What better time is there to get back on track and win some basketball games than a five-game home stand during Christmas week? The Sacramento Kings were looking to do just that beginning with a Sunday matinee against the Houston Rockets. However, in what has become an unfortunate theme this season, the Kings once again could not put together a complete game and produced just 12 points in the fourth quarter, resulting in a 102-93 loss to the Rockets. Sunday’s loss was Sacramento’s fifth in a row, which dropped the team’s record to 5-20 while Houston improved to 12-15 with the victory. On Saturday, the Kings announced they would be without the services of forward Jason Thompson for the

  In a game that took just two hours and 22 minutes to complete Friday, the Sacramento River Cats were shut out and held to just three hits in the finale of a four-game series against the Tacoma Rainiers. Rainiers starting pitcher Chris Seddon threw 106 pitches in what was the first complete game in his career. This is Seddon’s 10th season as a pro baseball player; he improved his record this season to six wins and two losses. River Cats starter Travis Blackley also pitched a nice game, lasting 6 1/3 innings with six strikeouts and one walk. His only blemish was a two-run home run to Mike Wilson. The only scoring of the night came in the top of the second inning when Tacoma right field

Sacramento, CA--This month marks the fourth year of my father’s death. Dad was so caught up in the day-to-day particulars of his suburban North Sac life and as a caregiver to my Mother, I think at times he actually forgot to enjoy it.   The day after he passed, I was searching his home office, drowning in grief and looking for something (anything) to comfort me. I spied Dad’s small spiral bound note pad with his pen resting at a jaunty angle on top of the page. There was a long "To Do" list scribbled in ink—bills to pay, errands to run, and fix-it projects around the house. Just five days prior, he had renewed his October subscription to National Geographic and his AARP membership.   A