Author Archives: Andrew Matheson

About Andrew Matheson

Andrew Matheson covers sports for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. E-mail him at amatheson@santacruzsentinel.com, or follow him on Twitter at @amatheson_sc.

Scott Machado’s 10-day contract

Today, April 17, is Scott Machado’s final day of his 10-day contract with the Golden State Warriors. Machado, a guard out of Iona College, was called up April 7 by Golden State and was in uniform during the team’s game … Continue reading

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How I met Bill Illet

I recently did a three-part series with the Santa Cruz Warriors when I traveled with them to Boise, Idaho. You can read Part I, Part II and Part III. Anyway, I was on the bus with the team heading to … Continue reading

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Watsonville’s Carina Moreno spars with 2012 Olympian Marlen Esparza

Watsonville boxer and WBA flyweight champ Carina Moreno, who is returning from an injury since fighting Susi Kentikian in Germany in December, sparred in March against Marlen Esparza in San Carlos. Esparza, of course, qualified to the 2012 Olympics in … Continue reading

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UFC’s Rockhold drops Earthquakes mascot with soccer ball

Santa Cruz’s Luke Rockhold — and his good friend and fellow AKA fighter Daniel Cormier — performed the ceremonial “first goal” when the San Jose Earthquakes recently hosted the Vancouver Whitecaps. Rockhold is far left in the video. The below … Continue reading

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Video: New Scu, Scu Scutaro?

Apparently, Giants fans have updated the Sussudio song parody to acurately reflect Marco Scutaro’s current team. Here’s the original (?) Red Sox version. Below is the new Giants version. Thanks to digi drums for the link. As always, enjoy.

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Video: PCS’ Morgan Green’s junior mixtape

Last week, we ran a story on Pacific Collegiate’s Morgan Green being named MVP of the Mission Trail Athletic League. You can read it here. Anyway, when I was searching for stats online, I came across her recently released mixtape … Continue reading

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Video: Soquel is team to beat in SCCAL softball

Here’s a video previewing the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League softball season. Enjoy.

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Video: Double Coverage bloopers

Producer Tony Solis put together a blooper reel from all the Double Coverage footage we had this past fall. Needless to say, we didn’t know the camera was constantly rolling. Well, Jim might have. How else do you explain all … Continue reading

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Video: Quinn Mulhern’s UFC debut vs. Rick Story

Harbor High alum Quinn Mulhern made his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut against Rick Story at UFC 158 on Saturday night in Montreal. Mulhern lost by a TKO in the first round. Here’s the brief write-up we had in Sunday’s Sentinel. … Continue reading

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Pacific Collegiate’s Morgan Green named MVP of the MTAL

Here’s the All-League selections for the Mission Trail Athletic League. No surprise, Morgan Green from Pacific Collegiate School is the MVP. MISSION TRAIL ATHLETIC LEAGUE All-League Most Valuable Player — Morgan Green, Pacific Collegiate Coach of the Year — Tito … Continue reading

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