Not even Father Karras could help the Clippers
Good Evening!
Circle your calendar SD goes to BP on November 13 for the Valle Vista decider…No truth to the rumor it will be on pay-per-view.
Part of me thinks we don’t appreciate the work of San Dimas’s Tre Evans enough.
He’s one of a bunch of two-way guys Bill Zernickow has used to turn what many outsiders thought was a rebuilding year into a contending year.
The Clippers open this week and Baron Davis is already questionable with a bad foot…and number one draft pick Blake Griffin is out at least until December with a broken knee cap…
I would love to say I told you so, because I wrote about this exact thing way back in June…but then again this was such an easy call I could have made it with brail.
May be a stretch to say, but perhaps even Andy Villathedevil could have made this call as well…
Are the Clippers cursed, jinxed, possessed?
I get this image of Father Karras walking into the Clippers front office and Donald Sterling, gutterally, saying; “What an excellent day for an exorcism.”
“You’d like that?” Father Karras asks.
“Intensely,” says Sterling wheezing evil.
On this date in 1989 Arroyo’s Darren MacLellan scored six touchdowns on eight carries for 135-yards in the Knights 61-0 victory over El Monte. The Lions, who would finish the season 0-9, were held to minus five yards of total offense.
Last Add El Monte: The last time another school dropped a 60-point bomb on EMHS was in 1976 when Temple City beat the Lions 61-7 in the only meeting ever between the schools. EM finished the season 0-9.
Really Last Add El Monte: Since 1946 the only other time 60 was scored on the Lions came in 1966 when then HC Bill Samarin’s team was hit by El Rancho 60-6. They finished 2-7 on the season, ending things with a 25-7 victory over Keppel.
West Covina is only 4-4, but have you added up the overall record of the teams they’ve lost to? Bishop Amat, El Rancho, Venice, South Hills are a combined 22-6.
Westco owes its success HC Mike Maggiore, a great back in Ricky Johnson, a great defender in Maurice Dupleasis, and a quarterback named George Johnson.
The Redskins stink.
Since entering the Rio Hondo in 1982, Monrovia leads its series against South Pasadena 17-8-2. Since running off a four game win streak from 1990 to 1993, the Tigers have only beaten the Wildcats once. The SP victory came at M-Town, 29-19 thanks largely to the play of quarterback Alex Christ.
Speaking of Temple City: Twenty years ago tonight the Rams trounced Blair 41-13. What made the game interesting was Temple City faking a punt with a 27-point lead late in the fourth quarter. Then Vikings HC Gene Zeller told Rams HC Jim Walker he had nothing to say to him after the game was over. Walker said if Zeller had done some better coaching and hadn’t left a receiver uncovered his punter wouldn’t have thrown the ball.
Zeller said things in football have a way of coming back to you. A year later at North Field in the final minutes the Vikings Frank Crockom picked off a Terry Fesler pass and returned it 78-yards for the game tying score.
Funny how time and poor health can turn George Steinbrenner into a sympathetic figure.
Wasn’t he the most hated man in baseball only a few days ago?
I like the Yankees in the series, because if its not going to be the Dodgers it should be the Yankees.
And as long as its not the Angels or the Atlanta Braves of Georgia…I’m good with that.
Last Add Westco: The name we’ve been whispered to keep an eye on in the future is sophomore Chris Solomon.
For the record Blair, currently 0-7, has already suffered two winless seasons this decade.
He got banged up early against Monrovia on Friday night, but Temple City cornerback Josh Simangunsong has had a solid season.
Stay thirsty my friends…
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