Today, most area basketball fans know Yuba College as a dominant powerhouse in the junior college circuit thanks to longtime head coach Doug Cornelius.
Oakland A's executives were on-site in West Sacramento in their search for an interim ballpark their team could call home before a possible Las Vegas ballpark is built.
“He always had a tough outer shell, but when you got to know him he had a soft side that not a lot of people got to see,” said one of Walter Slipe’s granddaughters.