Spring training isn’t just about baseball. Here are some ideas on how to spend your time in the desert, whether you’re interested in partying hearty, spending quality time with the kids or expanding your cultural horizons: Five Best Hangouts For Singles
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Read any book on the subject by George Will, or watch one of those sepia-toned Kevin Costner movies, and it’s easy to see why baseball is known by the folklorish title "The National Pastime." It’s all about eating Cracker Jacks, and watching the big game with your pop — a Norman Rockwell portrait of nostalgia and sentimentality. But with increasingly exorbitant ticket prices for regular-season games — and overpaid and unapproachable players stocking rosters — baseball doesn’t exactly embody the innocence of Americana ascribed to it for so many decades.
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Anyone who has seen the St. Ignatius boys’ basketball team play this season has most likely witnessed the following play at some point:Wildcats forward Alex Brown plucking a defensive rebound among a host of bodies, speeding down the floor on the dribble through a maze of defenders and finally whipping a no-look pass to a wide open teammate for a score.
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When Alan Wiggins Jr. first stepped foot on the USF campus in August 2003, he earned the nickname "young boy" from his men’s basketball teammates because of his precocious status as a 17-year-old freshman.Four years later, Wiggins may still hear the nickname from an occasional teammate or coach old enough to remember his arrival, but any USF opponent expecting to find a "young boy" on the court was in line for a rude awakening.
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Most children who watched "Batman" growing up were inspired to explore the far reaches of their imaginations, envisioning themselves as "caped crusaders" on a mission to fight crime and make the streets safe for all citizens.Jim Grise, founder of Jim Grise Staffing, had a decidedly different take to the iconic popular culture show."When I was 5 years old and watching ‘Batman’ I knew what I wanted to be," Grise said. "This may sound funny, but I saw Alfred the butler, and I liked everything about him, and I just knew that’s what I wanted to do."
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As it prepares for the West Coast Conference tournament opener, the USF women’s basketball team finds itself in a situation very similar to what it faced last year at this time.In the 2006 tournament, the Dons entered as the WCC’s No. 7 seed, but they shocked tournament host and second-seeded Gonzaga in the first round 75-67 and played the No. 1 seed, Santa Clara, tough before losing a 75-65 overtime heartbreaker.
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Jan. 19 was not a good day for the Mission boys’ basketball team.That day, the Bears were blitzed by Academic Athletic Association foe International Studies Academy 94-76, dropping their record to a very pedestrian 7-8.Things didn’t appear much better last week, when the Bears faced ISA again, this time in the San Francisco Section quarterfinals and promptly found themselves trailing 24-8 after the first quarter.
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Despite the tears welling in her eyes after her team’s 47-39 loss to Santa Cruz in the Central Coast Section Division IV semifinals, Mercy senior forward Kristy Lee still found the appropriate words to summarize the season for her gritty squad."We just keep fighting to the end," said Lee, the co-Player of the Year in the West Bay Athletic League. "No one expected us to get this far, but we just kept fighting, no matter what happened to us."
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Personal technology accessories are more and more transportable and mobile — such as the stamp-size iPod Shuffle or the Vaio G Series laptop that weighs less than two pounds. The benefits are instant access to information and immediate connectivity. The only detraction is that it’s now a whole lot easier to lose these pricey possessions.
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Trailing 24-12 midway through the second quarter of the Bay Counties League West semifinal playoff game against top-seeded Urban, it would have been easy to chalk up the University girls’ basketball season as over. At that point, the Red Devils had already experienced a tough enough season as it was — they finished sixth in the BCL West at 4-8, including seven losses by six points or less.
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Eight days ago, the University girls’ basketball team was faced with the prospects of win or go home. Four games later, the Red Devils are still playing.University continued the momentum of its surprise Bay Counties West tournament title with a 44-30 first-round upset of St. Vincent of Petaluma in the North Coast Section V playoffs at USF’s War Memorial Gymnasium.
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Aaron Hall scored 25 points, Kevin Robinson added 22 and both hit key shots down the stretch to help the Lincoln boys’ basketball win its final Academic Athletic Association regular-season game 74-64 over host Mission.The Mustangs (20-11, 13-3 AAA), who entered the game with the Lang Division title already wrapped up, got 15 points from Hall in the first half and led 38-30 after two quarters of play.
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Asdirector of communications for Palo Alto eatery Bon Appétit, Maisie Greenawalt is aware of the importance of attracting positive attention to her company.But the adulation Greenawalt has helped Bon Appétit collect spreads beyond the norm of average business fanfare.
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Although he will never rack up considerable tennis style points, Ivo Karlovic continued to make his mark at the SAP Open.One night after taking down world No. 4 James Blake, Karlovic upset another highly regarded American, this time Mardy Fish, with a 7-6 (2), 6-4 victory in the quarterfinal round.Karlovic will face Benjamin Becker, another quarterfinal upset winner, in today’s semifinals.
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Facing a 6-foot-10 giant with a serve to match his stature on a court recently renovated to increase its surface speed couldn’t have been the scenario that James Blake had hoped for in the second round of the SAP Open.Despite all the adverse conditions, Blake still had plenty of chances to advance, but in the end he fell in a heartbreaker to the hard-hitting Croatian Ivo Karlovic 6-7 (4), 7-6 (11), 6-4.
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