Daily Editor Picks

If the financing plan for a new arena is going to fully materialize in Sacramento by March 1st, the NBA’s current deadline for city leaders to have the specific plans set in place, it will undoubtedly have to include revenue … Continue reading ...

The Fighting Sioux logo on center ice at the Ralph Engelstad Arena has become an icon for the issues at North Dakota. Photo courtesy of Flicker.com. COMMENTARY By Bill Bradley, SacStateSports.com Editor On Sunday at Hornet Gym, the North Dakota men’s basketball team will play Sacramento State in a non-conference game. If all goes...

Things we learned after a trivial, meaningless preseason game:-- Somebody needs to tell J.J. Hickson that the lockout is over.--Jason Thompson still plays like a rookie.--Stephen Curry is better than Tyreke Evans.--Jimmer Fredette flashed a little of h...

Winter is my least favorite season. Plants that looked great through spring, summer and fall begin to turn brown or go dormant. I know all about the circle of life (thank you, Elton John), but I still don’t like it. It was against this frame of mind...

On my recent visit to Annapolis as part of my College Football Travel Tour, I had the chance to check out the new design of the lobby for the Courtyard by Marriott hotels.  A new Bistro, the GoBoard touch screen TV, redesigned lobby, media pods, business center, and free WiFi turn the once sterile...

Anybody who’s been around this community for a while knows that I have been disturbed by our local legal system’s handling of some child abuse cases — and made my views well-known. The background from a 2006 case I aggressively wrote about while Editor of The Union is here. I took a lot of...

By Carlos Alcala Trouble, the Guinness-certified World's Tallest Cat, will make an appearance at the annual Jazzy Cats Show, Mardi Gras Madness, at the Double Tree Hotel in Sacramento in January. Trouble was measured at 19 inches at the top of his sh...

"Little Charlie" Baty and Tracy Walton and Chris Webster of Mumbo Gumbo will perform Wednesday in Davis on behalf of music and arts in Davis schools. The eighth "Home for the Holidays" show, at 7 p.m. at Veterans' Memorial Center (203 E. 14th ...

All my life I've driven up and down I-5. First it was family vacations when we would return from Saudi Arabia. We would often enter in Los Angeles and then do family activities as we drove back to Oregon to visit my aunt and cousin. Later I did the dri...

In no particular order, as always, these are my favorite Christmas movies. I try to watch them every year.  And yes, I'm well aware that your favorite movies are probably not on here.  If it has Jimmy Stewart in it, I sort of hate that movie...