2017: Tracksters Warm Up With Weather
Top performances in seven events and 79 efforts earning 2017 top 10 distinction highlighted 11 league championships last week in San Diego Section boys’ and girls’ track and field competition. Qualifiers from those meets will meet at Mt. Carmel High Saturday in Section trials. Finals are scheduled at the same site on May 27, followed […]
Read More1951-52: A Season Seven Times Significant
What made this campaign one to remember: 1) Hoover’s 11-1 ride through the City Prep League and 23-win campaign which stalled after an 11-point lead in the playoffs. 2) Point Loma’s rags-to-almost-riches season that ended with a call from Uncle Sam. 3) Helix, without a gymnasium, or a campus, not playing like a first-year team. […]
Read More2017: George (Bud) Milke, Legendary South Bay Coach
Bud Milke was on the bench as a head coach for 500-plus basketball games in his career, more than half at Mar Vista High and Castle Park, and rolled with the deathless prose of Grantland Rice: “For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks—not that you won or lost—but […]
Read More1953: “Brimming” With Success
Chula Vista High was in the midst of a legendary era in the school’s history, thanks to two gentlemen loosely described by their imaginary headwear, which bespoke of the respect they commanded and clout they carried. Joe Rindone, the sports-minded school principal and president of the CIF Southern Section executive committee, was known as the […]
Read More2017: Tri-City Jumper Takes State Lead
Matthew DeRoos of Tri-City Christian long jumped 24 feet, 4 1/4 inches in the Coastal League finals at Orange Glen and took the state lead in that event. Scripps Ranch’s Alex Barr was displaced as the state leader in the 1600-meter run. Barr ran 4:14.51 in an early outdoor meet and now is ninth inn that […]
Read More2017: Powell Leads Raptors to Playoff Win
Norman Powell has earned a spot in the Toronto Raptors’ rotation and is making his bones on basketball’s biggest stage. The 6-foot, 4-inch guard from Lincoln High scored a career-high 25 points in 34 minutes and shot 8 for 11 from the field to lead the Raptors to a 118-93 win over Milwaukee and put […]
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