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With 110,000 participants, the Bay to Breakers race held on May 18, 1986, in San Francisco, California was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest footrace. [2] On October 10, 2010, 116,086 out of 160,000 registered runners in Manila were reported to have finished a run entitled "10.10.10 A Run for the Pasig ...
The Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) is a biennial offshore yacht race held in odd-numbered years starting off the Pt. Fermin buoy in San Pedro, California and ending off Diamond Head in Hawaii, a distance of around 2,225 nautical miles (2,560 mi; 4,121 km). In even-numbered years the Pacific Cup race starts out of San Francisco and is run by ...
The University of California, Santa Barbara ( UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. [ 11] Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers' college, UCSB joined the ancestor of the California State University system in 1909 and then moved over to the ...
The largest metro areas in California, as of 2010, are Los Angeles, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, San Diego, Riverside-San Bernardino, and Sacramento. [12] From 2006 until 2016, the state lost a net population of about 1 million people from emigration to other states, [ 13 ] yet the population of the state continued to grow due to immigration ...
The 2022–23 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's basketball team represented the University of California, Santa Barbara in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Gauchos, led by sixth-year head coach Joe Pasternack , played their home games at The Thunderdome in Santa Barbara, California as members of the Big West Conference .
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California.Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic centers abroad. [5]
The Chicago Shamrock Shuffle is an 8 kilometer road race held in Chicago which was started in 1980. The race is held during celebrations of Saint Patrick's Day in the Chicago area. History. For the first couple of decades, the number of participants and competitiveness of the field grew each year.
The 2023–24 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos women's basketball team represents the University of California, Santa Barbara during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Gauchos, led by ninth-year head coach Bonnie Henrickson , play their home games at The Thunderdome in Santa Barbara, California as members of the Big West ...