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 […]
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Pac-10 Notebook
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
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
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 […]
Pac 10 Notebook
Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Now that Stanford has handed Xavier its hat and Arizona has decimated Western Kentucky, the Pac-10 will take its place in the upper echelons of college basketball lore. Now, my friends will tell you that I say the same thing every year, and then UCLA […]
Pac-10 Preview
Pac-10 Conference Preview by Joaquin Mesa The summer baseball lull has come and passed, and college football has once again reminded us that there is indeed a benevolent, caring god. Now, in the midst of our own celebration of life, comes Pac-10 basketball. Can you believe it? Once again we […]
Next Generation Pac-10 Stars
Pac-10 Generation Next by Nicholas Lozito Each and every college basketball season, the Pac-10 Conference sends at least five teams to the NCAA Tournament and is considered one of the deepest conferences, from top to bottom, in the nation. But due to the loss of All-Americans Casey Jacobsen, Sam Clancy, […]
World Series Wildcat
“The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!” While it was not quite the legendary moment that Bobby Thomson’s famous homer was in 1951, Kenny Lofton’s game-winning, pennant-clinching single in the bottom of the ninth against the St. Louis Cardinals in 2002 will certainly rank up there when […]
Championship Icon Under Investigation
Championship Icon Under Investigation by Nicholas Lozito In the 1995 NCAA Championship Game in Seattle, UCLA point guard Cameron Dollar was all a dollar could be — cool and crisp, with a president’s glare cast upon him. After starting point guard Tyus Edney, who had hit a game-winning lay-up in […]
Pac-10 Tournament Finals
Dispatch from Pac-10 Land – Finals by Phil Kasiecki In the Pac Ten championship game, Arizona used a strong second half to beat USC in a well-played but poorly officiated game. USC got off to a fast start, as they scored off their press and missed Wildcat shots. But Salim […]
