Discuss anything and everything you want ….

…So, who’s surprised there are no area teams in the basketball championships this weekend? I was already planning my trip to Sacramento thinking the Pasadena boys and Muir girls would be my ticket to Arco Arena….

…I was very very impressed at how the Monrovia girls basketball team played with cohesion from start to end in its 79-68 loss to Foothill in Saturday’s semifinals of the CIF-SS Division III-A playoffs. Maryum Jenkins played stellar, and what more can you say about Gina Henderson? 38 points for anybody is amazing…

….My baseball top 10 rankings are still not done. Off the top of my head I have 1. Arcadia; 2. St. Francis; 3. Maranatha; 4. La Canada … From that point on I’m not so sure. It’s looking like my baseball preview will run Wednesday….

….Monrovia will have a new football stadium after next season. But I’m excited the Wildcats will finally get a new gym, which should be completed in 2011, I think. Who came away impressed from Segerstrom High’s beautiful gym?….

…Later this week, I will rank my best 10 favorite basketball players, both boys and girls. It’s OK if you want to start with your list…..

…..It was a list of who’s-who at Maranatha’s girls soccer playoff game Thursday. I ran into Flintridge Sacred Heart coach Frank Pace, Alverno’s Steve and Marina LESSE, Arcadia’s Todd Golper who was ‘reppin with his UCLA hat; Maranatha QB Matt Schilz, who by the way was wearing a K-State hoodie (Yea, I gave him a hard time about that, too), Maranatha pitcher Dylan Covey was there, and from what I hear so was Arcadia’s Bryce Rutherford…..