2 men arrested after carjacking of BHS Mountain Bike Team members
They have been charged with a carjacking in Daly City and are tied to carjackings in San Francisco, Oakland and Livermore, authorities say.
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After carjacking of BHS Mountain Bike Team members, community raises $22K
Carjacking is rare in Berkeley and the targeting of BHS students, coaches and their bikes made the incident particularly shocking.
His madcap recaps of Berkeley softball games have been a hit for 25 years
Raymond Weschler has organized an egalitarian pick-up softball league since 1997, but he prefers writing emails about the games to playing in them.
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Supervised swims in the bay are popular and safe — just don’t stare at Homer the seal
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Women’s pro tennis comes to Berkeley – in many ways where it all started
Fifty-one years ago, nine women’s tennis players and one zealous magazine publisher kicked off a revolution that changed the face of sports. Five of the 10 rebels had strong connections to the Berkeley Tennis Club.
Building a bike for the Warriors’ Juan Toscano-Anderson
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Teens built secret mountain bike course. Now they’re rallying to save ‘The Jumps.’
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Glenn Burke, an ‘extravagantly gifted’ baseball player, paid a price for being gay
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