With more raw relief than joy, USC head coach Jovan Vavic called his team’s sudden death NCAA semifinal victory over Stanford on Saturday a “classic.” “Two great teams, a great game...
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A huge day in American water polo. TWp monitored events from Bellarmine Prep in San Jose at the championship round of the Memorial Cup, the classic NorCal-SoCal boys high school...
Bellarmine Prep and Serra High School host the Memorial Cup in Northern California this weekend. Some notes from day one of the event: Sacramento’s Rio Americano was forced to abandon...
An old friend and teammate from California’s Bay Area who’s lived in Dallas for nearly a decade sat next to us for the final day of Texas’ high school championships in...
A tumultuous weekend of California boys water polo is ended, including a bit of revenge for Mater Dei, which topped El Toro by one goal to win the North-South Tournament...
Some disorganized thoughts and observations from what I saw of the 2009 Finis Memorial Cup: St. Mary’s: there has been an enormous amount of chatter about how physical (dirty?) St....
Sacred Heart Prep played host to the early games of the North-South Challenge yesterday. I got to see most of them. So here are my quick, random thoughts and observations....
An improbable, inspirational, and nearly magical tournament is over. The US was overmatched and overwhelmed despite remaining within four goals of the winner of three consecutive Olympic gold medals. Karma,...
[Terry Schroeder] recalled how in 1988 Russia “threw” a match to face the United States in the semifinals, rather than Yugoslavia. The ploy motivated the Americans to knock out Russia....
A historic win for the Yanks, not so much for the quality of the win over Germany (a team with glaring weaknesses, not including its superb goalkeeping) but for the...
