Sports

Jake East, Alex Jones, Travis Throckmorton and Cooper Wallace all grew up within five minutes of each other. Jones, Throckmorton and Wallace went to preschool together at St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church in Westlake. East met the crew about a year later. Around age 5, they played on their first team together. They won every single game with the YMCA […]

The Chargers spent seven months training for a season they didn’t know would materialize. It all worked out in the end: Agoura High’s girls’ water polo team played eight games in three weeks. “Even if I got an hour to swim or an hour to pass, if we had one game or eight games in three weeks, I’d take that […]

A local legend is now a national rock star. Tara Davis, an Agoura High graduate, shattered an NCAA record held by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, one of the world’s great athletes. Davis, a junior on the University of Texas women’s track and field team, broke Joyner-Kersee’s 36-year-old national record in the long jump by catapulting 7.14 meters/ 23 feet-5.25 inches on March […]

In a world beleaguered by the COVID-19 virus, social unrest, 550,000 dead Americans, mass shootings and the general malaise of modern life, Paul Hiepler is a light. Hiepler reminds us there’s still joy in this world. Sports can still be fun. Sports should be fun. Sports is fun. A 4.0 GPA student who averages 0.7 points per game for the […]

Kevin Klein’s passion project began in a closet. He had to start somewhere. Klein, a 2010 Rio Mesa High grad who spent time growing up in Camarillo, started “The Incline: Dodgers” podcast before the 2019 Major League Baseball season in a closet at his girlfriend and now fiancee Leah Perry’s Los Angeles apartment. “I just love baseball, especially the Dodgers,” […]

A new star etched his name in Kanan Bowl folklore. Colin Campbell, a starting senior quarterback for Agoura High’s football team was benched after throwing a first-quarter interception. He returned to action late in the second half, leading the Chargers on a 57-yard drive, which culminated with his 2-yard touchdown run with less than 30 seconds remaining in the fourth […]

Let the strange times roll . . . There will be no Pigskin Preview during this condensed spring football season. The infamous Acorn Power Poll remains in a frosty hibernation along with Kurt Russell teaching The Thing to fetch a stick. And how can we pick just one Acorn High School Football Game of the Week during rivalry week? We […]

Owen Kobett was falling behind. With one mile left in the 2019 CIF-Southern Section Division 2 boys’ cross country finals race in Riverside, Kobett was not in position to qualify for the state meet. Time was running out for the Westlake High star. Chad Scott, the Warriors’ co-head coach with Troy Burns, yelled instructions from the sidelines to Kobett. In […]