September 2007 Archives

By the way, I love the new blog art of me but . . . I must confess to something.

I'm at home, watching out for my wife, Julie, who underwent surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff today. But that hasn't prevented me from tuning into Fox Sports Prime Ticket to check out the Los Alamitos-Orange Lutheran football game being played at Cal State Fullerton tonight.

And Orange Lutheran is very impressive indeed.

I wasn't able to blog from Veterans Stadium because of some technical difficulties with the blogging mechanism that we use for the Press-Telegram. Hey! I think that may be the first time I've ever used the word "mechanism" in the contest of sports writering/reporting/blogging!

Jordan Hamilton helped cap a nice day of play for the Dominguez High basketball program Sunday at Lynwood High,scoring 34 points as his team (called "The Hood") knocked off a San Fernando-based group of post-high school players, 88-82, in the title game of the Fullcourt Press Fall Hoops Classic.

If you want to see some pretty decent basketball action Sunday, show up at Lynwood High.

Tonight is not a good night to be Karl Dorrell. And, for the most part, the USC Trojans certainly looked the part of the best football team in the country tonight in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Sorry this wasn't posted sooner but I fell asleep at the dining room table when I got home Friday night from the Poly-Newport Harbor game.

How good is the Newport Harbor? We'll have a better idea once the Sailors start Sunset League play in a couple of weeks. But the team it lost to Friday night looked pretty good.

Poly rushed for a net of one yard last week in its upset loss at L.A. City power.

The Jackrabbits' running game - and everything else - is looking pretty sharp tonight, though, at Newport Harbor.

The 2007 version of Fullcourt Press Hoops Classic presented by Pangos (that's a mouthful of a title for an event, eh?) gets under way Saturday at Lynwood High.

I'll be there, at some points, on Saturday and Sunday. At least that's the plan.

I just saw the score (and read a brief story on what happened) of the Poly-Birmingham football game.

After looking pretty darn good in the second quarter, the Lakewood High offense was all but non-existent in the second half Friday night.

The result?

Tesoro scored on a long drive and now trails by four points going into the fourth quarter at Lakewood. Still no functioning scoreboard.

It might have been done in by five lost fumbles in Lakewood's opener last week at La Costa Canyon in Carlsbad.

But the Lancers' offense looked pretty good in the first half of its home opener Friday night against Tesoro.