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GOBULLDOGS.COM - After 27 years as the Fresno State softball head coach, Margie Wright has announced her retirement effective June 30, 2012. Wright, who is the NCAA Division I all-time winningest softball coach and is ranked second all-time in NCAA Division I history for victories regardless of sport, steps down after guiding the university to its first NCAA Division I team title (1998) and directing the softball program to unparalleled heights.

Under her direction the Bulldogs have appeared in every NCAA Tournament championship, while becoming the second all-time winningest softball program in Division I history.

DeRuyter Becomes the 17th Head Coach to Lead the Fresno State Football Program
GoBulldogs.com - Fresno State Director of Athletics Thomas Boeh has announced the appointment of Tim DeRuyter, Interim Head Coach at Texas A&M, as the 17th head coach of the Bulldog football program.

DeRuyter (pronounced da-ROOT-er) will begin recruiting for Fresno State immediately before the NCAA-mandated "quiet period," which begins Dec. 19. He will begin his full-time coaching with the Bulldogs immediately following the Aggies' game versus Northwestern at the Meineke Car Care Bowl on Dec. 31. He has spent the past two seasons as an assistant head coach/defensive coordinator at Texas A&M.

Fresno State - Anyone, anywhere, anytime, just no longer at Fresno State for Coach Pat Hill. The man who put Bulldog football on the National map was fired Sunday by the school’s administration following a losing 4-9 season, the worse in Fresno State history. Monday Hill met with the media for a 15 minute emotional talk on his fifteen year tenure as Fresno State’s head football coach.

Hill took his seat at the podium in a green shirt and black jacket. The only red was in Hill’s eyes and a couple wounds on his right hand. He told the media he would not answer any questions or give any interviews. He has always answered the media’s questions but for today's press conference, when he was done he was done.

GoBulldogs.com - Fresno State Director of Athletics Thomas Boeh announced Sunday that Pat Hill will not be retained as the school's head football coach. Coach Hill and the team were informed of the decision Sunday afternoon.

"Following a thorough evaluation of the team's on-field performance over the past several years, it has been determined that the program would be best served with a change in leadership. I truly respect and appreciate Coach Hill's commitment, hard work, accomplishments and positive elements that he brought to Fresno State Football over the past 15 years," Boeh said.

Fresno – Former major league baseball star Gus Zernial died Thursday afternoon at the age of 87. In the 50’s he was a force at the plate in the American League winning the Triple Crown and smacking 237 dingers in his 11 year career. In the 70’s he was the sportscaster for KFSN Channel 30 in Fresno, then in retirement became a longtime ambassador for the Fresno Grizzlies, the Triple A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.  

MADERA - Investors were shocked to learn of the criminal past of head of the Yosemite Motor Speedway. Madera Online has uncovered forty-five pages of documents that show that the chairman of the racetrack's board of directors faced seventeen counts of fraud, two counts of racketeering and two attempted 3rd degree felonies in New Mexico less than ten years ago.

After a mistrial and a hung jury, Jerry Lowrie agreed to a plea-bargain deal in which he plead guilty to two counts of fraud. Both counts came with an 18-month prison sentence which was to be served consecutively and one year of state parole.