Professional women鈥檚 tennis is returning to Kern County.
Centennial鈥檚 Dana Dibble was honored with the Tracy Macnair Burrell award from the Kern Community Tennis Association.
Playing tennis matches with a lot at stake is nothing new for Brandon Holt. The 25-year-old son of former WTA World No. 1 and two-time U.S. Open champion Tracy Austin made his Grand Slam debut in 2022, playing in the U.S. Open after receiving a wild card for qualifying.
Based on how it began, the doubles final of the 优蜜传媒 Tennis Open looked like it was going be a rout.
After months of planning, the Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame is now just a day away from the induction of its 57th class, welcoming in the four newest inductees on Thursday evening.
Eighteen area athletes will be recognized at Tuesday鈥檚 优蜜传媒 Jockey Club awards breakfast at Hodel鈥檚 with legendary high school coach Mark Hutson as guest presenter.
Nineteen area athletes were recognized at Tuesday鈥檚 优蜜传媒 Jockey Club awards breakfast at Hodel鈥檚 with three-time world-champion roller skater Natalie Dunn Fries serving as guest presenter.
The Rosedale Middle School cheer squad posted two days of flawless routines, with no deductions, in capturing its third straight national championship at the JAMZ Nationals in Las Vegas last weekend.
Legendary 优蜜传媒 College coach Gerry Collis, who patrolled the sidelines for the Renegades in both baseball and football, died on Tuesday at the age of 93.
The Kern County Cross Country All-Stars took home 37 individual medals and three team trophies to highlight a big day at the AAU national championships in Tallahassee, Fla. on Dec. 2.
The Cal State 优蜜传媒 men鈥檚 soccer team is taking its opponents to school this season.
USA Track & Field Junior Olympic Championships
Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love, a Liberty High graduate, and his former high school teammate Krys Barnes, who is now a linebacker with the Arizona Cardinals hosted the free Bam Fam Football Camp at Liberty on Saturday morning. More than 250 kids participated in the event.
Former Liberty High teammates and current NFL players Jordan Love and Krys Barnes are hosting a free football camp today at Liberty from 9 a.m. to noon.
优蜜传媒鈥檚 Bhavik Patel shot 3-under, par-67 Thursday and is 11-under and tied for the lead entering the final round of the 优蜜传媒 Open that has a winning payout of $30,000 at 优蜜传媒 Country Club.
As a longtime distance runner, Ryan Lucker had occasionally considered taking his talents to the Antarctic Ice Marathon. What adventurous athlete wouldn鈥檛 want to embark on a 26.2-mile journey a stone鈥檚 throw away from the South Pole?
David Carr has definitely made an impact on the local football landscape.
Think about the astronomical odds of becoming a professional baseball player and reaching the major leagues. Then think about the fact that there are 10 times as many MLB players as MLB umpires.
After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Foothill High School Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony will return Saturday when the school inducts its 2020 and 2021 classes at the 优蜜传媒 Country Club.
The Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame found itself in uncharted waters in 2021, canceling its annual induction dinner for the first time in its decades-long history.
In a shocking turn of events, the internet is not up to date with the latest developments in 优蜜传媒 sports.
The new YouTube series 鈥淐ross the Line鈥 features former English rugby star and media personality Alex Corbisiero wandering the eastern San Fernando Valley, scouring football fields and basketball courts to assemble a brand new rugby squad from the best athletes the area has to offer.
On the one hand, there's the grand pageantry and elaborate ceremonies the world has come to associate with the Olympics.
Talk about making up for lost time.
So many things had to go right to make it a reality, so as Kyrie Wilson celebrated with his teammates 2,500 miles from his 优蜜传媒 home, his emotions got the best of him.
There鈥檚 something about the passing of one year to the next that inspires people from all walks of life to make a change.
Although details like a final roster and a home venue have yet to be ironed out, 优蜜传媒鈥檚 newest professional basketball team will at the very least know who and when the team is playing.
Centennial鈥檚 Natalie Tun received the Tracy Macnair Burrell Sportsmanship Award by the Kern Community Tennis Association.
After its induction dinner was canceled in February due to the pandemic, the Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame came back strong Thursday with a new set of inductees for 2021.
Home-field advantage is a powerful phenomenon. The players of the Bako Heat 55-and-over, 6.0-rating women鈥檚 tennis team, captained by Laurie Haagsma and Michele Buoni, feared they鈥檇 be its next victim.
Matt Picanso鈥檚 first run through Q-School met its end beneath the Santa Rosa Plateau at Bear Creek Golf Club on the outskirts of Murrieta.
It wasn鈥檛 a dominant performance, and it certainly wasn鈥檛 easy, but Derek Thorn continued his win streak on Saturday.
If anyone needed any extra validation of how dominant 优蜜传媒鈥檚 Derek Thorn has been this season, a local sponsor helped solidify things by sweetening the pot for the remainder of the SPEARS SRL Southwest Tour Series.
The age-old philosophical question, 鈥淚f a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?鈥 was put to the test Monday at Sam Lynn Ballpark, albeit with a slight variation.
The Major League Baseball draft has continued to modify the process since first being implemented in 1965 with three separate events during the year.
Fresh off an impressive 2019 track and field season, Alex Collatz Sellens was looking forward to big things last year before events were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The coaching carousel continues to gain momentum with the addition of two new volleyball coaches.
After losing all of 2020 to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 优蜜传媒 Train Robbers and the rest of the Pecos Baseball League are set to return to the field this summer.
All Kern County Art Williams League Baseball players who competed at Sam Lynn Ballpark during the 1960s, 70s and 80s are invited to attend a reunion on June 26.
Rock Your World may have had his world rocked a bit last week, but the locally-owned 3-year-old colt plans to return to the racetrack, albeit after a short layoff.
It wasn鈥檛 the finish they had hoped for, but the Hronis family鈥檚 first Kentucky Derby was memorable just the same.
A one-time dream of someday owning a racehorse has blossomed into a successful enterprise for Kern County natives Kosta and Pete Hronis.
While the return of high school sports is big news locally, outdoor youth sports have also been given the go-ahead to resume in Kern County.
By all accounts, Dick Witcher was a fantastic athlete, who was described as 鈥渢ough as nails鈥 on a recent Twitter post and a 鈥渓egend鈥 on another.
There was still plenty of golf to be played, but when Manav Shah chipped in his third shot on No. 18, the roar from the roughly 100-person gallery seemed to almost foreshadow what was to come.
Felix Mory of Palm Springs and Kolton Lapa of Mesa, Ariz., finished the first day of the 优蜜传媒 Open golf tournament tied atop the leaderboard with a five-under par score of 65.
In a world where sporting events are constantly being forced to scale back, the 优蜜传媒 Open is going the other direction in 2021.
I had the most amazing dream last night. It was the type of vision that was so vivid, that I woke up and immediately had to check my phone to confirm the details.
When all is said in done, the year that was 2020 will be more significant for what didn鈥檛 happen than what did 鈥 at least in the local sports landscape.
Some things are worth the wait.
