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Western Nevada College's baseball team has been named one of the top academic teams in the country, earning All-Academic Team honors by the National Junior College Athletic Association.The Wildcats...

A conceptual site and building design concept for the multi-purpose athletic complex is up for possible board action Thursday when the Carson City Board of Supervisors meets.Staff will ask for appr...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . . Head football coach Chris Ault and the Nevada Wolf Pack athletic department have done nothing wrong in relation to the shooting incident involving wide rece...

Amgen Tour of California officials say they should have a decision by 9 a.m. as to what they intend to do about the Stage 1 kick-off set to begin at South Lake Tahoe given that snow is expected in the Sierra through the morning.

Western Nevada College claimed its third regular-season Scenic West Athletic Conference title by sweeping College of Southern Idaho, 12-2 and 3-2, Saturday afternoon at John L. Harvey Field.WNC imp...

HENDERSON - College of Southern Nevada swept Western Nevada in a Scenic West Athletic Conference softball doubleheader.CSN won the opener 11-2 and then rebounded from a 6-3 deficit to win the night...

49ers' Harbaugh to speak at Pack event RENO (AP) - San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh has agreed to give the keynote speech at a fundraiser in July for the athletic program at the University of...

Western Nevada College finds itself in an enviable position heading into the last two weeks of the Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball season.After Saturday's doubleheader sweep of in-state ri...

Western Nevada College split its Scenic West Athletic Conference doubleheader against Snow College Friday at the Edmonds Sports Complex, winning the opener 4-2 and dropping the nightcap 9-3.Prior t...

North Idaho Community College won Saturday's Scenic West Athletic Conference tripleheader against Western Nevada 13-9, 9-4 and 12-4.WNC returns home this Friday to play Snow College in a four-game ...

Three was the key number for the Western Nevada College Wildcats Friday afternoon.The Wildcats got a three-run homer in each game of the doubleheader en route to 7-4 and 10-0 Scenic West Athletic C...

Carson High School students, faculty and staff mourned the loss of two of their own Monday with a memorial at the Carson City campus parking lot following a tragic scuba diving accident on Saturday in Monterey Bay.

RANGELY, Colo. - Donald Glover hit two doubles and drove in six runs to lead Western Nevada College to an easy 17-2 win over Colorado Northwestern Saturday in a Scenic West Athletic Conference game...

Hello Fans,

The undefeated WNC Wildcats (16-0) take on the just as tough Salt Lake Bruins (15-1) this weekend in Salt Lake for the prize of owning first place in the Scenic West Athletic Conference (SWAC). The games will be exclusively broadcast live by audio right here on CarsonNow.org by going to the following link: http://carsonnow.org/play-play-chris-graham Tune-in and fasten your seat-belts for what sure is to be one big dogfight all weekend long!

Regards,

Chris Graham

Voice of WNC Baseball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uLECuGK07U

Several people at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting mentioned the generosity of Mae Adams for donating land to Carson City for the proposed Knowledge and Discovery Center and public plaza, the centerpiece of the City Center/Nugget Project.

I've heard some critics complain about this donation, which does little to bolster their case. Despite the unorthodox lease deal, it really is a donation we should be thankful to have the option of using for a new library.

But this donation does come with one very large and expensive string attached.

This may be the biggest agenda for a Carson City Board of Supervisors meeting in a very long time. The three big items will be a proposed 14 percent property tax rate increase, the $4.5 million first phase of the Multi-Purpose Athletic Complex (MAC), then followed up by the Carson City Center/Nugget Project after lunch. (The full agenda is here)

If you don't have the free time to spend the entire day in the Sierra Room at the Community Center (and limited seating may be an issue), you can keep track of the fun with our live video feed right here. We'll also be liveblogging the meeting via Twitter, as there is sure to be a lot to comment on, so we invite people to join in.

As a warm-up for the Nugget Project discussion, here is a story from the Appeal about that issue, that lists a lot of commentary from locals about the project.

Update: The meeting is in recess until 2, when they take up the Nugget Project.

Gee, and you thought the big issue at Thursday's meeting of the Carson City Board of Supervisors was going to the redevelopment project that has been the object of heated discussions for the past year.

But the revelation that a 14 percent hike in the property tax rate was also on the agenda seems to be causing people to put the Nugget Project on the back burner.

I received a call from the Builders Association of Western Nevada this afternoon about a big property tax increase the Carson City Board of Supervisors is going to vote on tomorrow.

The funny thing is, I read through the agenda last week and didn't see it. But it was easy to miss. It is number 15 on the agenda, and the language used gives very little clue as to what it is (the document is attached below).

A full evening of dinner, speaking and an auction will support Western Nevada College athletics at the college's annual fund-raising event on Saturday, Jan. 15 at the Peppermill Hotel-Casino, Reno. Call (775) 445-3240 for exact time of event.
This year's dinner will feature pitcher Kevin Jepsen of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Jepsen, a Bishop Manogue High School graduate, is a right-handed reliever and a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.



With a goal of 300 drivers, Capital Ford's Drive One 4UR School was on par Saturday to raise $6,000 for Carson High School athletic programs.

More than 300 Carson City residents took a test drive of 12 Ford 2010 and 2011 model cars and trucks at the Carson High School parking lot Saturday to support the girls soccer and basketball teams.

"Carson City once again continues to show its true spirit as a community by getting behind fundraising events such as Drive One 4UR School," said Tim Milligan, general manager for Capital Ford in Carson City.

The Heavenly Ski and Snowboard Foundation at Lake Tahoe has opened registration for the 2010-2011 Alpine, Freestyle and Snowboard Programs. With a variety of options from the One-Day Program to the Full-Time Competitive Program, the Foundation has something for all ages and levels of skiers and riders. Registration packets are available online, at the HSSF building, or by calling the HSSF administration office.

Whether its football, girls and boys soccer or cross country running, the winning streaks continue for the Carson High School athletic program.
Check out carsonsports.com for complete Carson Senator athletic coverage.

Assemblyman John Hambrick this week said he will vie for chairmanship of the Republican Assembly Caucus against sitting chairman Pete Goicoechea if he wins reelection in November. He also expressed concerns about what he characterized as an abuse of power by some in Democratic leadership in Carson City.

CARSON CITY – Lame duck Gov. Jim Gibbons not only fell short in campaign contributions in his recent primary loss to Brian Sandoval, but donations to his legal defense fund have dried up as well.

The Western Nevada College baseball team pounded out nine hits and held 17-year-old phenom Bryce Harper to a 1-for-5 day and struck him out three times.
So that led to another win over College of Southern Nevada, right? Not even close. CSN showed why its arguably the best team in the nation -- and possibly the deepest -- by beating WNC 9-2 on Saturday in the championship round of the Scenic West Athletic Conference postseason tournament in Henderson.

Duane Kuiper keeps using the line when describing the San Francisco Giants, but the Western Nevada College baseball team might as well steal the term from Kuiper and use it as its slogan.
 
WNC baseball -- TORTURE!

Everything is magnified in the postseason. Every left baserunner. Every error. So what could be considered just another loss in the regular season that really wasn't that bad of an effort, isn't so in the postseason.
 
Or as Western Nevada College baseball coach D.J.

Western Nevada College and College of Southern Nevada will get together to revive their instate rivalry in the opening round of the Scenic West Athletic Conference playoffs on Thursday in a game scheduled to start at noon (MST) in Salt Lake City.

"Athlete-speak" calls for all players to shrug off so-called snubs. But athletes are human beings, too, and the Western Nevada College baseball team may have some extra motivation going into Thursday's game against Salt Lake Community College.

While the Western Nevada College baseball team, Salt Lake Community College and College of Southern Idaho have all had their moments this year, WNC baseball coach D.J. Whittemore said College of Southern Nevada is still unquestionably the class of the Scenic West Athletic Conference.
"They know they're going to win," said Whittemore about CSN being the favorite in this week's SWAC postseason tournament. "Everyone else thinks they're going to win."