Jan. 31 is the final deadline for receiving applications for the 2003 Nevada spring wild turkey hunts to be held on public lands.
That hunting information must be submitted if the hunter was successful or unsuccessful.
Thru Feb. 2 are the dates for the San Mateo show to be held next to Bay Meadows Race Track.
That function will be held at the Reno Hilton Hotel/Casino.
As usual, it will be held at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.
That hunting event will be held at the Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area, located near Yerington.
An 8 pound cutthroat trout at Pyramid Lake on Sunday
The six anglers were Norm Budden, Mark Day, Don Hettrick, Bob "Slick" McCulloch, Jim Quilici and yours truly, all of Carson City.
For information, call the Nevada Division of Wildlife at 688-1500 during business hours.
The Dayton boys basketball team remained among the leaders in the Northern 3A league with a 56-35 win over Fernley on Wednesday.
Galena High graduates Annie Baxter and Amy Jackson were named to the all-Western Athletic Conference academic team for the University of Nevada women's soccer team.
Super Bowl XXXVII and its match up between the NFL's top-ranked defense against the top-ranked offense resulted in more than $71.6 million wagered at Nevada sports books, the third highest total in Super Bowl history.
What began at the age of three when she learned to chase around her older brother, has now led to winning medals on the national level for Carson City's Corrinne Rotter.
With his team leading 30-21 and with two matches to go, Douglas wrestling coach Mike Gamberg made a tactical move.
RENO -- After Galena's overtime loss to Fallon on Jan. 7, coach Tom Maurer made his team look up the word 'character' in the dictionary and read the definition.
It's showdown time for the Carson and Douglas high school wrestling teams -- again.
Realignment is always a controversial, and emotional, topic when it comes to high school athletics.
Brett Andersen and Danny Rotter finished one-two for the Carson High boys ski team, which stayed unbeated with an 88-55 win over Reed on Tuesday.
Although there's no local racing going on right now, a number of Carson City racers have been making the trek over the hill to Red Bluff, Calif., for the Outlaw Kart winter series there.
Nothing comes between Joe Shaw and his devotion to the Oakland Raiders. Not even the hair on his head.
RENO -- Nevada guard Jerry Petty sat out the most of the first half with zero points and two fouls. He wasn't happy
Mallory Bozeman won the title at 125 to lead the Dayton wrestling team to a sixth place finish out of 16 teams at the Fernley Invitational.
The Carson High wrestling team warmed up for its showdown with Douglas by winning 69-9 at North Valleys on Saturday.
DAYTON -- Nick McQueen and Matt Bowman delivered key plays down the stretch as Dayton High School held on for a 59-56 Northern 3A boys basketball victory against Yerington on Saturday afternoon.
RENO -- For three years, Nevada has never been this high in the Western Athletic Conference standings and it only has Jerry Petty to blame.
GALENA GIRLS 67, SPARKS 24
RENO -- After more than an hour of fuming, Galena boys head coach Tom Maurer was finally able to explain why he was so angry about a 64-40 High Desert League win over Sparks on Friday night at Galena High.
Several local players have been recognized in the Old Spice Red Zone High School Football Player of the Year program.
The annual Junior Capital Classic eighth grade boys basketball tournament is being held this weekend at Carson Middle School.
RENO -- Don't count out the Douglas High's boys' basketball team just yet.
With apologies in advance to the players who scored, rebounded, assisted and actually made it possible, Jason Eversteyn and London Wilson are why Nevada basketball is no longer a token member of the Western Athletic Conference.
RENO -- In their most lopsided Western Athletic Conference victory of the season, it came as no surprise to the Wolf Pack that they passed the ball best they have all season.
The Yerington boys basketball team outscored Fernley 16-2 in overtime on its way to a 54-40 win on Thursday.
The Carson Bulldog youth wrestling team won 13 more titles at the Predator Tournament held this past weekend at North Valleys High.
When he leads the University of Nevada Wolf Pack boxing team into tonight's Nevada Boxing Invitational at the Eldorado Hotel-Casino in Reno, fans are going to see a little bit more of Lawrence Tam.
The meeting between Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden and his former team, the Oakland Raiders, in Super Bowl XXXVII on Sunday hasn't generated any increased action at local sportsbooks, according to the lead supervisor at the Carson Station.
For those of us of the senior persuasion, one of the best deals in the Sierra Nevada is at Mt. Rose where Monday-Wednesday-Friday super instructor Rusty Crook leads his band of intermediates and up through a merry chase.
RENO -- The consensus amongst the Wolf Pack following their 86-59 win over San Jose State was they haven't played a better game this season. The numbers tell the same story.
Danny Rotter took top honors for the Carson High boys ski team, which settled for a 78-78 tie against Manogue on Wednesday.
As Chris Chappell sat with a video camera in hand and watched an elite field of pole vaulters compete during the National Pole Vault Summit Friday night at the Reno Hilton, he couldn't help but dream that there will be a time when he vaults on that same stage.
Call me crazy, but the idea of riding a motorcyle off a ramp high in the air and doing some outrageous trick before landing on the snow -- well, it makes me cringe just to think about it.
After a deceiving 58-18 win in their last Northern Nevada dual meet, the Carson High wrestling team sent a strong message to the region with a 58-10 win over South Tahoe on Wednesday at Morse Burley Gymnasium.
Champion Motor Speedway has announced the new "Sierra Mountain Super Series," presented by 76 Racing Fuel and the Plaza Hotel will make its debut this year.
The Galena High boys basketball team received all it could handle, but came away with a 91-70 win at Spanish Springs on Tuesday.
After losing two of their last three games, the Carson girls basketball team welcomed the beginning of a more gentle schedule on Tuesday against Hug.
Carson boys coach Bruce Barnes won't admit it but the Senators caught Hug at the perfect time on Tuesday. Barnes' reasoning works fine, though.
Travis Lamborn and Robbie Bozin, both Eagle Valley Middle School eighth graders, had strong performances over the weekend at the Louis Pasteur Middle School Wrestling Tournament in Orangevale, Calif.
ASPEN, Colo. -- Fernley native and professional Moto X athlete Drake McElroy will compete in Moto X Big Air at Winter X Games VII at Aspen's Buttermilk Mountain Jan. 30-Feb. 2.
Douglas High School graduate Chris Griffith will represent UCLA in the second annual Paradise Bowl all-star football game Saturday in St. George, Utah.
RENO -- Bruce Barnes and the Carson Senators did everything they wanted against Reno and its 6-foot-11 Kansas-bound center and still lost.
The Carson High wrestling team won its fourth straight title at the Albany Invitational in Albany, Calif.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- Douglas High outscored South Lake Tahoe10-0 in overtime to upset the Vikings 63-53 Saturday night in a Sierra Leaguegame.
The Galena High boys basketball team turned the High Desert League into a wide open race with a 60-57 win at league favorite Reed on Saturday.
YERINGTON BOYS 67, SPRING CREEK 53
RENO -- It could be a lack of a killer instinct. A loss of intensity. Or simply fatigue.
Lauren Costella and Justin Barber have turned in some impressive swims so far for the Carson Tigersharks at the Southern California Senior Qualifying meet..
Champion Motor Speedway's new general manager, Jeb Onweiler, is beginning to make some things happen for the upcoming season.
DAYTON -- Dayton had the size, home court advantage and a share of the Northern 3A boys basketball lead. But Lowry countered with quickness, stamina and some newfound fortune down the stretch to pick off a 57-52 victory against the Dust Devils Saturday afternoon.
RENO -- Craig Campbell swears revenge wasn't on his mind when his Reno team played Carson on Saturday afternoon.
The Carson boys basketball team must have forgotten its game with Wooster on Friday started at 7 and not an hour later.
This is a story about the best player you've never heard of, the player who was LeBron James before LeBron James. This is a story about Ronnie Fields.
Hopefully the Carson Senators didn't have any thoughts of Reno overlooking them when the two teams meet today at 5 p.m. at Reno High.
The Dayton boys basketball team set up its showdown today with Lowry by rolling past Spring Creek 48-34 on Friday.
The Carson girls had a decent game plan for shutting down Wooster's Brianne McGowan. Don't let her touch the ball.
It might be wise not to head for the hills this weekend as it is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Some top names from the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, including gold medalists Stacy Dragila and Nick Hysong, will be showcased tonight when the National Pole Vault Summit opens in Reno.
RENO -- In the most offensive display of offense this season at Lawlor Events Center, Boise State was just a tad worse.
RENO -- Nevada's Dean Browne didn't rate his performance in Saturday night's win over Boise State as the highest of the season. But it was pretty close.
I was a little confused looking over the results of last week's NASCAR Winston Cup test session at Daytona.
Nick Shine came away with the title at 189 pounds to lead an outstanding effort by the Carson High wrestling team at the Nor Cal Invitational on Saturday in Anderson, Calif.
DAYTON -- Call it a breakthrough game for the Dayton High School boys basketball team. Coach Rob Streeter did after the Dust Devils staged a fourth quarter rally to defeat Rite of Passage 50-42 in a showdown between Northern 4A front-runners on Friday night.
The Galena High boys basketball team rebounded from a tough overtime loss at Fallon with an impressive 52-36 win over McQueen on Friday at home.
Douglas High's girls' basketball team found out it can win games even when center Emily Haas isn't on the floor much.
This just in: John Riegger will win a major and Phil Mickelson won't. Riegger seems a likely and qualified candidate to win the PGA Championship, the one major of the year that seems to always be won by anybody who can swing a club.
MINDEN -- Maybe Bruce Barnes and winning basketball games in Minden can be said in the same sentence after all.
Looks like a fine weekend for snowsporting, lots going on.
There have been many memorable moments for Carson High School athletics over the past 30 years.
Sixteen wrestlers for the Carson Bulldogs youth wrestling team won titles at the South Reno Tournament at Wooster High over the weekend.
Many old memories were rekindled Saturday when Mike Leck walked into the Douglas High School gym for the 28th Carson Valley Lions Club Invitational.
RENO -- The Carson High girls basketball team has already played two Sierra League games and the toughest aspect in both of them was getting motivated to play.
RENO -- Sandwiched between a big win over South Tahoe last week and a game against its rival Douglas on Friday, Carson's game with North Valleys on Tuesday could've been a trap. That's where Bruce Barnes comes in.
The Galena boys basketball team just ran out of gas on its road trip to California in its loss to a talented St. Joseph's team of Alameda.
RENO -- Two days after holding a big lead over Tulsa in the Western Athletic Conference opener and losing, the Nevada women's basketball team did the same on Saturday against Rice.
The line from Shakespeare, "This is the winter of our discontent," could well be applied to race fans everywhere.
MINDEN -- Churchill County outlasted Centennial in a Nevada North-South showdown to capture the 28th annual Carson Valley Lions Club Invitational wrestling tournament championship Saturday at Douglas High School.
Even though the Dayton High basketball team struggled from the floor over the weekend, the Dust Devils are 2-0 in the Northern 3A division.
MINDEN -- Earlier this week, Werner Christen said he regarded Reno High School as the team to beat coming into the start of the Northern 4A girls basketball season. It's just that the Douglas coach obviously hoped to see that prediction unfold on another night.
With all the controversy following last week's column, I'm going to chill this week. I spoke with people at Champion Speedway last Saturday and I wanted to apologize for any negative light was shed on them.
MINDEN -- It was no secret what the Douglas High School boys basketball team was going to do defensively against Reno on Friday night -- focus on 6-foot-11 senior center David Padgett and try to force somebody else to pick up the slack on offense for the Huskies.
The Galena High boys basketball team picked up its second straight impressive win on the road, beating Bay Area power St. Francis 53-43 on Friday.
Dylan Johnson hit a shot at the buzzer at the end of regulation to give the Yerington High boys basketball team a 63-61 win over Truckee in the Lions' Northern 3A opener.
Douglas High graduate Andrea Honer was a part of NCAA women's basketball history Monday when she played for Texas Christian University in its 76-16 victory against Texas Southern in Fort Worth, Texas.
It wasn't pretty, but the Dayton High boys basketball team will take an ugly 41-32 win at North Tahoe on Friday in its Northern 3A opener.
It was South Tahoe girls basketball team's worst loss of the season and coach Chris Proctor couldn't have been happier.
Assuming Reno will walk away with the Sierra League title, Carson coach Bruce Barnes didn't hesitate in claiming South Tahoe as the second best team. That was Thursday.
The toughest competition now for the Carson High skiing program comes before the season even begins.
Mulling over an unexpected 2-5 record on Dec. 14, the Nevada Wolf Pack said all the right things following each of those five losses but it wasn't carrying over to the court.
