, by Jacob Pierce
It’s Sunday afternoon, and Asa Maestas, a Soquel High School junior, is standing on a concrete tee at De Laveaga Disc Golf Course’s fourth hole teaching a novice—me—how to play. Maestas instructs me to throw “nip to nip,” demonstrating as he pulls his disc horizontally across his chest and extends it out toward our target, a metal basket that appears to be several light years away.
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Scaling Sandstone in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Sports May 22, 2012, by Traci Hukill 1 Comments
We gather in the parking lot at Castle Rock State Park, six people ranging in age from mid-twenties to mid-forties, here to learn the art and science of rock climbing courtesy Santa Cruz–based Treks and Tracks. Before we set off on the 20-minute hike to the site, our guide Daniel Laggner, who has a shock of curly sun-streaked hair and forearms like Popeye’s, warns us about what may be the greatest actual threat we face all day: poison oak. “Leaves of three, let it be,” he instructs us. Got it.
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Stand Up Paddle Paradise
Sports May 22, 2012, by Lily Stoicheff 1 Comments
Although I’ve lived in Santa Cruz for the last five years, unless it’s a fogless, 80-plus–degree day, it’s unlikely you’ll find me in the water. I’ll dive in on particularly hot summer days if the waves are looking friendly, but I’m not a strong swimmer. I’m the kind who watches the surfers out on Steamer Lane and marvels longingly at their athleticism, but surfing has always looked too physically (and mentally) challenging for me. So I content myself with being a sun-soaking landlubber.
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First-time Surfer Would Rather Float
Sports May 22, 2012, by Garrett McAuliffe
My two most vivid memories of the ocean: being bashed in the surf at 7, an intimate introduction as sand scraped half the flesh from my left shoulder. Six years later an undertow dragged me out. Kicking and screaming for my life, I eventually dragged myself back in.
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2012 Gold Awards — Health & Recreation
BusinessSports Apr 05, 2012, by Santa Cruz Weekly readers 1 Comments
Santa Cruz Weekly readers weigh in on the best of all things health- and fitness-related in Santa Cruz County.
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A few insights from our opinionated scribes on matters of health, fitness and recreation.
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