Saturday night marked an impressive return to the Octagon for San Jose’s Mike “Quick” Swick at The Staples Center in Los Angeles. After a two-year break, due to injury, Swick opened the “UFC on FOX 4”s live televised broadcast in a welter-weight bout against hard hitting DaMarques “Darkness” Johnson (15-11).
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After being sidelined by a pair of losses, followed by a few unexpected injuries, San Jose-based mixed martial arts fighter Mike “Quick” Swick returns to the Octogon for a televised bout this Saturday.
There are plenty of reasons to oppose the opening of a new fast-food chain restaurant. The food is lousy. The workers aren’t paid very well. The profits leave the community. And they promote the homogenization of America’s food culture.
The U.S. Olympic team has brought some of the world’s best athletes to London, in no small part because of Californian athletes.
The spirit of vigilantism lives on with more than the recent release of “The Dark Knight Rises”. A San Jose man has been sentenced to prison for impersonating a federal agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), complete with a fake badge and an unloaded gun to serve some misguided justice and avoid paying his rent.
UPDATE: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero outpointed Selcuk Aydin on Saturday at HP Pavilion to claim the WBC interim welterweight title belt by a unanimous decision.
Four years of data detailing the locations of hundreds of thousands of drivers who have passed through San Jose resides in a server somewhere in Costa Mesa. The server belongs to Plate Scan LLC, a now-defunct company that sold License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology to police departments, including San Jose’s. While law enforcement officials call the ethnology a valuable tool to track criminals, privacy advocates and l;lawmakers are becoming concerned.
VTA is partnering with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to establish a new bike sharing program. The program, set to launch Oct. 1, will offer 1,000 rental bikes across the Bay area, with about 400 in San Jose, Mountain View and Palo Alto. Each bike will have high-tech features that include smart cards, wireless internet solar powered stations and GPS technology.
Last week, the battle lines over crowdfunding were drawn at an event held at the MIT Stanford Venture Labs (VLABs). While venture capital firms and angel investors deplore some of the fundraising methods of websites like Kickstart and IndieGoGo, President Obama’s JOBS bill could be opening the door to equal-opportunity startup companies.
San Jose has some of the worst roads in the country, and the city is finally doing something about it. Construction crews are tearing up and repaving Almaden Boulevard, Third Street, Fourth Street, 10th Street and 11th Street, which are some of the worst in the city. These roads are so choppy and busy, many bicyclists risk a ticket by riding on the sidewalk.
