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A big THANK YOU to the Santa Barbara sports community for allowing us to work with you for the past seven years. In that time, the tiny staff at Presidio Sports has worked hard to publish over 22,000 articles, successfully building a consistent daily audience and a strong brand in local sports. But the growth in revenue has not kept up and we've made the very difficult decision to end our day-to-day news service.

Santa Barbara has a long tradition of daily sports news and we’re confident this incredible community will find a way to continue to showcase and support the many accomplishments and incredible feats that inspire and enrich us through athletics.

Thanks again to all of those who have been a part of the Presidio Sports experience: the athletes, the coaches, the sponsors, the Presidio staff, the readers, and so many, many others.

Dear Santa Barbara sports fans, With a strong sense of bittersweetness, Presidio Sports will no longer be publishing daily sports news. While we’ve been able to build a consistent daily audience and a strong brand in local sports, the growth in revenue has not kept up. The good news is that there is an effort being made to fully…

CIF Championship match here they come!! Laguna Blanca's girls volleyball team beat Archer in Tuesday's CIF semifinal match, reserving a spot for the Owls in this weekend's CIF Division 4AA championship. Laguna Blanca, Cate 8-Man football, Bishop Diego football, and cross country teams from Dos Pueblos, San Marcos and Cate are the only high school teams still alive from the fall sports season

Owls achieve their goal, advance to CIF Final It was the fifth set in the match to determine who goes to the CIF volleyball final. So how did the Laguna Blanca girls volleyball team handle the pressure? With ease. The fourth-seeded Owls scored…

Bishop Diego posted an impressive 53-47 CIF victory over Newbury Park on Friday night. The Cardinals amassed 521 rushing yards, 269 of them from Mike Soracco alone, to win the Northern Division playoff game. Bishop Diego gets another home game in the second round, hosting No. 4 seed Palmdale next Friday at SBCC's La Playa Stadium

Beast-mode Cardinals beat Newbury Park, 53-47 It’s called “Beast Mode.” Bishop Diego’s football team put its form of “Beast Mode” on display Friday night and took down Newbury Park, 53-47, in a CIF Northern …

Santa Barbara Half-Marathon weekend has arrived. Get ready for tomorrow's big race with these interesting tidbits about the 13.1-mile course that starts at UC Santa Barbara and finishes at Leadbetter Beach Park. Almost 3,000 runners are expected!!

10 Things to Know about Santa Barbara’s Veterans Day Half-Marathon The Santa Barbara Veterans Day Half-Marathon is the main event in 2015 as the full-length marathon was canceled in mid-October. There will still be thousands running on Saturday, November 7,…