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  2. Sports in Sacramento, California - Wikipedia

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    The Sacramento XSV (pronounced "excessive") of the National Professional Paintball League represents the City but is based in Modesto, California. The last sports team to come to Sacramento was the Sacramento Mountain Lions which was part of the United Football League (2009). They played at Raley Field, home of the Sacramento River Cats.

  3. List of sports officials who died while active - Wikipedia

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    Cause of death Date of death Ref(s) Maree Rodebaugh: 56 shot put: Amateur Athletic Union [a] internal bleeding after being struck in back during meet May 29, 1977 [15] Paul Suzuki: 77 shot put: USA Track & Field [b] brain injury during pre-meet practice June 22, 2005 [16] Dieter Strack: 74 javelin throw: Düsseldorf Athletics impaled during ...

  4. Ray Clemons - Wikipedia

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    Clemons served as the head football coach at California State University, Sacramento—known as Sacramento State College before 1972—from 1961 to 1975, compiling a record of 72–75–3. Biography [ edit ]

  5. Sacramento Smokeys - Wikipedia

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    The Sacramento Smokeys were a semi-pro and collegiate summer baseball team located in Sacramento, California, founded in 1949 by Larry Manuian, who ran the team until his death in 2011. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Smokeys played in multiple leagues in Northern California usually consisting of their prominent rivals such as the Fontanetti's Athletics and ...

  6. Gene Cronin - Wikipedia

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    In 1952, he enrolled at Sacramento City College. In 1953, he transferred to the University of the Pacific. He played in the 1956 East–West Shrine Game. In 1984, he was inducted into the Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame. [1] In 2001, he was inducted into the Sacramento City College Hall of Fame. [2]

  7. Doug Christie - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] While in Sacramento, Christie was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team once and to the All-Defensive Second Team three times. [31] During the 2000-2001 season, Sports Illustrated dubbed the Kings' starting five of Jason Williams , Peja Stojaković , Chris Webber , Vlade Divac , and Christie "The Greatest Show on Court ...

  8. Ricky Berry - Wikipedia

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    Berry was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1964, when his father Bill Berry was a student-athlete at Michigan State University.The Berry family moved to the Sacramento, California area in 1966 when Bill Berry became head coach at a local high school and later Cosumnes River Junior College.

  9. Rafer Johnson - Wikipedia

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    He made several film appearances, mostly in the 1960s. Johnson worked full-time as a sportscaster in the early 1970s. He was a weekend sports anchor on the local NBC affiliate in Los Angeles, KNBC, but seemed uncomfortable in that position and eventually moved on to other things. [13]