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Durng the first quarter Tuesday night, when he was on fire and fired up, Kobe Bryant yelled “Not tonight!,” at some fans sitting courtside.
Yeah. Good one. Really smart.
If he had meant, “We’re not capable of playing world championship-caliber basketball tonight,” Bryant would have been correct.
Oh, it pains me to write this. Besides being the better [...]
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Sportswriters don’t write thank-you blogs very often.
This one has this time, though, and it’s directed to the youngsters who work in the press box at the yearly CIF Southern Section Track and Field Finals.
Their task is daunting. They pass out results sheets, then Masters Meet seeding sheets, to every writer in the press box.
That’s 64 [...]
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Sheesh, the Santa Maria Valley Packers are still two weeks away from their inaugural game, and they’re already getting some national exposure.
If you missed it (and I can’t blame you if you did), the NHRA’s rain-soaked Thunder Valley Nationals wrapped up action on Sunday night in Bristol, Tenn. During Sunday’s oft-delayed eliminations, four-time defending Top [...]
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Darn it, the Miami Dolphins went and took all the fun out of this weekend.
With the firm knowledge that the NFL is now first, second, third and (oddly enough) sixth on most sports fan’s list of favorite leagues, the NFL Draft has always served as that mid-spring anchor for football junkies (and, more to the [...]
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She was Lompoc High School’s lone representative at the Arcadia Invitational, a nationally-renowned high school track and field meet, on April 12.
But what a lone representative!
Senior Chelsea Cassulo uncorked a shot put of 42-8 1/2, her personall best by a long, well, shot. That placed her third in the women’s invitational division, the toughest division [...]
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After Bill Self coached Kansas to the 2008 NCAA Division I basketball championship, it figured that at least one other school would try to woo him away.
Word had it that that school would be Self’s alma mater, Oklahoma State, with a staggering bonus package, in the $10, 000,000 range, I believe.
Self said no thanks, he’s [...]
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In the spring, it has been said, a young man’s fancy turns to baseball.
These particular young men have turned their attention to opposing batters, with good results.
According to MaxPreps.com statistics posted Thursday, Nipomo’s Andy Bachtel had racked up 38 strikeouts in 27 innings pitched. He was 3-0. His ERA was 1.82. Teammate Mason Sperkaos had [...]
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Should the size of the soccer field be reduced?
That’s the question we asked in this week’s “Sez You”.
A smaller field may produce higher scores and increase the game’s popularity in the United States.
The Majority of us here at your Lee Central Coast Newspapers Sports Department said to leave the game alone.
Dan Watson likes the smaller [...]
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The memo was sent out awhile ago, as umpire Ed Montague pointed out.
Apparently, Los Angeles Dodgers third base coach Larry Bowa didn’t care.
He was bound and determined to leave the confines of the third base coaching box Tuesday night, despite Montague’s repeated warnings to him to get back in there.
So Montague ran him out of [...]
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Okay, so Dodger third base coach Larry Bowa was kicked out of the baseball game on Tuesday, April 1 for arguing with third base umpire Ed Montague.
The argument stemmed from a warning by Montague for Bowa to get into the coaching box. Bowa continued to do what coaches have done for ever. Stand [...]
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“He can control everyone except himself.”
That is what one women’s college basketball coach said to me about Bob Knight, who abruptly resigned from Texas Tech Monday during his 42nd season of coaching college basketball.
The coach made his observation about Knight during part of the winningest men’s college basketball coach’s heyday at Indiana, during the 1980s.
I [...]
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OK, before you think that the title of this blog post is foretelling a calamity … well, that’s where you’re right.
Just to give our readers a heads-up, we at the Times had a bit of a wild night on Friday night, and the print edition was the victim in the end.
At approximately 7:25 p.m. [...]
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One way or another, Tuesday night was to be the end of Josh Warthen’s run on the Golf Channel’s reality series “The Big Break: Mesquite,” but winning the title and earning a PGA Tour event berth just weren’t in the cards.
After weeks of action (at least of broadcast time), the Pismo Beach native squared off [...]
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This is being written in the early hours of Thursday, December 13th, hours before former US senator George Mitchell will release the report generated from 20 months of investigation into the use of steroids and human-growth hormones in Major League Baseball.
From all reports, this one could be big, with major names — the likes of [...]
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After weeks of games and gimmicks, Tuesday’s 11th edition of “The Big Break: Mesquite” was simple, concise and cut-throat: Three men enter, two men advance to the final, odd man out. And for Pismo Beach’s Josh Warthen, nine holes wasn’t enough to draw out the drama, en route to the finals and a possible berth [...]
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I’ve wondered before. I’m still wondering.
Did Michael Vick think about the dogs?
I never heard of, or read about, Vick mentioning the dogs when he was arraigned on charges concerning his involvement in a dog fighting ring.
At his sentencing Monday, as far as I could tell, still no mention of the dogs.
Someone was quoted as saying, [...]
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Tuesday’s episode of the Golf Channel’s “The Big Break: Mesquite” was moving day, with a new car on the line and a berth in the finals at stake.
The remaining four players — point leader Hiroshi Matsuo, Brian Kontak, Gerry James and Pismo Beach native Josh Warthen — played in the final points-scoring challenges on the [...]
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Keep Karl Dorrell.
Yes, UCLA’s football team, with 20 returning starters, figured it would finish something other than the 6-6 record it sported this year
Sure, USC (it pains me to write this) beat the Bruins soundly, 24-7, Saturday.
USC’s personnel is on a par with anyone’s, though, when the Trojans are healthy. The Trojans were, finally, healthy [...]
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So now what?
Ohio State vs. LSU for the national championship? Georgia? Kansas?
Whoever plays for the national title this year will not have played their way into the BCS championship game. They will have made it because they had less distance to back in than other folks did.
When West Virginia (four-touchdown favorite against Pittsburgh) and Missouri [...]
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The “Eliminator” is gone, but Pismo Beach’s Josh Warthen is still alive, and making loads of noise in the Golf Channel’s contestant reality show “The Big Break: Mesquite.”
The November 27th episode saw the five golfers left — Warthen, point leader Hiroshi Matsuo, Arizona’s Brian Kontak, ex-professional wrestler Gerry James and Kevin “The Eliminator” Taylor — [...]
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