2016 Week 10: Rivals Face Moments of Truth
Take a good look at this week’s Union-Tribune Top 10 poll. It won’t be the same next Tuesday and likely will change even more after the last of several blockbuster matchups take place 10 days from now on the final Friday of the regular season. THIS WEEK No. 1 Cathedral (8-0) meets Western League rival No. 6 […]
Read More2016 Week 9: Season of Undefeateds and Winless
Six teams are 7-0 (Calvin Christian is 6-0) and the trend figures to continue as San Diego Section clubs head into the stretch run of the regular season. The Bishop’s (7-0) visits La Jolla Country Day (6-1) in the feature game involving one of of the unbeatens. The Knights, who have bigger things in mind, can salt away away […]
Read More1914: On The World Stage
It’s not a stretch to declare that this was the year San Diego, the growing city at the geographical bottom of California, stepped into the modern age. The vision and determination of San Diego’s civic leaders launched the successful Panama-California Exposition on Jan. 1, 1915, even though in competition with the larger, federally-funded expo in […]
Read More2016: Pete Jernigan, Played Baseball, Coached Softball
Paul Douglas (Pete) Jernigan, one of the San Diego area’s most accomplished athletes and coaches, passed away recently at his home in Hereford, Arizona. Jernigan, 75, played 10 seasons of professional baseball and later coached successful high school and Under 18 softball teams. He was named “Mr. Youth Sports” by the El Cajon Parks and […]
Read More2016 Week 8: The ‘Hills is Alive With Sound of Undefeated Squads
Theirs is not as old a rivalry or as traditional as Grossmont-Helix, but Grossmont-Valhalla will come close this week when the undefeated East County powers roll in the dirt in a Grossmont Hills League game. The winner probably will determine who challenges Helix for the championship. Valhalla’s 6-0 record represents its best start since racing to 7-0 in 2005. […]
Read More1891-1913: Football Finds the Pacific Coast
It had been almost 25 years since Rutgers University and Princeton played in the first American football game in 1867. A generation later the gridiron sport, more like Australia’s rugby, had made its way West. To an expanse near the San Diego Bay. Students from the Russ High School met adults from the “San Diego […]
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