It's illegal to transport roosters across state lines or for foreign export for animal fighting.

It used to be more of a Southern thing. And now I'd say just about every urban area has fighting going on.

Just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

It's a little known blood sport that's been around for 25 years, mostly practiced in South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Texas and Florida.

What that tells me is that Sonoma County was much less affected than the rest of the Bay Area by the decline in the high-tech industry.

What that tells me is that Sonoma County was much less affected than the rest of the Bay Area by the decline in the high-tech industry,