Curling in Roseville
Ancient sport grows finds modern-day adherents in Northern California
Curling began in Scotland over 500 years ago and now you can find it in Roseville.
Sacramento Welcomes the Bulls
Golden 1 Center continues as popular stop for Professional Bull Riders Tour
For 16 consecutive years, first at Arco/Sleep Train Arena and now the Golden 1 Center, Sacramento fans have made it a ritual of grabbing their cowboy hats and heading to the home of the Kings to welcome the best talent the bull riding world has to offer.
Tahoe Resorts Respond to Bleak Forecast
Can the ski destination buck national trends and woo millennials to the slopes?
It’s not just Tahoe resorts struggling to sell tickets to members of the country’s largest generation. While millennials make up about 37 percent of all U.S. snowsport participants, older skiers and snowboarders head to the mountain twice as often.
Beyond Basketball
The Golden 1 Center opened just over a year ago and transformed the landscape of downtown Sacramento — was the investment worth it?
In a way, not much has changed.
At the Golden 1 Center, Sacramento Kings fans continue to wave cowbells at games, having long since embraced the once-insulting apparatus. The grub still costs a pretty penny. The team remains perpetually in a building year.
Night Court
Transforming the Golden 1 Center, from the ground up.
Sacramento’s Dr. Bennet Omalu and His Struggle for Sports Safety
Bennet Omalu is a forensic pathologist who lives comfortably in Sacramento with his wife and two young kids. Chief medical examiner of San Joaquin County and a clinical professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine, his life today contrasts sharply with being a malnourished infant during Nigeria’s Civil War.
From Professional Skiing to Design Strategy
Why finding patterns has served one design professional through a varied career path
Ethan Martin didn’t take a traditional path to his position as director of user strategy for local digital creative agency Bukwild. In his younger years, he thought he’d map and maneuver challenging ski runs around a mountain town for a living. Instead, as an adult, he finds himself navigating design challenges for a digital creative agency in Old Sacramento.
The Business of Boutique Fitness
How three sisters are spinning the wheels of specialized fitness success
Ask Elena Katnik’s advice on opening a family-run business, and she’ll caution against it. But not because it hasn’t worked at TEAMride, a popular Sacramento-based spin studio.
From the Editors: September Business Recap
Comstock’s monthly look at business news in the Capital Region. Want to know what happened in September? Then read on, my friends.
Good Game
Sacramento Rotary Foundation’s annual Golf 4 Kids event
This story starts back in 1922.
That’s the year when a small group of Sacramento-based doctors combined their professional connections and their Rotary Club memberships to form a program that is now the longest-running Rotary fundraiser in the country.