This week on the show we’re talking to Long Beach State Dirtbags coach Eric Valenzuela about how he’s preparing his team for the 2012 Big West Conference schedule that was released this week and starts in about a month. 01:00 We’ve got good news! 07:30 Interview with LBSU Dirtbags coach Eric Valenzuela 30:00 NFL reactions […]
The 40-game Big West Conference-only schedule for the Long Beach State Dirtbags has been released with four-game series every weekend starting in March. In an effort to get more games per week without non conference competition, the conference has added a Saturday doubleheader as part of the schedule. LBSU has not added any non-conference games, […]
Monday was an awful day for the Long Beach City College athletics as the Vikings lost two members of their family. First came the news of women’s soccer assistant coach Sal Marroquin’s heart attack that morning, and then they found out baseball player Jackson Roeder had also passed away suddenly. Roeder was 21. According to […]
Keith Hansen is a social guy, to put it mildly. The former Century Club president, Wilson High principal, and Lakewood High vice principal knows so many people that when he’s at a game or out for dinner with his wife (Ocean View School District superintendent Carol Hansen) there’s a steady stream of people greeting him […]
From the time I was old enough to hold a bat, my heroes were always baseball players, and Hank Aaron was the first. I was only four years old in April of 1974 when he hit his historic home run to pass Babe Ruth, so if that moment was spoken of in my home, I […]
JP Crawford is official. The Lakewood High product just finished his fourth season in the Major Leagues, and received a significant honor as well, earning a Gold Glove honor as the top defensive shortstop in the American League. Crawford committed only three errors in 53 games, while hitting a career-best .255. It’s not bad for […]
Travis d’Arnaud didn’t even know they were announcing the Major League Baseball Sliver Slugger awards last Thursday, but a text from a friend reminded him just in time. “With 10 minutes left (in the awards show) me and my wife just rushed to the couch and turned it on (the television),” d’Arnaud said. “Once we […]
On this special episode we talk to Lakewood High alum and Long Beach native J.P. Crawford less than 24 hours after he won the American League Gold Glove at shortstop with the Seattle Mariners.
If you were driving under Interstate 405 in Long Beach during the COVID-19 spring shutdown, you could’ve seen a Major League Baseball player throwing weighted balls against the side of a massive concrete pillar. “I rode my bike there and played catch with a wall for six weeks,” Chase De Jong said. “Instead of sitting […]
On this special episode we talk to Wilson High alum Chase De Jong about his incredible and inspiring journey back into Major League Baseball where he was in the Houston Astros bullpen for the epic American League Championship Series this year.