The Sacramento River Cats bested the Reno Aces 4-2 Friday night, taking the first game of a five-games series between the divison leaders. The final game of the series is Monday night. Visit the River Cats website to purchase tickets. Here are some photos from the game:

In their first Big Sky Conference game of the season, the Sacramento State football team upset No. 20-ranked Weber State 24-17 in front of 7,000 fans at Hornet Stadium on Saturday night. The Hornets improve to a 2-1 overall record and 1-0 in Big Sky Conference play for the season. The win on Saturday night puts them in a first-place tie with Eastern Washington University in the Big Sky Conference standings. The Hornets’ ground game was impressive, totaling 245 yards for the night against the Wildcats’ 102 yards. Running back Bryan Hilliard notched his second consecutive 100-yard rushing game, finishing with 136 yards on 32 carries and a touchdown made in the last minutes of the game. Run

        Think back to your freshman year of high school.  Imagine you just went through an especially excruciating day of what was surely an excruciating year.  You slept through first period, missed a quiz, got pantsed on the green (or a comparable humiliation), your crush pointed out that you had a "bat in the cave," and everybody laughed at you . . . you get the idea. Murphy saw your day, and was so moved, that he wrote a law to commemorate it.               Fourteen-year-old you somehow made it through this day from Hell.  You got home, got to your room, locked your door and laid on your bed, overwhelmed with a soul-crushing angst that only a 14-year-old can feel.                You

First off, here’s a little reminder about Smashing Pumpkins at the Crest Theatre on Monday; Tickets.com indicates that the event is sold out, but some day-ofs may still pop up. Best to try the Crest directly for any hope of catching Pumpkins 2.0. Aside from that whopper of a local show, here’s the other fun on deck for your Labor Day weekend, after you pour beer on the coals and head out on the town! Chalk it Up Festival – Now, we certainly don’t want you to step over those awesome sidewalk drawings that our local conglomerate of chalk-stick Rembrandts will be spinning on Labor Day weekend – but, from a music standpoint, this lineup just keeps getting more and more awesome, and this year

Boxing returned to Sacramento Saturday night with Battle of the Badges VII, an annual charity boxing event featuring correctional officers, police officers and firefighters from the Northern California area. Fifteen bouts of three two-minute rounds took place in front of an estimated 2,000-3,000 boxing fans at Memorial Auditorium, benefiting such charities as the Firefighters Burn Institute, Sac Fallen Officers Resource Fund, The Sacramento Sheriff’s Toy Project and Sacramento SPCA. Some agencies represented in the matches included the Sacramento and Vallejo fire departments; the Sacramento, Davis and Woodland police departments; the California Highway Patrol and California State Prison,

 A hot afternoon saw the River Cats defeated 2-1 by the Omaha Royals in front of 8,292 fans at Raley Field on Sunday. The Cats trail 2-1 in the four-game series and are now two games behind Fresno in the PCL Pacific South Division race. Great pitching from Sacramento's Travis Banwart and Omaha's Anthony Lerew kept the game scoreless for six innings. The pitchers gave up four and five hits, respectively. A throwing error by Cats shortstop Eric Sogard in the top of the seventh eventually set up an RBI from Omaha's Cody Clark, allowing second baseman Kurt Mertins to score. Omaha scored again with center fielder Jarrod Dyson in the top of the ninth, making it 2-0. The Cats got a solo home r

Sacramento CA- A Rancho Cordova man dies in a motorcycle vs construction equipment accident in Citrus Heights. Just before 3 a.m. Friday morning, CHP and Sacramento Metro Fire Department responded to a motorcycle accident on Sunrise Blvd just before Sunset Ave in Citrus Heights .Per CHP, a Sacramento County construction crew was doing sweage work and witnessed a Rancho Cordova man, possibly traveling at a high rate of speed on a full dressed Yamaha, hit a cone in the contruction zone. He lost control sliding under a utility trailer. The motorcycle continued moving down the road and slammed into another truck in the construction zone. The man suffered fatal injuries, and it is unknown, at

Dr. Seuss would have had a field day describing the hats at The Village Hat Shop in Old Sacramento. With more than 1,000 styles and 120,000 hats between its four locations and two warehouses, this is one store worth tipping your hat to. The company got its start in 1980 in San Diego as a specialty western-style hat store banking on the emerging cowboy hat trend, which was propelled by the television show "Dallas" and the John Travolta movie "Urban Cowboy." When the cowboy fad died out, the company began stocking different styles of hats. Today, patrons of the shop can find anything from a fedora, beret, trilby, a newsboy or even a Panama at The Village Hat Shop, located at 123 K St. "W