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I get this feeling, after UCLA calls a timeout near the end of its eventual loss to USC on Saturday night, Peter Carroll said to Matt Barkley; “Sweep the leg!”
And I thought Rick Neuheisel, who is still the best quarterback on the UCLA campus, was right on the money when said USC had the right to go deep and it’s the Bruins responsibility to stop it.
Check out the touchdown totals for seven of the eight remaining teams in the Southeast and Mid-Valley divisions…Exception being Diamond Ranch, which lists nothing, not even rosters…All stats are according to MaxPreps.com.
It may be somewhat academic thinking, but kinda-sorta is not a team much more dangerous when it has a number of different players scoring? Two extremes being Monrovia and Cal. Terris Jones has scored more than 75% of his team’s touchdowns. While M-Town has three players with double digit touchdown totals, but still had 12 other players register the remaining 22.
School, number of different players scoring touchdowns, total touchdowns, individual leader.
Monrovia 15 (64) Derrick Johnson 15, Nick Bueno 14, De’Shawn Ramirez 13
San Dimas 13 (65) Ryan Kohler 21, Tre Evans 11
Charter Oak 11 (48) Adam Muema 19
South Hills 10 (55) Geoffrey Vaughns 25, Ify Umodu 11
Azusa 10 (50) Kendrec McDade 16
Cal 8 (46) Terris Jones 31
Whit. Chris. 9 (45) Garrett Fulbright 22
Is it fair to say Geoffrey Vaughns 25 touchdowns have been a quiet 25?
I can’t remember a worse season in the NFL…Okay, I can’t remember personally suffering a worse season since coming to love the NFL… My fantasy football team couldn’t beat the Sisters of Mercy, my Rams are 1-10, and two of the three teams I despise the most, the Saints and Vikings, are the best in the NFC…
When does hockey season begin?
I like Charter Oak, South Hills in the Southeast…Monrovia, San Dimas in the Mid-Valley…
Note to Monrovia Assistant Mike Minter: I’ll forgo the meal I’m attempting to mooch, if you can hook a brother up with a decent parking spot Saturday night.
On this date in 1972 Temple City took a bus ride, a long bus ride, to Blythe where they spent the night and proceeded to defeat Palos Verde Valley High School 49-12. Keying the win was back up tailback Rick Munyon, playing for an injured Mike Nanko. Munyon rushed for 106-yards and a touchdown as the Rams won their 41st consecutive game and advanced to the the CIF semifinals.
On the same night at Citrus College Los Altos behind two touchdown runs by Binky Benton and two touchdown passes from Rob Hertel defeated Claremont 27-6. The victory improved the Conquerors to 11-0 and forwarded them to the semifinals.
On the same date at Citrus College, 17 years later (1989), Muir’s Carlton Greer scored on a three-yard run in overtime to give the Mustangs a 9-3 victory over Thousand Oaks to qualify for the CIF Finals.
Finally on this date in 2006 Joseph Orduno went 13-yards to Alex Valdez, Stephen Cano rushed for 106-yards, and Adrian Mendoza added a safety as Schurr knocked off the seemingly thought-to-be unbeatable La Habra Highlanders 9-7 to gain a birth in the CIF finals… Following the game the Spartans Julian Delahay shot an email off to the Mid Valley sharing extreme displeasure at Tim Peterson’s lack of vision in predicting in favor of La Habra …
For the record Peterson also picked against the Spartans in their first round match with South El Monte, in their second round match with Westminster, and of course the La Habra game.
“We don’t like Tim Peterson,” said then Schurr HC Elvin Dick to Mid Valley reporter Jonathan Saller after the Spartans 40-22 finals victory over Santa Fe.
The biggest problem in the Tiger Woods issue, is the media’s sense of entitlement…That’s all…
Woods is probably the most benign superstar in the world and yet all he does is play golf and sell merchandise. He hasn’t spoken out for causes, political or racial, or interplanetary…He does his job…and whatever took place in his home, with his wife, and subsequent smashing of the tree, does not constitute a right for the press to get a comment from him.
Everything now days is quote driven…Journalist need the quote as a starting point to either boost their idea of things or to deconstruct everything about the individual issuing the quote. In short journalists are lazy folk, who have grown corpulent on this sense of entitlement; “you owe me a quote”…when the world at large owes them jack.
Freedom of the press does not trump individual liberty. Journalists don’t work on relating what happened, they work on creating something that fits a particular scheme.
I have a place I’m going on this (hang in there)…A new friend has popped up on our message board accusing of not being real journalist…All I have to say to that is THANK YOU!
Call me a bum, call me a stiff, call me ugly, call me fat, call me reactionary, call me a joke, you can even call me late to dinner, but please don’t ever reference me as a journalist… The term journalist, in how its perceived today, is the equivalent of an ambulance chasing lawyer looking to steal a buck…the journalist is looking to steal the identity of those they purport to cover to gain some plain of importance…the need to believe they matter.
I’m a sportswriter…at The Mid we are sportswriters…We raise sportswriters, with no sense of entitlement. We write what we see, if we can accent it with a relevant quote all the better…Our job is to write down what happened without the pretense of being a journalist…
Great, now I feel a whole lot better.
Stay thirsty my friends…
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