The regular season is over the area high school baseball and softball teams. Champions have been crowned; in several cases, it was co-champions. Pairings for the CIF-SS playoffs will be announced Monday. […]
Bat-persons head into the playoffs
Which is your favorite team? But why?
Hey, you there in the Mike Trout jersey, and you in the Clayton Kershaw jacket! Ever stop to think just why you prefer one team to another? Why do you root for […]
Please, no more commercials on chests!
One of the things which suggests the coming of the apocalypse from a sports perspective is the growing trend of placing advertising on team uniforms. It crept into the United States from […]
Great comebacks can even take years
Everybody loves a comeback, especially those who whose teams are the ones who pull off a miraculous win after “certain” defeat. Buzzer-beaters, Hail Mary’s, walk-offs, sudden-deaths … winning by a ton […]
Pujols sparks an epic rally for 10-9 win
By Pete Zarustica The Rally Monkey may be semi-retired, but his spirit goes marching on. Case in point: the Los Angeles Angels’ epic rally for seven runs in the bottom of the […]
Angels 2017: Getting closer to heaven
There’s a billboard on the Orange (57) Freeway with an image of an Angels’ baseball player and the slogan, “Prove them wrong.” What a great slogan for the 2017 edition of the […]
Football needs its own madness, too
The biggest thing in sports soon will be March Madness and “bracketology.” Very shortly most offices in the U.S.A. will be focusing not on issues of productivity or globalization but on whether […]
Of playoffs, stadiums and Willowick
It’s been a tough winter. And we don’t just mean with all the rain and wind. In winter high school sports, just four teams from the Garden Grove-Huntington Beach-Westminster area have survived […]
Brave new world of prep playoffs
Here comes the next wave of regrouping of high school sports teams in the name of “competitive equity.” That means that a six-team league – for example – might find its members […]
Football still the king of adrenaline
Over the years, the Super Bowl games have ranged from the occasional nail-biter to the more common yawner. But if this year’s playoffs are any indication, the last few games of this […]
