2018 Week 9: Weather Creates Havoc
Friday Night Lights turned into Friday Night Lightning. Games were shortened, postponed, or called because of torrential rain and bolts from the sky. The score at the time of mass evacuations from the field and stands stood as final for many of the games. Some, as in the Avocado League, were declared “no contest” and […]
Read More2018: Week 8: Patriots (7-0) Meet Dons (6-1)
“A Good Big Man Will Always Beat a Good Little Man” Sounds like an observation from that noted philosopher Aristotle. The above doesn’t mean that Cathedral will beat Christian in a battle of Division 1 and D-3 powers, but the adage will be tested when these two teams meet for the first time Friday night […]
Read More2018 Week 7: Five at 6-0 Share Room at the Top
Christian, El Centro Central, Francis Parker, Kearny, and Torrey Pines continue to set the pace, each with a 6-0 record. Seven teams, Valhalla, Patrick Henry, Ocean View, El Cajon Valley, Hoover, Mabel O’Farrell, and Clairemont, are setting a reverse pace, each without a win. La Costa Canyon, which I had voted as the top team […]
Read More2018 Week 6: Now the Real Racing Begins
Forty-five teams begin league play this week. Twenty-three more will commence next week, and 22 already have started down that road as the season reaches Week 7 and the final month of the regular season. It seems that every team in the San Diego Section will make the playoffs. Although that is not the case […]
Read More2018 Week 5: Helix, La Costa Canyon Lead With 3 NFL Players Each
Of the 1,694 players on active NFL rosters on Kickoff Weekend earlier this month, 18 were from San Diego Section schools, six more than in 2017. (There is an error in the table below. Alex Mack did attend San Marcos High, in Santa Barbara, not at our local San Marcos). Helix and La Costa Canyon […]
Read More2018 Week 4: Not the NFL, But Rams, Eagles Just as Intense
Call it the Battle of Banner Grade, because a chunk of the 32-mile trip from Julian to Borrego Springs on California 78 traverses the circuitous path of the vintage East County road, past the 19th Century gold-mining community of Banner, until the final stretch of the approximately 50-minute drive turns to County Road S2. Julian […]
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