Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Order is being restored in the Pac-10 with the top six teams evening out. This makes sportswriters’ jobs easy when debating the top six teams; basically, we look at the standings and count down using the number of losses as our frame of reference. First, […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa The Law of the Jungle It’s been two weeks since I last chimed in on the Pac-10, and boy am I tired. It’s a jungle out there. Living here in Los Angeles, one gets kind of lazy about their basketball teams. After all, the Lakers […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Will Not Coach for Food Pac-10 play went on unabashed and teams were eager to provide the types of games it did last year. It was lucky for those of us that enjoy watching the Pac-10 that UCLA did not play in every game, otherwise […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Lavin for President, ’cause he ain’t staying here As Steve Lavin combs his hair back and Jason Kapono sighs, the alumni whisper to each other. Is this the year? Is this the year they finally get what they have been asking for each of the […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa The beginning of Pac-10 play usually forces me to rethink my perceptions of the rational world. After all, if Arizona State could beat Oregon last year, then am I really a sentient being, or merely a pawn in a much larger, much more ordered reality? […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa State of the Union The last week of non-conference games for the Pac-10 played out how Madam Sasha predicted when reading the tea leaves for me the other day. Oregon and Arizona killed UC Riverside and Davidson, respectively. Washington and Washington State eeked by CS […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Advice for the ranked and rankled Arizona has been unseated as the number one team in the nation, Oregon has been spanked by Cincinnati, and Stanford lost two of their last three games heading into conference play. It seems that my once unbalanced Pac-10 is […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Congratulations Pac-10, you had a great week beating up on some skilled and talented nobodies. Only two Washington losses spoiled your perfect week. You can thank Lorenzo Romar and Paul Graham for their schools inability to recruit for multiple sports. Teams were given the opportunity […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa With Stanford and Oregon beating up on ranked opponents, and Arizona poised for big games against Texas and Kansas, the Pac-10 might not be so bad off after all. Well, look again. If it weren’t for the success of those three teams, the Pac-10 would […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa UCLA Having given up its star recruit Evan Burns to San Diego St., and having to travel to San Diego in order to watch good local football games (since true UCLA fans would never be caught dead in red and gold at the Coliseum), UCLA […]