![Ryan Dirteater stays on the airborne Frequent Flyer just 2.6 seconds during the 15/15 competition.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0218_blog_event_bullriding13.jpg?1577874530)
Sacramento Welcomes the Bulls
Golden 1 Center continues as popular stop for Professional Bull Riders Tour
For 16 consecutive years, first at Arco/Sleep Train Arena and now the Golden 1 Center, Sacramento fans have made it a ritual of grabbing their cowboy hats and heading to the home of the Kings to welcome the best talent the bull riding world has to offer.
![Tahoe resorts are adding more dining options that cater to millennials’ tastes. (Photo credit: Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0118_blog_recreation_slopes1.jpg?1577874530)
Tahoe Resorts Respond to Bleak Forecast
Can the ski destination buck national trends and woo millennials to the slopes?
It’s not just Tahoe resorts struggling to sell tickets to members of the country’s largest generation. While millennials make up about 37 percent of all U.S. snowsport participants, older skiers and snowboarders head to the mountain twice as often.
![The Sacramento Kings has 1.5 million square feet of space to build across six square blocks on the west end of K Street, arguably transforming the basketball team into one of the most prominent real estate developers
in California.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0118_feat_development_lead_elimargetich_0.jpg?1577874530)
Beyond Basketball
The Golden 1 Center opened just over a year ago and transformed the landscape of downtown Sacramento — was the investment worth it?
In a way, not much has changed.
At the Golden 1 Center, Sacramento Kings fans continue to wave cowbells at games, having long since embraced the once-insulting apparatus. The grub still costs a pretty penny. The team remains perpetually in a building year.
![It’s about 3 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in September as 24 crew members begin transforming the Golden 1 Center from a concert venue (British indie pop band The xx played the previous evening) into a basketball court in time for an upcoming pre-season game against the San Antonio Spurs.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/1217_dept_snap_embed1.jpg?1577874530)
Night Court
Transforming the Golden 1 Center, from the ground up.
![Dr. Bennet Omalu is a clinical professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine. (photo courtesy UC Davis)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/1117_blog_sports_football1.jpg?1577874530)
Sacramento’s Dr. Bennet Omalu and His Struggle for Sports Safety
Bennet Omalu is a forensic pathologist who lives comfortably in Sacramento with his wife and two young kids. Chief medical examiner of San Joaquin County and a clinical professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine, his life today contrasts sharply with being a malnourished infant during Nigeria’s Civil War.
![Ethan Martin is a former competitive skier and now works for digital creative agency Bukwild.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/ethanmartin1.jpg?1577874530)
From Professional Skiing to Design Strategy
Why finding patterns has served one design professional through a varied career path
Ethan Martin didn’t take a traditional path to his position as director of user strategy for local digital creative agency Bukwild. In his younger years, he thought he’d map and maneuver challenging ski runs around a mountain town for a living. Instead, as an adult, he finds himself navigating design challenges for a digital creative agency in Old Sacramento.
![From left: Sisters Michelle Katnik, Teresa Santarosa and Elena Katnik own and operate TEAMride, a Sacramento-based spin studio.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/1017_blog_wellness_lead.jpg?1577874530)
The Business of Boutique Fitness
How three sisters are spinning the wheels of specialized fitness success
Ask Elena Katnik’s advice on opening a family-run business, and she’ll caution against it. But not because it hasn’t worked at TEAMride, a popular Sacramento-based spin studio.
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From the Editors: September Business Recap
Comstock’s monthly look at business news in the Capital Region. Want to know what happened in September? Then read on, my friends.
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Good Game
Sacramento Rotary Foundation’s annual Golf 4 Kids event
This story starts back in 1922.
That’s the year when a small group of Sacramento-based doctors combined their professional connections and their Rotary Club memberships to form a program that is now the longest-running Rotary fundraiser in the country.
![Ryan Sypkens at the Sky High Sports facility in Rancho Cordova. (PhotoS by Steve Martarano)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0917_blog_sports1.jpg?1577874530)
Former UC Davis Star Uses Performance Psychology to Train Basketball Hopefuls
As a teenager dominating on the basketball court almost a decade ago, Ryan Sypkens seemed in control.
A prep standout at Elk Grove’s Franklin High School, Sypkens earned accolades as one of the top players in the Sacramento area. Then it was on to UC Davis, where he became a starter at point guard as a freshman.