From the smoldering catacombs of Acorn Sports Island, which can be seen through the sublime green smog of Monster Island where Godzilla vacations in sunglasses and fruity mocktails adorned with regular-sized umbrellas while clutching his first Academy Award after 69 years and 38 movies, the sports editor and Snot Otter have cast their votes. The Acorn All-Stars for high school […]
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Hold onto your hat
BASEBALL /// Moorpark MusketeersTHE DUDES ABIDE—There’s always room for more baseball. Above right, Moorpark High baseball pitcher Connor Tutino delivers cheddar while losing his hat on Feb. 15 against Ventura at home. Above, Moorpark’s Cameron Johnson fields a ground ball and throws to first base against Ventura. The Musketeers are 4-6 overall, 0-1 in the Coastal Canyon League at press time.
Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame will honor five newcomers
Five legends of sports will be immortalized. The Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame, which was established in 1983, will induct Natalie Sanderson, Sami Whitcomb, Elaine Canchola, Jackie Newman and Cliff Farrar into the Class of 2024. A ceremony will be held later this year. Sanderson, a 2001 Buena High grad, was a goal-scoring soccer wizard who excelled for Pac-12 […]
Let’s play two
Moorpark baseball team, with second skipper in 30 years, seeks 15th straight CIF playoff appearanceFor the first time in three decades, there’s a new skipper in the Musketeers’ dugout. Aaron Garcia, a 2002 Moorpark High grad, is the new head coach of the school’s baseball team. He has taken over for Scott Fullerton, who guided the Musketeers for 29 seasons. Garcia knows he has enormous cleats to fill: Fullerton directed the Musketeers to 14 […]
La Reina’s last tango on the pitch
Girls’ soccer team secures league crown, notches first CIF playoff win since 2012Pia Sullivan was taking a nap after school on what she called a random Wednesday in the middle of the soccer season. “I woke up, and my phone was blowing up,” the La Reina High freshman center back defender said. Sullivan didn’t wake up from a nightmare. She woke up to one. The terrible news on Jan. 24 was true: […]
The journey ends for Moorpark seniors
PLAYOFFS /// Winter reportA special senior class walks off the soccer pitch. The seniors on the Moorpark High girls’ soccer team won four straight Coastal Canyon League titles. Last year’s squad earned CIF-Southern Section and SoCal regional championships. The ending was bittersweet: Moorpark lost 4-0 at Westlake in the second round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs on Feb. 10. The Musketeers opened […]
Super Bowl 58 Showdown: The quest to eliminate stupid Roman numerals
Sports editor predicts a Kansas City Chiefs win to cement Swifties’ dynastyThis is the battle for the soul of America. What? You think it’s Super Bowl 58, the K.C. Swifties vs. the Santa Clara 49ers on Feb. 11 in the City of Endless Buffets? No way, José. It’s not right vs. left, crazy vs. insane, Jim Harbaugh vs. Iggy Pop, or even Jim “Cheater in Khakis” Harbaugh vs. Ron “It’s the […]
Super Bowl 58 Showdown: The quest to eliminate stupid Roman numerals
Snot Otter picks San Francisco 49ers in a debacle, seeks Superb Owl of Joan MiróWhen I lived in Lincolnwood, Illinois, near Henry A. Proesel Park, I swear I saw Joe Montana in our family kitchen circa 1988. Is that Joe Cool? I stared intently at the mole on his neck. That’s him alright. I was convinced. So, Joe Montana’s hanging out in my kitchen. I mean, he did call his wife from a sideline […]