Edmonton qualified for playoffs for the last time in history in September 2003 when they defeated the Portland Beavers to make the post-season but were eliminated immediately by the Sacramento Rivercats 3 games to 0.

The first round of playoff game against Sacramento Rivercats saw the Rainiers winning 2 straight on the road, then coming " home " to the ball park of its parent club, the Seattle Mariners, at Safeco Field.

As it turned out, this would be the last game the team would play in Sacramento.

On July 1, Owens ' relationship with the Eagles became even more tense after Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and club president Joe Banner denied Owens permission to play basketball in a summer league under the auspices of the NBA's Sacramento Kings.

By World War II, both the Wingfoots and the Firestone Tire Company's Non Skids had suspended play, but other seminal pro teams such as the Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons ( now the Detroit Pistons ), Syracuse Nationals ( now the Philadelphia 76ers ), Rochester Royals ( now the Sacramento Kings ), Minneapolis Lakers ( now the Los Angeles Lakers ), and Tri-Cities BlackHawks ( now the Atlanta Hawks ), all of whom are currently playing in the NBA, had joined.

There had been intentions for Spokane, Portland, Seattle and Sacramento to play a West Coast circuit for 1970 under the Continental League banner, but by August 1970, teams had gone silent about the prospects of a 1970 season.

The River Cats play at Raley Field, located in West Sacramento.

Chris was a childhood friend of Sacramento Kings play by play man Grant Napear.

The current Sacramento River Cats began play in 2000.

Following a two-year void, a Sacramento man named Art Peterson bought a Class A Northwest League franchise for Seattle, named them the Rainiers and signed a deal to play in Sick's Stadium ( where the team inherited the Pilots ' old offices ).

The Sacramento Solons, a charter member of the PCL which began play in 1903, moved to Tacoma in 1904, where the team won the PCL pennant playing as the Tacoma Tigers.

San Antonio folded prior to the season but the Sacramento Gold Miners did play in the CFL for three years, starting the CFL USA initiative created in the wake of the WLAF's suspension.

Biedriņš ' slumping play and persistent foul issues convinced Smart to bench him in favor of rookie Ekpe Udoh for four games in March, until Udoh's rawness and inconsistency forced Smart to reinsert Biedriņš into the starting lineup, where he remained for five games ( including an appalling start March 16 against the Sacramento Kings where he failed to tally a single point or rebound but did get two steals and four fouls in 15 minutes of action ) until spraining his ankle on March 16, resulting in his being sidelined for the remainder of the season.

He began to play regularly in America, including many appearances at the celebrated Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, and was a regular visitor to Europe.

Anderson would play on with the Magic through the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season, after which he was traded to the Sacramento Kings.

Patterson is originally from Sacramento, California, but while visiting some family in Los Alamitos, California in between 8th and 9th grades, he decided to stay down there so that he could play football at Los Alamitos High School.

At that time the league reaffirmed it would begin play in March 1991 with ten teams, and that Birmingham would compete as a member of the North American West division with the Sacramento Surge and the San Antonio Riders.

Clark would go on to play for the Toronto Raptors, Sacramento Kings, and Utah Jazz.

When the Israeli Omri Casspi was drafted in the first round of the 2009 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings to play in the U. S., Brody called it " the completion of a circle ".

He went on to play for various NBA teams over his eight-year career, including the Suns ( 1992 – 94, 1999 – 2000 ), Detroit Pistons ( 1994 – 95 ), Toronto Raptors ( 1995 – 96 and 1997 – 98 ), Dallas Mavericks ( 1996 – 97 ) and Sacramento Kings ( 1998 – 99 ).

The PCL club moved to Sacramento in 2000, and the Canadians now play in the Short Season A Northwest League.

While based in Sacramento his radio broadcasts over 50, 000 watt KFBK were heard all over the West.

* West Sacramento ( California )

In 1891, the Native Sons of the Golden West, who sought to safeguard many of the landmarks of California's pioneer days, purchased and rehabilitated Sutter's Fort when the City of Sacramento sought to demolish it.

The duo, generally believed to be mother and calf ( Delta, the mother and Dawn, her calf ), continued to swim upstream to the deep water ship channel near West Sacramento, about inland.

California Department of General Services headquarters in West Sacramento.

The PCL has had a long tradition on the West Coast, with teams with evocative names such as the Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Angels, Mission Reds ( representing San Francisco's Mission District ), Oakland Oaks, Portland Beavers, Sacramento Solons, Salt Lake Bees, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Seals, Seattle Rainiers, Spokane Indians, Vernon Tigers ( later the Tacoma Tigers ), Vancouver Canadians, and the Hawaii Islanders.

The county is governed by a board of five district supervisors as well as the governments of its four incorporated cities: Davis, West Sacramento, Winters, and Woodland.

* West Sacramento

* alt = California State Route 84 ( northern segment ) begins at the southern West Sacramento city limits and continues south to Rio Vista along Jefferson Blvd, ending its northern segment at State Route 12 in Rio Vista.

In Yolo County, most of highway 84 is unsigned, but there are call boxes that indicate the highway number along state route 84 south of West Sacramento to the Solano County line.

In some communities, these are being re-established in cooperation with the LHA, such as West Sacramento and Davis, California.

The Sacramento River runs East of Orland and Black Butte Lake sits West.

In 1972, after negotiations between the Fire District, Sacramento County, Raley's, and the Sons and Daughters of the Golden West, the building was moved to back north of the Boulevard about 200 feet.

West Sacramento ( also known as West Sac ) is a city in Yolo County, California.

It is contiguous with Sacramento, but is separated by the Sacramento River which is also the county line, so West Sacramento is in a different county than Sacramento.

West Sacramento is part of the Sacramento – Arden Arcade – Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area which has a population ( 2000 ) of approximately 1, 796, 857.

In 1844, John Schwartz, a Flemish traveler, was the first Euro-American to permanently settle in the area of West Sacramento.

While Sacramento began to urbanize on the other side of the river, early West Sacramento found its hand at agricultural development.

The dairy industry also established roots in West Sacramento around this time.

One anecdote describes Thomas Hunt Morgan banning the Friden calculator from his department at Caltech, saying " Well, I am like a guy who is prospecting for gold along the banks of the Sacramento River in 1849.

* Extensive description and photos of AOE-1 Sacramento at Military Analysis Network ( unofficial )

" He attended graduate school at Harvard University for one year and worked at the state legislature in Sacramento.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.

On August 20, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, announced that Robinson was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak ; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico ; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

Dancing the Lindy Hop at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, Sacramento, California, USA ( 2006 )

In the 1980s, Downey was a talk show host at KFBK-AM in Sacramento, California, where he employed his abrasive style.

The Cramps, whose core members were from Sacramento by way of Akron, had debuted at CBGB in November 1976, opening for the Dead Boys.

His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls.

In 1984, Limbaugh returned to radio as a talk show host at KFBK in Sacramento, California, where he replaced Morton Downey, Jr.

In the last years of the nineteenth-and first decades of the twentieth-centuries, at the behest of local political officials and following Congressional orders, the US Army Corps began dredging the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and the deep channels of San Francisco Bay.

In 1669 – 71 the Portuguese built a fort at Colonia del Sacramento.

In 1669-71, the Portuguese built a fort at Colonia del Sacramento.

* October 24 – Lambda Sigma Gamma Sorority Inc. was founded at Sacramento State by Linda V. Fuentes and 26 Founding Mothers.

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

Collis Huntington, a hardware merchant, heard Judah's presentation about the railroad at the St. Charles Hotel in Sacramento in November 1860.

He also argues that although the companies were able to sell the land grants in the Sacramento Valley and Nebraska at " a good price ", most of the land in Wyoming, Utah and Nevada was " virtually worthless ".

( A second " Lost " Golden Spike is also on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

In November 1869 the Central Pacific finally connected Sacramento to San Francisco Bay at Oakland, California.

* Grissom Avenue at the former Mather Air Force Base, now known as Sacramento Mather Airport, Rancho Cordova, California, is one of a number of streets at the former base named after Mercury, Gemini and Apollo program astronauts.