Sam Rice

After months of memorization and studying, more than 40 students from around Imperial County will showcase their spelling talents at the eighth annual Regional Spelling Bee on Wednesday. This year’s event features two returning spellers; 2012...

Sports Editor Mario Renteria gets his second win of the season after winning with the Monday Night Football tiebreaker. Only Renteria and Marketing Circulation and Sales Manager Sam Rice went 4-1 but it was the MNF tiebreaker score that gave Renteria the...

William C. Collins closed off the 2012 Beat the Press regular season with a big win. He went a perfect 5-0 and beat out staffers Michael Dukes and Sam Rice and public contestant Ernie Hernandez for his third win of the season. That’s right, his...

Imperial Valley Press Sports Editor Mario Renteria went a perfect 5-0 to get the first win for the Beat the Press staff this season. Nobody else went 5-0 to battle Renteria for the win. Only Circulation Sales and Marketing Manager Sam Rice and few public...

Holtville resident Wayne Cartee used a thingamagig to calculate the Monday Night Football matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers. He ended up picking the Seahawks, 21-19 (40), much to his own dismay and it paid off. The final...

A heated competition cooked up during this year’s 2012 Taco Cook-off on Saturday evening. “Our culture, the Mexican culture has different types of tacos and I think everyone has their own way and style they prefer,” Recreation...

It’s back! The biggest, baddest, meanest, competitive, football contest in the Imperial Valley is back. This is the one where anyone can participate, where you can be enshrined in gold. The Beat the Press contest is back for another season. Five...

The annual Beat the Press football picks contest is right around the corner and the question is — are you tough enough to take us on? You’ll get that chance starting the first week of the NFL. Look in the sports section a week from today...

Dear Readers, I constantly hear laments about the loss of the paperboy. I was a paperboy as were my brother and my sisters (papergals, I guess you would say). A day does not go by that I don’t meet someone who used to deliver the paper on their...

William Collins and Raymond Rolf went 4-1 each in the first week of the Beat the Press playoffs, earning them spots in the second round. Sports Editor Mario Renteria, Sports Writer Ryan Leon and District Manager Sam Rice were all eliminated. The...

Sports Editor Mario Renteria went a perfect 5-0 to win the final regular season week of the Beat the Press competition. Now, as the NFL moves into the playoffs so does the BTP competition. Here’s how things will happen: eight will advance into the...

1986 - Boris Becker and Miloslav Mecir won quarterfinal matches in the U.S. Open tennis championship. Becker, the second seed, beat Milan Srejber 6-3, 6-2, 6-1, and Mecir stopped seventh-seeded Joakim Nystrom 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. 1991 - Albert Belle...