(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)
- NCAA Men’s Basketball bracket is set with Duke, Virginia, North Carolina and Gonzaga as the top seeds.
- South El Monte Senior Nevaeh Castruita is hitting .500 with two home runs and 18 rbi’s. She is also 7-1 on the mound with a 1.84 ERA and 59 strikeouts.
- The Lakers lost to the New York Knicks for the second time this season 124-123. The Knicks currently possess the worst record in the NBA.
- Super Bowl winner and five-time NFL Pro Bowler Haloti Ngata announces his retirement in an Instagram post from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.
- After their most recent 4-1 victory over Birmingham HS, the Arcadia Apache baseball team remains undefeated at 11-0 (4-0 in the Pacific League)
- Russell Westbrook gets a one game suspension for picking up his 16th technical foul of the season.
- Austin Barnes is making a bid to be the Dodgers’ opening day catcher hitting .323 with two home runs and 12 rbi’s in 31 spring plate appearances.
- On this day in 1985 MLB Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Micky Mantle and Willie Mays who were previously given a lifetime ban by Bowie Kuhn for accepting jobs with Atlantic City casinos.
- The Anaheim Ducks are 11 points out of an NHL wild card spot with eight games to play.
- “I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. If you stay angry all the time, you don’t have a good life.” Willie Mays
Those of us who remember the showtime era of the Lakers franchise should cherish those old videotapes, because it’s obvious that NOTHING like that will recur in our lifetimes. Lebron may have honestly felt he could single-handedly will Los Angeles to a title, like we all hoped, but you can’t fight the ravages of time. The man, and this team, are beyond their expiration dates.
I saw Gladstone baseball play. Not impressed, 3B can not catch a cold. He can’t catch a ground ball and later that inning the catcher had the guy out on a stolen base and could not catch the ball. Pitchers throw in the mid sixties, slow. All the teams in the valley not in their league would beat them. This is not the Galdstone of old, not even close.
Gladstone Baseball still undefeated…. not showing them enough love!
From T. Peterson: To be honest all high school baseball doesn’t get enough love. 3:00 p.m. start times when we don’t get off work until 5:00 is no bueno.