2016: 13 Players From Here on NFL Rosters
Editor’s Note:  A couple sharp-eyed readers, Gregg Durrant and Justin Schaeffer, noticed a couple whiffs as soon as this article appeared.  I listed Tony Jefferson as a wide receiver when he is a safety and  overlooked kicker Jason Myers of Jacksonville. I should have caught the error that cited Myers as a Mater Dei/Santa Ana graduate […]
Read More2016 Week 5: Saints and Dons Have Each Other in Sights
St. Augustine and Cathedral  are on a collision course and, unless Madison gums up their plans, will meet for the Western League championship at Mesa College in  Week 9, the winner being the favorite for the top seed in the San Diego Section Open Division playoffs. Cathedral showed resolve last week, overcoming Helix leads of 21-0 […]
Read More2016 Week 4: Saints Win After 88 Years
Not the most significant achievement in school history, but St. Augustine celebrated. The Saints won at Los Angeles Loyola, 17-14, last week, defeating the Cubs for the first time since Prohibition. Okay, so it was only the eighth time the teams had faced each other in the 88 years and 89 seasons since 1928. But the victory was the San […]
Read More2011: Let There Be Light
At 3:38 p.m. on Thursday, September 8, 2011, all of San Diego County and communities north to San Clemente, south to northern Mexico, and east into Arizona suddenly were without power. Something had gone awry at a connecting station in the western Arizona desert. A total of 1.4 million customers across the region were without […]
Read More2016: Dick Coxe, 95, Coached Many Champions
There was not a track and field event in which Dick Coxe did not have expertise, but he probably preferred the grueling discipline of cross country. Friends and former athletes will honor Coxe with their recollections of the demanding, straight-shooting and compassionate mentor in a celebration of his life on Sept. 18 from 1-4 p.m. […]
Read More2016 Week 3: Are Wildcats on Way Back?
El Camino was 58-81 through 2015 after Herb Meyer took his 339 career victories and walked into the coaching sunset in 2001. Jerry Ralph is the Oceanside school’s fourth coach since Meyer stepped down and may have the Warriors positioned to end a run of mediocrity. El Camino has had 4 winning seasons following Meyer, […]
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