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Bob Highfill

Bob Highfill has worked in The Record’s sports department since 1990. He has covered a variety of sports, including high schools, Pacific and professional sports. In 2006, he was named sports editor. Bob is a graduate of Lincoln High and the University of Southern California. He and his wife, Christiane, live in Stockton.

Fast lane

By Bob Highfill | Published: March 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
Elena Myers is 16 years old and has loved racing motorcycles since she was 8 years old. This week, the Discovery Bay resident who trains in Stockton made her professional debut at Daytona International Speedway, which in motorsports parlance is akin to Madison Square Garden for basketball fans. In a race Thursday in which she finished seventh, she hit a [...]
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Tigers ugly in bounce-back win

By Bob Highfill | Published: March 1, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Tigers men’s basketball team snapped its two-game home losing streak with a hard-fought, 10-point win over Long Beach State on Saturday in their regular-season home finale. The Tigers won, but it was ugly. Again, their offense was spotty, they lacked flow and cohesion. Every coach wants his team to be peaking at this time in the season. Pacific [...]
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Hard to watch

By Bob Highfill | Published: February 25, 2010 | 0 Comments
The team I was pretty high on just a couple weeks ago is in serious trouble. Something has gone horribly awry for the Pacific men’s basketball team in the past two games. Its defense was virutally non-existent in the second half in their loss against New Mexico State last Saturday and they looked lethargic and uninspired on Thursday facing [...]
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Cool Canadian customer

By Bob Highfill | Published: February 22, 2010 | 0 Comments
Brad Rowbotham was introduced as owner-in-waiting by the Thunder on Monday. The Canadian oil man won’t have to wait long, probably three to six weeks while the league and city approve the deal. The 41-year-old replaces Michael Reinsdorf, who brought the team to Stockton in 2005. Reinsdorf’s biggest contribution to the franchise was being smart enough [...]
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Community Day

By Bob Highfill | Published: February 17, 2010 | 0 Comments
Pacific athletics is offering free admission to Saturday’s softball and baseball games. They’re calling it Community Day and it gives people an opportunity to go on campus and check out the Tigers’ softball and baseball squads. Fans can stay at either game or check them both out. The softball team is playing a doubleheader against [...]
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Winter freeze

By Bob Highfill | Published: February 10, 2010 | 0 Comments
This probably isn’t a good idea, admitting that I’m not the least bit excited about the Winter Olympics. Opening ceremonies are Friday. There will be ample coverage of the Games, which run through March 1, in The Record sports section. But forgive me if I can’t get fired up about the halfpipe, cross country skiing, the [...]
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What a night

By Bob Highfill | Published: February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
Jacki Gemelos was back to doing what she does best on Thursday. The former St. Mary’s High star and the nation’s top recruit in 2006 finally took to the court in a game after a series of knee injuries had kept her on the sidelines. She entered the game for USC at Cal after only 26 [...]
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Big night for Jacki

By Bob Highfill | Published: February 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
Steve and Linda Gemelos won’t sleep tonight. Who could blame them? It’s been more than three years since their celebrated daughter, Jacki, played in a basketball game. Tomorrow, the former St. Mary’s High standout and quite possibly the greatest girls high school player this area ever has known, will step on the court as a member of [...]
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The team no one cares about

By Bob Highfill | Published: February 1, 2010 | 0 Comments
Saturday, my wife and I went to Valley Brew to watch the Pacific-UC Riverside men’s basketball game on ESPN2. I can’t remember the last time the Tigers were on one of ESPN’s main stations. Fortunately, we found two seats front-and-center. The game went on after the conclusion of Rutgers-Notre Dame. The TV next to ours was [...]
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Lance back at USC

By Bob Highfill | Published: January 12, 2010 | 0 Comments
Lane Kiffin, famously referred to as Lance Kiffin by Raiders owner Al Davis during his introduction as their coach a few years ago, is USC’s new football coach. As an ‘SC alum and football fan, I am shocked and disappointed. I don’t like Lane Kiffin. I think he’s a spoiled brat riding his daddy Monte’s reputation; a smarmy (is that a [...]
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