- 1977: Death Threats for Marcus Allen
The messages were not the garden variety “good luck this week,” or “see you at the game.”
“I got several phone calls threatening my life,” Marcus Allen told writer Steve Brand. “The callers said I better not be at the game. They didn’t say what they’d do. They just said not to be there. It was ...
- 1977: Old Friend in Trouble
Balboa Stadium’s days were numbered.
When construction was completed in 1915, the concrete horseshoe seating more than 23,000 was the largest municipally-owned stadium in the world, according to Don King, author of “Caver Conquest.”
The 1933 magnitude 6.3 earthquake that destroyed 230 school buildings in Southern California, including many at Long Beach Poly, resulted in the Field ...
- 2015: Valley Center’s Gilster Nears Second Century
Rob Gilster of Valley Center moved from 11th to 9th place among all-time winning coaches in San Diego County in 2015 and needs three victories next year to gain admittance to the 200 Club.
The Jaguars’ 8-4 season gave Gilster a 27-season record of 197-121-5 for a .618 winning percentage. He was head coach at Orange Glen for nine seasons ...
- 2015 Week 17, Saints No. 1 in D-II, Helix 7th in D-I
It’s essentially not who you beat, but who you played and how who you played did.
St. Augustine lost three games but was 20th in the state and No. 1 in Division II in Cal-Hi Sports‘ final 2015 rankings.
Cathedral lost five but its schedule was so difficult that the Dons earned a Cal-Hi ranking of sixth in Division ...
- 2015-16 Week 3: Holiday Tournaments Continue
New Year’s and league play await, but holiday action continues, most notably with the Under-Armour event hosted by coach John Olive and the Torrey Pines Falcons.
Play begins Saturday with seven of the Union-Tribune Top 10 clubs competing. Foothills Christian, St. Augustine, and Army-Navy are in the elite National Division.
Foothills, No. 1 in the latest Union-Tribune poll, plays Oakland Bishop O’Dowd, and ...
- 2015-16 Week 1: Foothills Christian Meets Texas Team
No. 1 Foothills Christian is scheduled to play Cypress Lakes of Katy, Texas, in the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear, Arizona, Friday. The game is to be televised on ESPN 2 at 3:30 p.m., according to Max Preps.
Other teams in the upper half of the Union-Tribune Top 10 will be in tournament play beginning Thursday.
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- 2015: 3 Area Teams To Host State Finals
San Diego Section teams posted a 4-2 record in the Southern California playoffs (a.k.a. State Bowl Championship Series) last week, the games hewing to a historic trend of strength in the lower divisions.
Local teams will be favored in at least three of the state championship games this week, with all kickoffs Saturday night at 6.
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- 1976: Birt’s Legacy Intact as Herb’s Continues to Build
Like ships passing in the night, Birt Slater and Herb Meyer were headed in the opposite direction, but their coaching paths were virtually identical.
Slater confirmed his retirement as head coach at Kearny following the Komets’ 39-28 loss in the San Diego Section championship game to Meyer’s first year, front-loaded El Camino squad at San Diego Stadium.
Each ...
- 2015 Week 16: Helix Sweeps Final Football Poll
After losing their first game, 23-19, to Scottsdale Chaparral, the Helix Highlanders fell from their first-place position in the Union-Tribune‘s opening football poll but unanimously regained the top spot in the final week of the poll following their 44-30 win against St. Augustine in the San Diego Section Open Division championship game.
The Saints finished second and Mission Hills, the ...
- 2015-16 Week 0: Foothills No. 1 In Poll
Foothills Christian, No. 1 in the first Union-Tribune basketball poll, was 4-0 before being savaged by a piranha-like attack from the Chino Hills Huskies in finals of the Battle Zone Tournament at Corona Centennial Saturday night.
Final score, 106-86.
Foothills’ T.J. Leaf scored 44 points and was 21 for 27 from the field, but the Knights were swamped at ...
- 2015 Week 16: Six Go For Southern California Titles
Helix defeated St. Augustine, 44-30, in a terrific Open Division championship game before a standing-room crowd of at least 10,000 persons at Southwestern College and six San Diego teams qualified for Southern California championship play.
It’s a brave new world in the state CIF.
Teams will compete in 13 divisions Dec. 11-12 and 50 teams will be playing ...
- 2015: Little League Legend Joe Schloss, 88
Joe Schloss, who operated a North Park sporting goods business for 69 years and coached the same Little League team for 59 seasons, passed away at age 88.
Schloss, a 1944 graduate of San Diego High, coached a legion of youngsters for the North Park Little League and both of his sons spent many years in sports.
“Joe instilled ...
- 2015: Saints’ Victory Felt in Statewide Poll
St. Augustine’s rout of Mission Hills in the San Diego Section semifinals created a seismic response in the state top 25 rankings as selected by Cal-Hi Sports.
The Saints jumped from On-The-Bubble status to 21st in this week’s poll and Helix, their Open Division championship-game opponent Saturday at 7 p.m. at Southwestern College, vaulted from No. 11 to ...
- 2015 Week 15: Coronado Scores in D-V
Thanks to the numerous opportunities for playoff participation, Coronado, a third-place finisher in the Central League, is celebrating its third San Diego Section championship today.
The Islanders topped Crawford of the Manzanita League, 21-7, at Southwestern College last night for the Division V title, their first since coach Dave Tupec’s team won back-to-back championships as members of ...
- 2015 Week 15: Down Goes Mission Hills
You could hear the gasps of shock from the North County denizens who worship at the shrine of the Mission Hills Grizzlies.
St. Augustine ran away from coach Tim Hauser’s team, 48-14, as Elijah Preston rushed for 236 yards and three touchdowns before a crowd of about 6,000 at Mesa College in the San Diego Section ...
- 2018: Week 13: Basketball Playoffs Week 2
Idleness breeds contempt or a drop in the ratings.
Mission Hills has fallen from ninth to 11th in Cal-Hi Sports’ state top 25, partly because the Grizzlies drew a bye in the first round of the San Diego Section playoffs last week.
Also byed last week, Helix remained 12th. Cathedral and St. Augustine are on the bubble after they, ...
- 1947: The Crowds, They Kept Coming
Hoover principal Floyd Johnson was going to hold the line.
His school was the technical host for the annual game with San Diego High in Balboa Stadium and after the throngs of recent years Johnson vowed to close sales “when the 27,000th ticket is sold.”
Johnson said that he did not want to revisit the “turmoil” attendant ...
- 1947: Hilltoppers Come Oh, So Close!
Although about two-touchdown underdogs, coach Bill Bailey’s San Diego Hilltoppers took a 12-0 lead into the fourth quarter of the Southern California championship game.
It would not be enough. The Hillers sustained a third consecutive loss in the finals, following defeats of the 1925 and 1933 clubs.
Favored Santa Monica rallied for a 13-12 victory before 26,601 ...
- 2015: Week 12, Grizzlies are No. 1 and No. 3
Undefeated Mission Hills was an almost wire-to-wire, regular-season winner in the Union-Tribune writers’ poll, but the Grizzlies are seeded only third behind Helix and St. Augustine in the Open Division of the San Diego Section playoffs, which begin this week.
Power ratings, introduced three years ago, base a team’s strength on a number of factors, most visible ...
- 2015: Champions of 19 Leagues, Take a Bow!
The regular season is finished, playoffs are about to begin, and who claimed league championships?
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