Archive for June, 2010
Yonan Helps Starz Earn Title
The Chico Starz 18 and under softball team captured the Nor Cal Championship over the weekend for it’s first title in program history!
Lassen High standout, Natalie Yonan was 3-12 over the event and played outstanding defense at second base as the Starz went 4-0 over the weekend.
The victory earns the Starz a return trip to the 18 and under Nationals to be held August 1-8 in Hemet, California.
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Posted: June 21st, 2010 under LHS Softball.
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The Last Mohican
Submitted by BB
I’m getting old.
How can I tell? Because the upcoming shake up in college football has me disturbed and almost irate. Disappointed and disillusioned. Rather like I predicted in an earlier article about the future of college football.
While it’s good to know that my prognostic abilities are sound, I was really hoping I would be wrong this once.
But I’m not here to write about the realignment of division I football just yet. I find it distasteful to know that what is happening in the world of college football –big money chasing bigger money, with everyone scrambling not to be left behind–is so contrary to what a great man who recently passed from this world stood for. My father referred to him as the Last Mohican, and there is some truth to the sentiment.
I know I’m old because I remember John Wooden, that last Mohican he was referring to, and know of his fundamental teachings on the basketball court as well as on the court of life. My participation in sport was heavily laced with his belief that integrity, effort, and how one played the game truly mattered. On the court the team came first and he expected 100 percent … Click the headline to continue reading this LSN Story
Posted: June 12th, 2010 under BB's Take.
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Days Of Summer
Submitted by BB
Baseball is not my favorite sport. I liken it to watching grass grow; not terribly exciting. Playing it was fun, but as a spectator I was more enthralled with the Coney Island hot dogs and Cherry Cokes from the concession stand.
Having said that, though, there have been some thrilling events so far in the 2010 season. Three–yes, three–perfect games in one month. Whether the most recent no-hitter gets into the record books is irrelevant; we all know it happened.
The first one, thrown by Oakland A’s pitcher Dallas Braden was followed by his grandmother, who was in the stands, gleefully telling Alex Rodriguez to “stick it”. Her grandson had taken exception to A-Rod returning to first base via the pitcher’s mound in an earlier game–one of those unspoken no-no’s in baseball. After Dallas let him know his feelings on the subject, A-Rod responded with some less than courteous comments.
Dallas’s grandma was just letting him know he needed to show her boy some respect. Hearing about her defiant message to the Yankee slugger, I smiled as I remembered my own grandmother. We called her Mamaw, and she was a rabid Oakland A’s fan.
I spent many happy summer days with her, the … Click the headline to continue reading this LSN Story
Posted: June 3rd, 2010 under BB's Take.
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