Youth basketball ends, opens again
      The Westlake National Junior Basketball League completed another six-week summer season with its championship games on Aug. 19 at the Westlake High School gym. More than 200 boys and girls participated in Championship Day.
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Locals lift Bruins to No. 14 preseason ranking
Players from Conejo Valley expected to make big contributions to UCLA's football team
By Thomas Gase tgase@theacorn.com
      Last year the UCLA football team surprised many experts when it pulled off an upset of crosstown rival USC in the last game of the regular season. This season, five former local high school standouts will look to make sure that game was not a fluke.
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Sullivan emerges as top distance runner at TOHS
Senior ready to lead revamped Lancer girls' cross country team
By Thomas Gase tgase@theacorn.com
      Two years ago Kaitlyn Sullivan was a part of the Thousand Oaks High girls' cross country team that won the CIF Division I state championship. Now, as Sullivan prepares for her senior year at TOHS, she's hoping the Lancers can turn back the clock and post a similar result.
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Website offers $100,000 to fantasy football champ
By Stephen Dorman sdorman@theacorn.com
      Fantasy football season has officially arrived. While traditional headtohead or point-based scoring leagues continue to gain mainstream popularity, the folks at RotoHog.com are offering something a little less conventional for its users this season.
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Chisholm hired as sports information director at CLU
      Scott Chisholm has joined California Lutheran University as sports information director. Chisholm comes to CLU from University of La Verne, where he served as an assistant sports information director while pursuing his MBA.
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Lambo swinging a hot bat in minor leagues
      Newbury Park High graduate Andrew Lambo is having no trouble adjusting to life in the minor leagues. Playing for the Gulf Coast League Dodgers, a rookie-ball affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Lambo was hitting .341 with five home runs and 28 RBI in his first 167 profess...
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Stout defense lifts Eagles to title
      EAGLES SOAR- The Eagles Soccer Club girls' U-10 team won the Oaks Classic in Newbury Park. The team did not allow a goal en route to a 5-0 record. Team members hail from Camarillo, Ventura, Newbury Park, Agoura and Malibu.
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Fall Ball sign-ups in Newbury Park
      Newbury Park PONY Baseball is now taking registration for youngsters ages 4 through 14 for its instructional Fall Ball season. The 10-week season runs from Sept. 16 through Nov. 18, with games being played at Dos Vientos Sports Complex.
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