Good News for Stockton, CA!
January 31st, 2007Yes, there is good news for my childhood hometown of Stockton, California — and I’m not even being sarcastic this time. This development has to do with the world of sports and a particularly unlikely athletic event.
No — for those trying to guess — it’s not that the Stockton Bears matched up with the Riveroak Redskins again, didn’t lose and have one of their players manhandled by an opposing coach. It also has nothing to do with hoodlums doing donuts in lowered, bass-thumping jalopies in sideshow competitions either. Instead, it has to do with the 2nd annual Tour of California, America’s premier bicycle stage race.
Why did I lift some eyebrows when I first learned of this news? Well, as any real Stocktonian would tell you, “Roads ain’t for bikes they for cars. Like, duh!” I still have vivid memories of trying to bike […]






