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Bengals Call Up Purify
Bengals Call Up Purify: The Cincinnati Bengals have placed wide receiver Mo Purify — a Eureka native — on their roster, following another player’s season-ending injury. Purify had been playing on the Bengals’ practice team. That means there’s now two Eureka High grads in the Bengals’ lineup — Purify and linebacker Rey Maualuga. The two […]
Feelin’ AMPT
With the Eureka Skate Park scheduled to be skatable by the end of the summer , let the Humboldt skate-scene P.R. campaign begin. Clearly not all of this video was shot behind the Redwood Curtain (the Golden Gate timelapse, por ejemplo ), but much of it clearly was. (Feel free to play “identify that clip” […]
Running The Cup
organic. From Runner’s Web we learn that McKinleyvillian and ultrarunner Todd Braje is the newest member of the USA 100K Team, which will be kicking up the dirt in Belgium on June 19 at the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) 100K World Cup. And from another trail runner, who interviewed Braje on his blog, we […]
Meet Rey Maualuga (tonight)
Rey Maualuga Remember last week’s post about former Eureka High football star Rey Maualuga ? We just got a call from Pete Ciotti of Big Pete’s Pizzareia , letting us know that Rey will be at the pizza joint tonight (Thursday) between 4 and 5:30 for a ESPN broadcast interview on 1340 a.m. Come on […]
Tough soft guy
Check out the profile on one-time Eureka High football star Rey Maualuga.
Also For Your Consideration
So you’re already out there supporting the home team in various online competitions and such. While you’re at it, why not lend a hand to USC linebacker (and Eureka native) Rey Maualuga? Over at this page , a sponsor of the Heisman Trophy ceremonies is selling off its Heisman vote to the highest bidder, Internet-poll-style. […]
Nitro shakes
Auto Racing Daily found Fortuna native Hillary Will, fastest drag-racing woman ever, pining for vrooom and the sweet scent of dragster gas after she’d spent a rare weekend off over Memorial Day watching other people drive at NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 in North Carolina. “Being there made me miss the smell of nitro and the sound of an 8,000-horsepower race car,” she told […]
Loaded for bear
We like to kill bears in Humboldt County. The Daily Triplicate tells us that Humboldt ranks fifth among California counties for bear kills (117 were 86’d by hunters last year), while noting that its own county — Del Norte — has felt a diminishing appetite for bear over the years (just 29 killed last year, down […]
King’s pretty new map
Tim Daniels, of the Bigfoot Bicycle Club, just sent out a note on the club’s message board that the BLM-Whitethorn office has uploaded a map of its emerging mountain bike trail in the Paradise Ridge region of the King Range National Conservation Area. The trail won’t be completed until this fall, but there are some […]
The Other Hillary
Where there’s a Will, there’s a way. Just ask 27-year-old Fortuna native Hillary Will, the fastest female in the history of NHRA drag racing. Will, in her nitro-fueled, 8,000-horsepower dragster, will compete this weekend, Feb. 22-24, at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series at Firebird Int’l Raceway in Phoenix, Ariz. If she doesn’t do well, […]
Burly, But Not Yet Burly Enough
Hella shredding news for the long-dreamed-of Eureka Skate Park. The Havasu News-Herald (don’t ask) reports that the Tony Hawk Foundation has kicked down with a $25,000 grant. Now for the buzzkill. Check this Nov. 21 Eureka Reporter article : But roughly $250,000 is still needed for to project to be a go, to reach the […]