As a publisher, Soquel’s Steve Kettmann gathered together 62 notable figures to pay tribute to his close friend, and a man who seemed to touch everyone he met, longtime ESPN reporter and baseball writer Pedro Gomez.
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Historic surfboards to be inducted into Santa Cruz Surfing Museum
Three surfboards from three different eras in local surfing’s rich history — including one that once belonged to Fred Hunt, one of the founders of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club in 1936 — have their moment in a ceremony to be held Saturday.
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Could the Olympics be canceled due to Japanese state of emergency?
Japanese fans won’t be able to attend the Tokyo Olympics, but the Games are expected to be staged as scheduled.
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Supreme Court, NCAA decisions embolden advocates for college athlete compensation in California
California’s landmark law allowing college athletes to sign paid endorsement deals started a national movement. With the NCAA no longer banning athlete compensation, advocates are pushing to speed up the law’s implementation and expand it to cover community college players.
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Tokyo, here she comes! UCSC student becomes first athlete from school to head to Olympics
UC Santa Cruz student Isabelle Connor will be representing Team USA at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, set to begin July 23, as part of the group rhythmic gymnastics team — a first in the school’s history.
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Greg Noll, SoCal surfer and legendary big-wave rider, dies
Long before tow-in surfing, Greg Noll conquered Hawaii’s monster waves. The legendary big-wave rider has died at 84.
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Open trails at Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument by next summer? What to know on BLM’s latest move
The Bureau of Land Management finalized its use plan Wednesday for the 5,800-acre area north of Santa Cruz, and the head of the local nonprofit that’s partnering with the agency to build trails on the property hopes it could be open for hiking, biking and more by next summer.
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Far from the Olympic limelight, the waves of Fukushima are ‘healing’ for local surfers
Fukushima was hoping the Olympics would make people forget the 2011 nuclear disaster. But the best surfers in the world will not be riding the waves along the region’s coast.
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Smoother ride for bikes on Portola Drive? What to know about county’s temporary makeover
A Santa Cruz County project that runs through July 21 cuts space for cars between 36th and 41st avenues in Pleasure Point and adds protection for cyclists and pedestrians. And the county is offering pizza and other freebies to tempt you to take a survey about it.
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Olympic wave of the future? Kelly Slater on whether his Surf Ranch or other wave pools could play host
Could the wave pool Kelly Slater constructed amid agricultural fields in Central California be used for surfing at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics?