College Sports

Jerry Manuel of Cordova High School early- 1970s baseball fame and Lance Briggs of late-1990s Elk Grove football lore continue to give back to their communities.

ATLANTA – As horrifying as the sight of Kevin Ware's gruesome compound leg fracture was, it produced a jolt of adrenaline that not only helped Louisville get past Duke in the Midwest Regional final but also allowed the Cardinals (33-5) to ride a wave of national sentiment to the Georgia Dome for their national semifinal matchup with Wichita State (30-8) tonight.

Freshman Nathan Lukes equaled a season best with three hits as the Sacramento State baseball team defeated visiting Texas State 3-2 on Friday at John Smith Field.

Stu Bryant, a popular coach in the baseball community who inspired players on teams from Little League to Sacramento City College, died March 22. He was 61.

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BERKELEY – Predictability has given way to an anything-can-happen world in the NCAA women's Final Four.

Wayne Boulding, a retired school superintendent who was a leader on the Sacramento City College basketball team that won the 1946 national championship, died March 26 at 86.

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USF used four unearned runs to beat host Sacramento State 8-4 Wednesday in a nonleague baseball game, Sac State reported.

It's midway through Sacramento State's baseball season and Reggie Christiansen admits he doesn't dare fully exhale.

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Layshia Clarendon was the first to get her hands on the regional championship trophy. Rightfully so, after getting Cal somewhere it has never gone before: the Final Four.

USC hired Andy Enfield as its men's basketball coach after he took Florida Gulf Coast to the round of 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

Cal is on the cusp of a program-defining moment: a spot on the biggest stage in women's college basketball.

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Somehow the shock of seeing Stanford's run of five straight trips to the Final Four end prematurely didn't carry the same sting.

Jolene Henderson struck out a season-high 15 in throwing a two-hitter, and No. 4 Cal beat host Sacramento State 1-0 Saturday in a nonconference softball game in front of a Shea Stadium announced record crowd of 1,212.

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As the collegiate sporting world focuses on March Madness, a bill making its way through California's Legislature is calling for better compensation to players. It's also creating concerns that the proposed legislation could affect the NCAA eligibility of state universities.

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Seth Curry shot Duke right into the regional final – and put Mike Krzyzewski on the verge of another milestone.

Cal's softball team, ranked No. 4 nationally by ESPN.com, will play at 1 p.m. today against Sacramento State (16-11) at Shea Stadium.

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Trey Burke never doubted he could lead Michigan to its deepest NCAA Tournament run since the Fab Five era – not after a scoreless first half, not when the Wolverines trailed top-seeded Kansas by 14 with less than 7 minutes left, or by five with 21 seconds left.

An hour after his team finished a dominating defensive performance to close in on the Final Four, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim stood in a hallway and talked on and on about his trademark 2-3 zone.

After sweating through a pair of edge-of-your-seat comebacks, Marquette's first Sweet 16 victory in a decade was as straight and smooth as the 15-foot step-back jumper that Vander Blue nailed at the end of the first half.

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Tyler Raber fired a 1-under-par 69, and B.K. Sobhani and Jonny Baxter each had 70s as UC Davis placed seventh after the first round of the U.S. Intercollegiate men's golf tournament on Thursday at Stanford, UCD reported.

No list of great NCAA championship game moments is complete unless Keith Smart's jumper for Indiana in 1987 is on it.

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The home-field lights will come on tonight for the first time in the 121-year history of Cal baseball.

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Brittney Griner certainly knows how to provide a farewell to remember.

Nick Lynch lined a two-out RBI single to right field to cap a two-run ninth inning in UC Davis' 2-1 baseball victory over visiting Stanford on Tuesday, according to the UCD website.

On the eve of Joslyn Tinkle's final home game, coach Tara VanDerveer sent the Stanford senior a text message and reminded her it would be a special night.

Sixteen sweet reasons to love Florida Gulf Coast and its basketball team:

College sports results from around the region and nation, including results and schedules for the men's/women's NCAA, NIT and CBI tournaments.

Former Sheldon High School football player Mansel Simmons, a redshirt freshman wide receiver at Washington State last season, was hospitalized with head injuries after being involved in an altercation early Sunday in Pullman, Wash.

Tubby Smith was hailed as a rescuer when he came to Minnesota from Kentucky in 2007, a championship-certified coach who would restore a once-proud program to respectability after it was brought down by an academic fraud scandal.

The Cal women knew a battle-tested South Florida squad was going to be tough.

Jolene Henderson (Sheldon High School) became the winningest pitcher in Cal softball history when the Bears beat Utah 4-1 on Sunday in a Pacific-12 Conference game in Berkeley.

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UCLA fired Ben Howland on Sunday night after 10 seasons as coach, which included three Final Four appearances but culminated with another early-round exit from the NCAA Tournament.

Florida Gulf Coast went from shocking the college basketball world to downright impressing it. And the Eagles were smiling the whole time.

The whispers about an ignoble piece of Stanford basketball history started early Sunday as the top-seeded Cardinal women struggled against 16th-seeded Tulsa in an NCAA Tournament opener at Maples Pavilion.

Let upsets take down the other heavy favorites. Duke is back to business as usual.

Aaron Craft dribbled in place at the top of the arc, watching to see if any of his Ohio State teammates were getting open near the basket for a game-winning shot.

Gonzaga's gone. Cleanthony Early and Ron Baker scored 16 points apiece and Wichita State hit seven straight 3-pointers late to knock the top-ranked and No. 1 seeded Bulldogs out of the NCAA tournament 76-70 on Saturday.

College and Community College sports results from around the region and nation.

Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb wondered when Fresno State would start missing from three-point range.