(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)
1. Santa Clarita Christian beat St. Francis 61-39 to win the CIF Boys Basketball Division 2AA championship Saturday at Azusa Pacific.
2. The LA Wildcats of the XFL fell to the New York Guardians 17-14 Saturday to fall to 1-3 on the season.
3. The LA Galaxy played to a 1-1 draw with the Houston Dynamo Saturday in the MLS season opener.
4. Tony Romo agreed to stay with CBS in the broadcast booth signing a long term deal that could pay him as much as $17 million per year.
5. Sierra Canyon beat Mater Dei 59-48 Friday night to win the CIF Boys Basketball Open Division championship.
6. The Ganesha girls basketball team beat Bishop San Diego 58-35 to win the CIF Division 5 championship.
7. Hank Gathers statue was unveiled outside Gersten Pavilion at Loyola Marymount Saturday four days before the 30th anniversary of his death. Gathers, who is Loyola Marymount’s all-time leading scorer with 2,480 points, collapsed in a game against Portland on March 4, 1990 and was pronounced dead at a hospital later that evening. An autopsy revealed that Gathers, 23, died of a heart muscle disorder.
8. “Christian Koloko is from Sierra Canyon, who lost last night to Mater Dei.” – Bill Walton while calling the UCLA-Arizona game Saturday night. Sierra Canyon beat Mater Dei 59-48 Friday night.
9. UCLA is in first place in the Pac 12 Conference with a record of 12-5 after a 69-64 win over Arizona. USC is two games back at 10-7 after beating Arizona State.
10. On this date in 1962 Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points, the most ever by an NBA player in a single game, in a 169-147 win over the New York Knicks.
Does Bill Walton pay someone so he can be an announcer? I would prefer Daffy Duck or Elmer Fudd.
The ongoing feud between Clipper owner Steve Ballmer and the Madison Square Garden group has reached the point where the Forum will be sold to Mr. Ballz. The lawsuits between these two entities has already run into the tens of millions, and this sale indicates the New York group is waving the white flag. So Ballmer’s basketball palace will be built in Inglewood, either on the plot of the old Forum, or more likely, in the new football complex. That Microsoft money is really something.