Sat, 12/04/2010 - 07:28 by Prince damin
San Jose, Calif. -- California researchers say they are struggling to unravel the mystery of the "ghosts of the forest," rare albino saplings in the state's coastal redwood groves.
The world's only white evergreens, the rare genetic mutants appear and disappear seasonally, the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News reported.
Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, are hoping to learn how such helpless trees can survive.
"It is a great puzzle," said Ghia Euskirchen, director of the DNA Sequencing Program at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Wed, 12/01/2010 - 09:23 by Prince damin
San Jose, Calif. -- A power outage in San Jose, Calif., that threatened to cancel Tuesday's NHL Sharks-Red Wings game has been fixed and the game will go on, officials said.
Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment, managers of the HP Pavilion, said a power failure at the arena that began at 8:45 a.m. PST had been resolved, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The outage was "due to a problem with an on-site electrical switchgear," the company said in a statement.
"With the assistance of (Pacific Gas & Electric), the problem has been repaired," the statement said. "We do not expect the outage to have any impact on the Sharks/Red Wings game at 7:30 p.m. (PST) this evening."
Many of the Red Wings skipped a morning skate due to the outage.
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Wed, 11/24/2010 - 05:50 by Prince damin
San Jose, Calif. -- Animal groups in California said they are seeking homes for more than 1,000 rats discovered in a man's home during the filming of a reality TV show.
Rescuers said the rats, currently housed at Andy's Pet Shop in San Jose, were seized from a man's home during filming for an episode of A&E's "Hoarders," and will be spayed or neutered and adopted in pairs, KTVU-TV, Oakland, Calif., reported Tuesday.
"We had three litters born last night, two the night before," said Andy's Pet Shop manager Zoe Thoel. "So it's been nuts. Our estimate is about 1,000 to 1,200 without the new babies being born."
The rats were removed from a Los Angeles home and trucked to San Jose in a "climate controlled" vehicle, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
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Tue, 11/16/2010 - 12:50 by Prince damin
San Jose, Calif. -- Patrick Marleau and Dany Heatley scored third-period goals Monday and the San Jose Sharks posted a 6-3 victory over Los Angeles.
Marleau's power-play goal 2:39 into the final frame with Matt Greene off on an interference call put San Jose up 4-2, but Jarret Stoll drew the Kings to within a goal again at 7:06.
San Jose iced the game 43 seconds later when Heatley scored for a 5-3 advantage.
Joe Pavelski, Ryane Clowe, Torrey Mitchell and Scott Nichol also scored and Antero Niittymaki stopped 32-of-35 shots for the Sharks, who won their third straight and fourth in five games.
Ryan Smyth and Scott Parse added goals for Los Angeles and Jonathan Bernier made 28 saves in the Kings' defeat.
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Mon, 09/06/2010 - 09:29 by Prince damin
Houston -- Brazilian star Geovanni scored the winning goal Sunday in San Jose's 2-1 Major League Soccer victory over Houston.
Geovanni, making his first MLS start since being signed as a designated player, also assisted on the Earthquakes' first score by Khari Stephenson 6 minutes into the game.
Brad Davis got the Dynamo's goal just before halftime but Geovanni regained the lead for San Jose for good in the 64th minute.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Thu, 11/05/2009 - 09:57 by shalini.bahadur
Colorado Springs -- The 2012 national skating championships will be in San Jose, Calif., U.S. Figure Skating announced Monday.
The event is scheduled for Jan. 22-29 at the HP Pavilion.
San Jose also had the nationals in 1996.
The event will be in Spokane, Wash., in 2010 and Greensboro, N.C., in 2011.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Tue, 10/27/2009 - 15:03 by shalini.bahadur
Atlanta -- Atlanta forward Ilya Kovalchuk, who broke a bone in his right foot during a weekend game, will be sidelined for four weeks, the Thrashers announced Monday.
Kovalchuk was struck in the foot by a puck Saturday during the first period of a 4-3 Atlanta loss to San Jose.
The 26-year-old player from Russia is expected to miss 12 to 14 games.
Kovalchuk has averaged 41 goals a season the past five years in the NHL. He has nine goals so far this season.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Tue, 10/20/2009 - 10:12 by shalini.bahadur
New York, Oct. 19: Devin Setoguchi scored twice during a stretch of six unanswered goals Monday and the San Jose Sharks cooled off the New York Rangers 7-2.
The Rangers had won seven straight games after a season-opening loss to Pittsburgh and opened a 2-0 lead against the Sharks.
San Jose then took over, tying the game by the end of the first period and taking a 5-2 lead after two.
Setoguchi scored back-to-back goals in the second period to run his season total to seven. Patrick Marleau also scored his seventh goal of the year by producing San Jose's last score of the game with 1:55 to play in the third.
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Sun, 10/18/2009 - 11:33 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Carson, Calif. -- Chivas USA scored the first and last goals of the game Saturday in a 2-2 tie with the San Jose Earthquakes.
Mykel Galindo opened the scoring at Home Depot Center with a goal in the seventh minute, and Justin Braun headed in the equalizer in the 68th minute for the Goats.
The draw was good enough to move Chivas USA into the lead in the MLS Western Conference by one point over Los Angeles and Houston.
The Earthquakes, who have only won loss in seven matches but are out of playoff contention, had goals from Brandon MacDonald in the 21st minute and Ryan Johnson in the 58th minute. Chris Leitch assisted on both San Jose goals.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Fri, 10/16/2009 - 13:29 by shalini.bahadur
Washington, Oct. 15: Alex Ovechkin scored twice in the span of 28 seconds of the second period Thursday, boosting Washington to a 4-1 win over San Jose.
The Capitals ended a four-game losing streak that came on the heels of two consecutive victories to open the season.
The win was tempered by the loss of goaltender Jose Theodore to an undisclosed injury. Theodore played the first period, giving up one goal on 13 shots, but was not on the ice at the start of the second. Semyon Varlamov replaced Theodore and stopped all 15 shots over the remainder of the contest.
Washington defeated San Jose for the first time in 12 tries, a stretch of games played over 10 years.
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Fri, 10/09/2009 - 11:12 by shalini.bahadur
San Jose, Calif., Oct. 9: Dany Heatley scored two of San Jose's four second-period goals Thursday and finished with a hat trick, pacing the Sharks to a 6-3 victory over Columbus.
The loss by the Blue Jackets left Calgary (4-0) and Atlanta (2-0) as the NHL's only unbeaten teams just a week into the season.
Heatley gave San Jose a 2-1 lead 5:40 into the second period and also scored with 12 seconds left in the stanza to make it 4-2. He added a shorthanded goal 7:08 into the closing period.
Heatley has four goals in four games.
Evgeni Nabokov got the win, stopping 20-of-23 shots.
Steve Mason was removed from the contest after allowing five goals on 20 shots.
Mathieu Garon faced six shots the rest of the way and gave up only Heatley's final goal.
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Thu, 10/08/2009 - 10:42 by shalini.bahadur
Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 8: Jeff Cunningham scored the winning goal in the 81st minute Wednesday to give FC Dallas its third straight victory -- 2-1 over San Jose.
Cunningham leads the league with 17 goals this season and his latest one kept alive his team's hopes for a playoff berth.
San Jose (7-13-7) was eliminated from playoff contention.
It was the fourth win in five games for Dallas (10-12-6), which took the lead in the fifth minute on a goal by David Ferreira.
San Jose tied it on Quincy Amarikwa's goal in the 73rd minute.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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