Root for Alphonso Bigelow. One more time: Root for Alphonso Bigelow.

They used to call Rose Williamson "Bush Woman" because she would hit a softball so far. A lot of the ball fields didn't have fences in those days, so the outfielders would have to chase it out into the bushes.

Sometimes, you can't help but wonder where the anger comes from, what might push a person to get inside a cage and try to beat another person into pancake batter.

The basketball at Broadway and El Dorado streets in downtown Fresno gets a bit rough sometimes.

We are constantly having the Kobe conversation down at Club One. Not that I'm constantly down at Club One. And not that there's anything wrong with that. You know what I mean.

Well you show up to one of these Fresno State "major announcement" news conferences thinking they're going to declare grass is green or the home football opener a "big game," and instead you get a whopper.

If it really was an envelope only a thousand dollars thick that put O.J. Mayo in cardinal and gold, what a steal.

My favorite John Volkman story is not the time he lost five toenails during a race and went into shock.

No Santa Cruz High athlete had made a final at the state meet since the Vietnam War, according to one self-proclaimed historian, and the kid who finally did it is so unconcerned with those sorts of things, no one bothered to tell him.

At some point, you've got to believe a little of what the old coach has to say about Rafer Alston.

If I lived near the Great Wall of China, I would go there pretty much every day.

IRVINE -- The answer, to me, will always be Holden Sprague.

IRVINE -- So much damage caused by such a little popup.

The most dominant athlete in Fresno weighs 125 pounds, and isn't a wrestler.

This is how it starts, you know. A slump, some sloppiness, a few sighs and then a starter suspended.

Pat Hill watches "Dancing With the Stars." Bet you didn't see that coming.

Of all the things you'd expect to get a second chance at, playing football for Lou Holtz is not one of them. Especially 13 years later.

They used to call him "The Hammer," way back in elementary school, because he ran the football so hard.

Clovis teacher Ben Holscher will step into a cage tonight at the Save Mart Center in a mixed martial arts event that will be viewed on Showtime by millions.

You won't want to hear this, but the men's basketball team is fixed.

Margery Meyer really studies swimming. She watches other athletes, asks them questions. She'll see something different and tweak her technique. At a meet, she walks up and down the lanes, patting her teammates, rubbing their shoulders, pumping them u

A former Fresno State softball player once told me there are three kinds of player-coach relationships with coach Margie Wright.

It's been almost six years since Colby Solomon and his brother Rob moved to Fresno from Idaho so they could race sprint cars.