2014-15: Knights Hope to Turn Over New Leaf
Foothills Christian is No. 1 in the UT-San Diego poll, but the Knights  got there wondering what if. Foothills is 8-6 and has a “woulda-coulda” lament. The Knights forfeited two early, blowout victories because of the ubiquitous and Dreaded Administrative Glitch involving player eligibility and they’ve dropped two of their last three following the loss of their star. […]
Read More2014-15: Hoops Hot in Foothills
Foothills Christian is second in UT-San Diego‘s basketball poll, but the Knights are 18th in the Cal-Hi Sports state vote, ahead of San Diego Section rankings leader La Costa Canyon. La Costa received all 11 first-place votes in the local balloting, but the Mavericks  received on-the-bubble status and are out of the top 20 in the state-wide publication’s weekly […]
Read More2014-15 Week 1: Mavericks Lead in Hoops Again
La Costa Canyon, which began and ended the 2013-14 campaign as the No. 1 team in the San Diego Section weekly poll (it fell to fifth during the season)  is again at the top of the UT-San Diego inaugural basketball voting. The Mavericks returned four starters (another reportedly tranferred to a prep school in New Hampshire) […]
Read More2014: Mickelsen, Paulk, Verlasky Made Marks
Noel Mickelsen, Charlie Paulk, and Richard Verlasky recently passed. Mickelsen, 80, had a lengthy coaching career in San Diego’s East County after posting a 71-62 record in nine seasons of professional baseball, including three years in  the AAA Pacific Coast League. The 6-foot, 6-inch Mickelsen was a star player on the 1955-56 San Diego State basketball team […]
Read More2013-14: Section Overwhelmed in state playoffs
La Jolla Country Day’s 60-42 loss to Los Altos Hills Pinewood in the State Girls’ V championship last week was the final, tumbling domino in a disappointing San Diego Section season. Mater Dei Catholic was the only boys’ team to advance beyond the first round of the Southern California Regional and got to the Division […]
Read More2014: San Diego Legends Meet
Bill Walton and Larry Blum had more in common than just being among the crowd at the University of San Francisco’s National Invitation Tournament game recently. Both are former San Diego Section basketball players of the year, Blum at Crawford in 1962-63 and Walton at Helix in 1969-70. Blum set a San Diego Section record […]
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