The Jackson High School Tigers did a fair job of defending the Amador High School Thundering Herd, but could not keep their offense from giving the Herd easy scores and fell to the Herd 20-0 in the 1972 version of the “Big Game” last week in Sutter Creek.

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The Calaveras High School varsity volleyball team’s season came to an end with a loss to Marin Academy in the opening round of the CIF state playoffs on Tuesday, November 12 in San Rafael.

Coming off a regular season that included a historic victory over Sonora and its first Mother Lode League championship since 2001, the Amador High School varsity football team is ready for what’s next.

Jackson’s own Justin Cornell will be back in action this Saturday, November 16, when he takes on Ysidro Gutierrez at the GKO XV mixed martial arts event at Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort. Cornell, a featherweight fighter representing the Underground MMA/Cen Cal’s Buster Nighthawk Fight Team…

Very few baseball players ever get the opportunity to experience what it is like playing in a Major League stadium. Amador County’s own Tyson Reis will have that opportunity for the first time in his young life, as he partakes in a baseball showcase at Chase Field – the home of the Arizona D…

An overtime thriller between the Ione Junior High School and Toyon Middle School eighth-grade girls basketball teams highlighted the final day of the 45th annual AMA Girls Basketball Tournament on Saturday, November 9 in Angels Camp.

The Calaveras High School football team’s dreams of winning the first section football championship in school history came to a sudden and crashing end on Wednesday afternoon, November 13 when head coach Doug Clark informed his players that they would have to forfeit their upcoming quarterfi…

After racing to a Mother Lode League championship and first-place finish at the Sac-Joaquin Section subsections meet last week, the Calaveras High School varsity boys cross country team is primed to do what just one other team in school history has accomplished.

17th annual Turkey Trot

Take a listen to the weekly Mother Lode fishing report with "The Rodfather" — Brian Conway.

Question: I speared a 15” blue rockfish at Ocean Cove over Labor Day weekend. It had a large belly but no eggs or anything extraordinary within its stomach or fillets. Within the gut cavity, attached to the end of the intestine (near the anus), there was a 3.5 cm white mass with a black tip …

The Valley Springs Elementary School fifth-grade girls basketball team was in a league of its own this season.