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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.

Son of former Edison Viking gets play

By Bob Highfill | Published: August 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
Former Edison High star Derek Kennard, who won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys, has a son, Devon, who is a sophomore at USC. LA Times writer Gary Klein leads his notebook with Kennard’s progress on the Trojans’ defense. USC opens the season on Thursday at Hawaii. By Gary Klein Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The [...]
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The Hawk soars

By Bob Highfill | Published: August 24, 2010 | 0 Comments
Check out this video of Edison High graduate and Tennesse Titans receiver Lavelle Hawkins taking flight during a 22-yard run in a preseason game on Monday, Aug. 23 against the Arizona Cardinals.
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Please, please, please …

By Bob Highfill | Published: August 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
Here’s hoping the shakeup of the WAC creates a domino effect that forces Pacific to aggressively seek and ultimately gain entry into the WCC and leave the Big West, one of the nation’s most obscure and irrelevant conferences. Men’s basketball is the only sport that matters financially at Pacific. The Tigers should be in the best conference they [...]
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Something’s up

By Bob Highfill | Published: August 13, 2010 | 0 Comments
In a previous blog I wrote that the Stockton Lightning website had nothing on it but a one-sentence greeting saying they were gone but coming back soon. A few days after posting this, word came that the San Jose Wolves of the American Indoor Football Association want a new home and they’re interested in relocating to [...]
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Gone but coming back?

By Bob Highfill | Published: August 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
Go to the Stockton Lightning’s website and this is all that appears: stocktonlightning.com has been shut down and will return soon. The Lightning folded after four years following the 2009 season, when the Arena Football League 1 failed to include a lower tier division. In a recent article by Record sports reporter Scott Linesburgh, former Lightning owner Michael [...]
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Tiger’s time has passed?

By Bob Highfill | Published: July 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
Check out the link below for a column written by Joe Posnanski of Sports Illustrated about Tiger Woods. Posnanski brings up some interesting points about Woods and suggests that he might not break Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major championships. Give it a read and let me know what you think about it. http://joeposnanski.si.com/2010/07/18/writing-off-tiger/?xid=siextraw_071910
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Thunder fans are amazing

By Bob Highfill | Published: July 15, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Thunder sent out an email to season-ticket holders inviting them to a question-and-answer session with owner Brad Rowbotham, president Dan Chapman and coach Matt Thomas. The team’s brass thought 75, maybe 80 would RSVP for the event on July 14 at Stockton Arena. They had seating for about 250. They were going to open [...]
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Get off my mound

By Bob Highfill | Published: July 6, 2010 | 0 Comments
The A’s are milking Dallas Braden’s spat with Alex Rodriguez with the Yankees visiting the Coliseum this week. Almost three months after the Stockton resident drew headlines for lamenting A-Rod for crossing over the mound on his way to the dugout during one of his starts, the A’s are selling “Get off my mound” T-shirts for about $15 [...]
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Put a cork in it

By Bob Highfill | Published: June 15, 2010 | 0 Comments
Stockton resident Bill Schubert purchased a game-used Pete Rose bat from the 1985 season when Rose was in pursuit of Ty Cobb’s all-time hits record. Schubert suspected the bat might have been corked, due to rumors that Rose used corked bats in 1985. Below are photos of the bat and the X-ray showing something foreign [...]
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Al Pereira, longtime official, dies

By Bob Highfill | Published: May 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
Longtime sports official and lifelong sports fan Al Pereira of Stockton died early Wednesday morning at age 89. His son, Mike, who recently retired as the NFL’s vice president of officiating, confirmed his father’s death in an email to The Record. “We lost a true sports fan,” Pereira wrote. “He was a good man and a good [...]
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    Linesburgh has been a member of The Record's sports department for 22 years. A native of Wantagh, N.Y., he has covered the Stockton Thunder hockey franchise since its inception in 2005 and has spent two decades reporting on motorsports and various ... Read Full
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