2024 Football Week 3: Hauser And Grizzlies Enter Elite Circle
Take a bow, Chris Hauser, and a doffing of the fedora to the Mission Hills coach, the 11th in San Diego County history to win at least 200 games. Hauser (200-87-2) last week coached the Grizzlies to a 28-14 victory over Oceanside 21 seasons after his first, 26-6 over Vista Murietta in 2004. That win […]
Read More2024 Football Week 2: A Rare Win Over the Jackrabbits
Long Beach Poly, since losing, 11-0, to San Diego High in 1910, has pretty much had its way with teams from San Diego. Lincoln’s 42-14 victory last week at Long Beach Veterans’ Memorial Stadium, was infrequent. Poly leads the series, 40-15-1. This once was a premier rivalry in Southern California, with the Jackrabbits and San […]
Read More2024 Football Week 1: Patriots Turn Table on 77
Patrick Henry opened the season with a 77-48 victory over Grossmont and broke the school record, set in a 69-14 win over Coronado in 2021. The outburst also more or less squared the record of a previous Patriots encounter. They were on the opposite end of a 77-point explosion by The Bishop’s seven years ago […]
Read More2024: Nick Barkett, Original San Diego Section basketball player of year
Nick Barkett was determined to improve his lot in the Hoover basketball program after serving as the fifth of five guards on the 26-2 team of the 1959-60 Cardinals. “He lived at Muni Gym all Summer with (John) Bocko,” remembered Cardinals coach Charlie Hampton. Barkett and Bocko spent many days, and evenings, in the vintage […]
Read More2024: Eddie Olsen, 89, Baseball Lifer
The hand shake was a vise grip. I first shook that hand in September, 1964, when Eddie Olsen was hired to manage the Billiard Den, a trendy, new watering hole and pool parlor at 58th Street and El Cajon Blvd. I last saw Eddie months before he passed recently at age 89 and the handshake […]
Read More2024 Football Week 0: Let the Games Begin
The San Diego Section’s 65th season opens this week with the usual fare of nonleague games, intersectionals, and interstates. Five interesting matchups: CARLSBAD @LAKEWOOD. Lancers coach Thadd MacNeal will return to where he had a very successful program in the Long Beach Poly-dominated, Southern Section Moore League, posting a 41-19 record from 2006-10, including 21-4 […]
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