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The TEN

(“The Ten” is not a top ten, but ten items worth being included in The TEN)

1.) “The Mid Valley Sports Show” is LIVE tonight at (7:PM) www.midvalleysports.com (Click on UStream button)

2.) Former Temple City (& Buena Park linebacker) Carlos Mota turns 19 today.

3.) “Matt Schaub is more synonymous with “Pick 6’s” than Damien Thorn with Seborrihic Dermatitis.”—Dennis Miller

4.) Muir at Burbank (Burrough H.S.) this Friday, October 18.

5.) On this day in 1988, with two outs in the bottom of the ninth in Game 1 of the World Series, Kirk Gibson…

6.) “Norwalk is the bully at at the beach that kicks sand on the 98 pound weakling. What happens when they kick sand on the wrong dude??? We shall see. So far they are walking the walk.”—MVS poster “Bobby Knight”

7.) “If today was a playoff or NBA Finals [game], could I play? Probably.”—Kobe Bryant

8.) Azusa Pacific returns home on Saturday, November 2nd to play Western Oregon. The Cougars are currently 4-1 in league (4-2 overall) and tied for first in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

9.) “I’ve talked to our students, our parents and our community about this and nobody finds any offense at all in it. ‘Redskins’ is not an insult to our kids. ‘Wagon burners’ is an insult. ‘Prairie n—–s’ is an insult. Those are very upsetting to our kids. But ‘Redskins’ is an honorable name we wear with pride. … In fact, I’d like to see somebody come up here and try to change it.”—Tim Ames, superintendent of Wellpinit schools, where the Wellpinit Redskins play with a student body that is 91.2% Native American.

10.) Mid Valley Sports covers three divisions, 99 high schools, here are the touchdown leaders: Rushing: Norwalk’s Rashaad Penny 17Tds. Receiving: Oak Park’s Matt Byer 20Tds. Passing: Oak Park’s Chandler Whitbord 26Tds.