reporting from TULARE, Calif. — The caller was angry, urging Tulare Union High School to defy a new state law requiring it to drop “Redskins” as the mascot for its sports teams. “Gosh, he ...

Connor King, who is the man under the Prospector Pete mascot costume, pumps up the crowd at a Long Beach State men”s basketball game at Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, CA. on Thursday, January 9 ...

Emblazoned on the state flag and touted as the region’s “largest and fiercest predator,” the California grizzly bear was rumored to weigh up to 1,000 pounds and stand 8 feet tall, instilling ...

Just like bidding wars on beachfront property in San Diego, the competition for best high school mascot in California is stiff. The Golden State has about 2,000 high schools, and while a lot of ...

After a new California law banned the Redskins mascot, ... Three other high schools in the state bear the nickname, considered by many a racial slur: Calaveras High in Calaveras County; ...

Those schools must select a new team name, mascot or nickname by Jan. 1, 2017, according to the law, which was authored by state Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas. But the law does not require that ...

Four California high schools will need to find a new mascot name before Jan. 1, 2017. According to a report from Mitch Stephens of MaxPreps.com, California has become the first state to ban a high ...

Officials at California State University, Long Beach, have ended the school’s use of its mascot, Prospector Pete, over concerns that the use of a settler-era mascot for the school was racially ...

California is now the first state in the nation to prohibit public schools from using the name “Redskins” as a team name or mascot. Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, announced Sunday that he had ...

It's fire season in California, so we're offering up a lighthearted cure for the smoky blues with the best high school mascots in the state.. Over the next couple of months, SBLive/SI will be ...