It’s still too early in the season to start talking playoffs, but it’s fair to assume that the Homecoming game at Compton tonight will go a long way in deciding who will fight for the third and final automatic postseason birth out of the Moore League. Jordan (3-2, 0-1) is having its best season in […]
We’ve got some great shots of the Jackrabbits and Rams’ girls’ volleyball match taken by Art O’Neil.
St. Anthony (1-4) won its first game of the season last week in dramatic fashion, and plays one more nonleague game tonight at Clark Field against Agoura before staring Del Rey League play next week at Harvard-Westlake. Agoura (2-3) junior quarterback Nathaniel Frederick has already thrown for 1,309 yards and 14 touchdowns while completing 65 […]
Coming off one of their worst seasons in recent years, everything seems to be going as planned for the Avalon Lancers 8-Man football team this season. Avalon (3-0) has blowout wins over Desert Christian and Brethren Christian, and also beat Rolling Hills Prep 32-26 in overtime of a battle between perennial league champions. Avalon is […]
I’m sick and tired of writing about sports mascot controversy because it’s too easy for people to be on both sides of the spectrum. I think it’s ridiculous that the National Football League team in Washington uses a racial slur, but I also think it’s equally unnecessary that the University of Illinois was forced to […]
When Long Beach Poly senior and West Point signee Allanah Cutler was younger, she got the nickname “Biggie,” a pun on the rapper “Biggie Smalls.” She was the second youngest and second smallest of her parents’ five children, but also the most mature. “I was the smallest but also the biggest,” she said. She’s been […]
Here are a few Long Beach sporting events happening this weekend. THURSDAY High School Girls’ Volleyball, 4:30 p.m. Today marks the second round of Moore League play, and it is headlined by first-place Poly hosting Millikan. In other action, Wilson is at Cabrillo and Jordan is at Compton. High School Girls’ Golf, 2:30 p.m. The […]
Tony Azevedo (left) will MC the banquet while Adam Wright (center) is one of the headlining inductees. Photo courtesy Thomas Cordova. The Aquatic Capital of America will once again induct some of the finest water sport athletes in Long Beach history to its new but already-impressive Hall of Fame. The ACOA will hold its third-annual Hall of […]
The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team has had an up-and-down non-conference schedule that featured impressive wins, baffling losses, and proof that the team is capable on any given night of beating anyone in the Big West. It was no surprise that Long Beach handled UC Riverside easily in its Big West opener, sweeping them […]