By all accounts, Dick Witcher was a fantastic athlete, who was described as “tough as nails” on a recent Twitter post and a “legend” 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.

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’t happen than what did — at least in the local sports landscape.

Some things are worth the wait.

Inspired by the first responders who raced into the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, Kercie Jung wanted to do something to show her support for the brave men and women who put their lives on the line every day.

When and how high school sports can safely return has still yet to be decided, but in the interim, several area football players still continue to generate interest.

Bobby Sharp has never really considered himself a handyman around the house.

Chris Sterling scored a game-high 40 points, but it wasn’t enough as NBA veteran Tyrone Wallace led the Bakersfield Elect squad past the Bakersfield Finest 121-120 in the Who You Got? All-Star basketball game Saturday night at West High.

Cliff Bolt has worked with more than his fair share of aspiring skeet shooters in his more than 50 years as a competitor and instructor in the sport.

Edilson Alvarez knows a little something about wearing many hats.

To say Nate Jessup was a long shot to win last weekend’s 40th annual Bakersfield City Championship is an understatement.

Getting to know Bill Moore is not a long process. Translation? What you see is what you get.

Dogs and cats. Oil and water. Giants and Dodgers fans.

Kyle Shiloh seems to always be on the move.

About 25 years ago, when I went to film a hunt in Canada for the first time, my guide Brent mentioned to me that he had heard that there was "no limit" Canada goose hunting in New Zealand. For all the years since that time, I had thought about trying to arrange a hunt in the so-called "Down …

Reece Yaksitch is only 10 years old, but she gets the joke: Bakersfield isn’t exactly the most likely place to find a talented figure skater.

Lucas Dobrzanski from the Kern Athletic Fencing Foundation, finished third at the U.S. Fencing National Championships held in Salt Lake City. His strong finish placed him 5th in the nation, earning him the first alternate spot on the U.S. team going to the World Championships in Slovenia. Lu…

The NW Bakersfield 11-70s All-Star team won the Central California Cal Ripken State tournament Friday. The team went 5-1 including beating Kingsburg to claim the title. The team now moves onto the Pacific Southwest Regional tournament held in Long Beach.

Over the past years when I was giving shooting lessons to a number of people, I was often asked one question.

Carolina Geyer of the Kern Athletic Fencing Foundation won a gold medal at a Y14 mixed foil fencing tournament in Placentia on Sunday.

The Bakersfield Starz 10U baseball team traveled to Reno last week to compete against teams from across the nation in the Youth Baseball Nationals. The boys went 7-1 for the tournament scoring 86 runs while allowing 16. This is their second championship having also won the Nationals in Myrtl…

A couple of years after Steve Merlo and I returned from chasing the giant Canada geese in Saskatchewan, he called me and said he had found another place that supposedly had a few giants. It was a small lake just a mile from downtown Rochester, Minn.

Bakersfield BLAST 14u took second place last weekend in Arroyo Grande. This was the team’s second tournament together.

South Valley Thunder G05 took first place in the HB Sand Soccer tournament last weekend in Huntington Beach.

Cal State Bakersfield baseball will be holding a future prospects camp for 9th through 12th graders. 6 p.m. Saturday — for Two way players and position players only — and 8 a.m. to noon Sunday, for all players, at Hardt Field.

I first started shooting skeet in 1962 when I was invited out to the Kern County Gun Club by my friend Pete Lokey, who owned Westchester Bowl.

South Valley Thunder Soccer club girls u10 won the local crown soccer tournament recently.

Northwest Bakersfield Baseball AAA Pirate Champions. Finished regular season in second place with a 11-3 record but won overall division championship in playoffs with a 12-7 victory over the undefeated Dodgers.

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I remember bagging my first duck back in 1952 on my uncle’s duck pond he was leasing from the Gilbreath Brothers commercial club in the area northwest of Wasco.

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Before getting into today’s column, I would just like to thank Zach Ewing and the sports staff at The Californian for the coverage they allowed me three weeks ago for the story about my breaking the first 400x400 in skeet shooting history. I was really amazed that morning when I opened my pa…