CHATTER: SPICIER MINUS CURRY?Byline: Lee Barnathan Staff Writer Random musings through the winter season and into the playoffs: Will Edniesha Curry return to the Cal State Northridge women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. team? She continues to appears at home games, sitting in the stands and chatting with former teammates afterward. It's nice the Matadors were able to win the big one without her, beating first-place Montana on Thursday. CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge now is in third place, a game behind Idaho State and a game and a half behind the Grizzlies The name Grizzlies may refer to:
Even if Curry did rejoin the team, though, it would be too late. Once, CSUN controlled its own destiny, needing just to win the rest of its games to finish first and host the Big Sky Conference tournament for the second time. Now, even Curry's return can't make that happen. Montana controls the conference now and will host the tournament, barring a complete collapse, which might have begun since it followed the loss to Northridge with another one at Northern Arizona Northern Arizona is dominated by the Colorado Plateau, the southern border of which in Arizona is called the Mogollon Rim. In the West lies the Grand Canyon, which was cut by the flow of the Colorado River while the land slowly rose around it. last week. If Curry is somehow playing by tournament time, remember this: Her last game was at Montana, and CSUN lost badly. We wonder if the program wouldn't be hurt more by Curry returning at this point. The remaining players are giving a heroic effort and certainly deserve praise. You're not quitters. . . . UCLA's women basketball players also can only wonder what if. The Bruins returned five starters, brought in a top freshman and looked like a Final Four team. But preseason injuries took their toll and they didn't stop coming. Five players currently are playing hurt, including Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. of La Crescenta graduate Michelle Greco, who is doing her best Steve Young impersonation Impersonation Patroclus wore the armor of Achilles against the Trojans to encourage the disheartened Greeks. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Prisoner of Zenda, The with three head injuries. On Saturday, she suddenly turned into Joe Montana Joseph Clifford "Joe" Montana, Jr., (born June 11 1956 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania), nicknamed "Joe Cool" and "The Comeback Kid", is a retired American football player whose professional career in the National Football League (NFL) spanned the late 1970s through the and helped the Bruins beat Arizona. So maybe UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX has hope. . . . It rained Wednesday, yet the soccer playoffs went on. All nine matches involving local teams went off as scheduled - even at Saugus, where the field drains poorly. Teams could have postponed until Thursday, but they didn't, and it was dry Thursday. This proves soccer can be an all-weather sport, as it is across the globe. Why not do it? The Southern Section and the schools can't use safety concerns as an excuse because they played in the rain this time. True, in the regular season, matches would have been postponed, but the playoffs proved it's not necessary. Is football any less dangerous in the rain than soccer? . . . For years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Southern Section held its soccer championships at inferior Gahr High, a smaller-than-regulation-sized field. People complained football and baseball plays at Anaheim Stadium (now Edison Field), and basketball plays at The Pyramid and The Pond. Even swimming has a good facility in Belmont Plaza. So why can't soccer have something at least as nice as East Los Angeles College ELAC is a two year college, offering associate degree programs in over 25 fields as well as both academic transfer courses which prepare students for admission to the University of California and California State University system and occupational programs which prepare students for , site of the City Section finals? It does now. Next week, the soccer champions will be crowned at Cal State Fullerton and La Mirada High. Actually, La Mirada has been used before. It's a step up from Gahr. ``We hope to make it a permanent thing,'' Southern Section sports information coordinator Thom Simmons said. ``The last couple of years, (Fullerton) hadn't been available.'' Here's hoping it is now and forever. . . . Valley United Soccer is having tryouts Feb. 26, 27 and March 5 at Cal State Northridge. Information: (818) 677-2379. . . . Grant of Van Nuys' baseball alumni game is Saturday. |
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