When I heard that Long Beach legend Willie Brown had passed away a few weeks ago, I was on a family vacation in Mammoth. Willie was one of Long Beach’s true legends, and I was sad to hear that he’d left us; I spent most of the rest of the day thinking about him and […]
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COLUMN: Players Should Decide Player Of The Year
No one who voted on the 2018 Big West Baseball Pitcher Of The Year award tried to get a hit off of Clayton Andrews. I think that needs to change. Andrews was one of the best two-way players in the country for the Long Beach State Dirtbags. The junior southpaw led the Big West with […]
COLUMN: LBSU Championship A Golden Chance To Remember
It was the fourth set of the NCAA men’s volleyball championship game between Long Beach State and UCLA, and the local kids were trailing 17-13. I should have been beginning to write my story or trying to read the lips of the Long Beach coaches across the court from me. Instead, as the 49ers’ freshman […]
COLUMN: Long Beach Way Leads To LBSU National Championship
The 2018 Long Beach State men’s volleyball national championship season is not a Cinderella story. However, the 49ers played like rabid underdogs against UCLA on Saturday at Pauley Pavilion where championship banners hang like pieces of art in a museum of historic success. Mike and I fought for five years at the Long Beach Press-Telegram […]