Cal Lutheran University will memorialize Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson Tuesday night at the Lundring Center on the school's Thousand Oaks campus.

The former Thousand Oaks resident, who became the first manager to win a World Series with both a National League and American League team by skippering the Cincinnati Reds (1975, 1976) and Detroit Tigers (1984) to glory, died locally in Nov. 2010.

Hosted by CLU president Chris Kimball, the event will be headlined by Alan Trammell, the World Series MVP from Anderson's 1984 Detroit team, and Angels manager Mike Scioscia

The event will include a reception with ballpark cuisine and a question-and-answer period, will begin at 6:30 p.m.

A limited number of seats are still available. Tickets are $40 and will benefit Anderson's charities of choice, CATCH and the CLU baseball program. Call 805-493-3100 or email nreynard@callutheran.edu for more information.

As the men's basketball representative to the CCCAA management council, Moorpark College athletic director Howard Davis is helping to organize a joint cancer awareness effort by the men's and women's basketball coaches' associations.

The goal is to present a check for $50,000 to the American Cancer Society during the state Final Four at Ventura College in March.

Forty schools, including all seven in the WSC North, have already pledged to join the effort, which is being mirrored on the "Coaches vs. Cancer" and "Pink Zone" efforts on the NCAA level.

Some programs will pledge their gate, others will organize an anti-cancer themed event similar to those hosted recently by the Ventura College women's basketball and women's soccer and Moorpark College women's volleyball teams.

The Moorpark College women's volleyball team will host its annual "Dig Pink" night to raise funds and awareness for National Breast Cancer Month Tuesday at 7 p.m., when the WSC North co-leaders will host Hancock at Raider Pavilion.

The Raiders starting lineup includes libero Erika Smith, a sophomore from Newbury Park who overcame childhood leukemia.

The team's special "Dig Pink" t-shirts will be on sale. Funds raised will benefit the Sideout Foundation, originators of the national campaign.

Every goal scored during the month of October will have even more meaning for the Ventura College women's soccer team.

The Pirates are collecting pledges for every goal they score during their "Score for the Cure" breast cancer drive. Local high schools, including Buena, Ventura, Pacifica, Camarillo, Rio Mesa and St. Bonaventure High, are also participating in the program.

Ventura is also selling t-shirts with their "Score for the Cure" logo.

The month-long drive will culminate with the Nov. 2 home match against Oxnard College, when the Pirates will auction off their special pink jerseys. Other auction items will include shirts of international stars like Thierry Henry and Rafael Marquez.

All proceeds will go to the Community Memorial Hospital cancer center.

After the success of last month's garage sale, the Ventura College athletic department will do it again Saturday during the football team's game against Chaffey.

Old uniforms, as well as new merchandise like athletic t-shirts and shorts, will be available from 5 p.m. until halftime.

Attention retro enthusiasts. The Ventura College athletic department
will sell old uniforms and practice gear from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. today
on the patio adjacent to the VC Sportsplex.

Items from nearly every VC program are available from 1980s to
present, including basketball uniforms and warmups going back to the
Phil Mathews era, football uniforms going back to the Phil Passno era
and baseball uniforms going back to the Gary Anglin era.

"We've never been given this chance before," said Ventura equipment
manager Peder Nielsen. "There's some really nice stuff... It's all
been in storage."

The garage sale will continue into the football scrimmage this evening.