Jon Mettus
The Bakersfield Cali
Syracuse, NY, United States
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CSUB falls to Texas-Rio Grande Valley in WAC men's basketball tournament
LAS VEGAS — Taze Moore held his jersey between his teeth. The Cal State Bakersfield men’s basketball redshirt sophomore walked to the end of the bench and planted his head → Read More
CSUB's Jarkel Joiner is trying to prove — even to himself — that he belongs
Cal State Bakersfield sophomore guard Jarkel Joiner wants to prove a point. → Read More
Dasia Wandick has turned into a go-to scorer with BC women's basketball
Dasia Wandick didn’t want her Bakersfield College teammates to think she was a ball hog. → Read More
Local Rams fans relish Super Bowl watching experience
The blue and yellow throwback jerseys worn throughout Red Zone Sports Bar and Grill in downtown Bakersfield mirrored the jerseys shown on the approximately 21 television screens hanging on the → Read More
WAC preview: CSUB men's basketball hoping for rebound year
Cal State Bakersfield starts Western Athletic Conference play on Thursday, hosting Seattle at 7 p.m. in the Icardo Center. After two straight seasons with either a conference regular season or → Read More
Rickey Holden’s daughter is why he’s at CSUB and what makes it the hardest
Two pictures hang in Rickey Holden’s apartment bedroom. They’re his most significant pieces of home. → Read More
CSUB men’s basketball developing two-way players
Cal State Bakersfield men’s basketball coach Rod Barnes has a similar conversation with his team every year. This season, sophomore guard Jarkel Joiner took special note of it. → Read More
3 Bakersfield College football players’ ejections overturned, East LA players suspended
Three of the four Bakersfield College football players ejected during the Renegades’ 58-17 win over East Los Angeles had their disqualifications overturned. → Read More
VIDEO: Fights end Bakersfield College football game
Click here to view this video from Bakersfield.com. → Read More
Bakersfield College football kicks off 2018 season with first full gear practice, media day
Bakersfield College football coach Jeff Chudy was in rare form on Thursday, letting jokes fly about being late to his wedding, the temperature, uniforms and his starting roster. → Read More
BC punter Carson Olivas is 'one of the better players that we’ve had in a long time'
Carson Olivas already knew how he stacked up with other junior college punters in California when he headed to Chris Sailer’s “TOP 12” invite-only kicking camp in Sun Valley in → Read More
New CSUB club ice hockey team a 'natural progression'
Local youth hockey coach Bob St. Louis saw players from Bakersfield, that wanted to stay home, going elsewhere for college because collegiate hockey was not available at Cal State Bakersfield. → Read More
CSUB took a chance on Austin Davis. Now the Philadelphia Phillies have, too
Warming up in the bullpen at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, 25-year-old former Cal State Bakersfield pitcher Austin Davis felt what he determined to be an unwarranted amount of confidence. → Read More
BVarsity Boys Tennis Player of the Year: Erik Buetow
Erik Buetow typically doesn’t touch a tennis racket for about four or five months each year. But when he does, the Bakersfield Christian junior is one of the top players → Read More
‘We couldn’t have brought you a better person’: Condors introduce Jay Woodcroft as new head coach
Oilers Entertainment Group chief executive officer and vice chair Bob Nicholson wasted no time publicly declaring his expectations of new Bakersfield Condors head coach Jay Woodcroft and the organization. → Read More
It was a turbulent season for CSUB baseball
Jeremy Beard said it in February before the start of the 2018 season, throughout the year and again on Saturday less than 24 hours after the season ended — turbulence. → Read More
Kyle King 'finally home' at CSUB after four schools in four years
Kyle King is no stranger to the transition period college baseball players have to go through when joining a new team. He understands the process of getting to know the → Read More
Ryun remembers record run 51 years ago at Memorial Stadium
One of Jim Ryun’s strongest memories from the night he etched his name in global sports history (again) and especially Bakersfield sports history was how easy the race was. He → Read More
Frontier's Lemminn becomes first area swimmer to qualify for state meet all four years
FRESNO — Kassidy Lemminn is now in a league of her own among Kern County swimmers. The Frontier senior wasn’t thrilled with her performances at the Central Section Division I → Read More
CSUB women's basketball advances to WAC title game
LAS VEGAS — Cal State Bakersfield senior Aja Williams said she wasn’t used to the “very high” emotions she was experiencing after beating Grand Canyon, 61-55, in the semifinal round → Read More