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Gary Gerould Offers Some Play-by-Play About His Life and Career
The sports announcer goes off-mic to do his own color commentary
Gary Gerould, aka The G-Man, has spent more than six decades as a sports journalist and play-by-play announcer. His greatest gift may be that you don’t have to care that much about the sports he’s covered (basketball, auto racing, sumo wrestling and football come immediately to mind) to be familiar with his name, his distinctively even-keeled voice and his remarkable unflappability.
![First-half action against UC San Diego on Dec. 18. With seating for just over 1,000 fans, it’s smaller than most high school gyms in the Capital Region. Despite its limitations, the cozy Hornet Gym — also known as The Nest — has been the main facility for NCAA indoor sports at Sacramento State since 1955. (Photos by Steve Martarano)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/6-december_18_2023nest_final_days.png?1705426834)
Too Big for The Nest
After 69 years, Sacramento State has outgrown the hallowed sports facility
With a seating capacity for just over a thousand fans, it’s smaller than most Capital Region high school gyms. Despite its limitations, the cozy Hornet Gym — also known as The Nest — has been the main facility for NCAA indoor sports at Sacramento State since 1955.
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Dedication, Dance and Violence
Meet the Sacramento State student who moved from India to study mixed martial arts with Urijah Faber
At only 18 years old, Aranjot Kaur moved from her home in India to Sacramento to pursue her dream: becoming a professional mixed martial arts athlete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, one of the world’s most influential MMA organizations.
![Tom Meschery, left, plays basketball with fellow NBA stars Bob Rule and Wilt Chamberlain circa 1967. Meschery is now an 84-year-old writer living in Sacramento. (Public domain photo by Martin Blumenthal via Wikimedia Commons)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/tom_meschery_bob_rule_and_wilt_chamberlain.png?1701190514)
Getting to Know: Tom Meschery
The former basketball pro settles into a peaceful life as a writer in Sacramento’s University Heights
Writer and Sacramentan Tom Meschery is celebrating the recent release of “The Case of the ‘66 Ford Mustang.” The series is set in Oakland, and Meschery draws from his time spent in the Bay Area, which includes playing basketball for the NBA’s Warriors during the 1960s.
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With ‘Boulevard Dreams,’ the Sacramento History Museum Focuses on Lowriders — as Cars and as a Cultural Touchstone
A ‘paradigm shift’ for a treasured local institution
More than two dozen 1950s and ‘60s vintage cars were parked in a semi-circle in front of the Sacramento History Museum’s entrance, heralding attendees to enter a world they had likely encountered over the past several decades but may have feared or simply misunderstood.
![Sacramento Republic FC is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with sold-out crowds. The soccer club has formed a devoted and passionate fan base in the past decade, including the raucous, flag waving Tower Bridge Battalion, which sings, yells, screams and stands for the entire 90 minutes of a match. (Photos by Steve Martarano)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/august_26_2023srfc_hughes_stadium6.png?1699234792)
Sacramento Republic FC Celebrates 10 Years in the State Capital
The soccer club has captured the heart of the region with its successes
While other professional soccer teams have come to town with hype and promise, only to flicker briefly before disappearing — teams like the Gold, Spirits, Geckos, Scorpions, Senators and the Knights — the United Soccer League’s Sac Republic connected with the Capital Region in a major way.
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History Speeds on at the West’s Oldest Running Racetrack
Historic Stockton 99 Speedway keeps the racing dream alive in San Joaquin County
The roar of auto engines and the smell of gasoline, hot dogs,
barbecue and beer have marked summer Saturday nights at
the Stockton 99 Speedway since 1947 at the oldest
running racetrack west of the Mississippi.
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Braving the Wild Waters
The Sierra Nevada’s huge snowpack is melting, making for thrilling rafting adventures this year
The South Fork of the American River looked like the high seas or a stormy lake in late May, with four times the normal amount of water coursing through Chili Bar, known for challenging rapids even in dry years.