Not only is she talented in basketball, but Candice Wiggins is a Renaissance woman in other sports as well. This past year she placed first in the long jump at the San Diego Section Division II championships. She also guided La Jolla Country Day to a Division IV runner-up finish in volleyball. Despite her wide-ranging […]
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Water polo faces youth, lack of communication
The blue and gold barely had a heartbeat all season long. Despite setting lofty standards for themselves, the Bruins finished with a 15-8 regular season record this past year and failed to make it to the NCAA tournament. Not making it to the NCAA tournament was uncharted water for the dominant Bruins, as they have […]
Probable No. 1 recruit gets to play with the boys
As if being the MVP of the Adidas Top Ten Girls All-American Basketball Camp this summer was not enough, San Diego High School senior Charde Houston had to do something different from the other girls. Houston has scored where no woman has scored before by becoming the first female player to participate in the men’s […]
Youthful team wins Say No title
Some say age brings wisdom and experience to the basketball court. Five weeks ago the Ballers, a team mostly comprised of former college players, gave Rise & Admire Us, a team made of mostly UCLA freshmen, a stern education, whipping the youngsters by 17 points. But that loss was perhaps the best thing to happen […]
Rivals battle at championship
There was a flavor of crosstown rivalry between the Trojans and the Bruins at the Men’s Nike Say No Classic Championship game. “I told Dijon early last week that he has to win on Friday so we can go at it in the finals,” USC guard Desmond Farmer said. All went according to plan as […]
Freshmen get season jump-start at Say No
Times are changing for UCLA’s basketball program, and you can thank the Say No Classic for helping them. Four incoming freshmen ““ Noelle Quinn, Amanda Livingston, Consuelo Lezcano and Shaina Zaidi ““ have inked their way to UCLA this off-season and will make an immediate mark on a program that has burgeoned the past few […]
Has-beens will hurt, not help Lakers
The City of Los Angeles is spoiled with back-to-back-to-back Lakers championships. Yet it was only fitting that a fourth parade never took place. What began as a season that saw one of its greats, Chick Hearn, forever silenced and ended with a Robert Horry three-pointer that should’ve gone in but didn’t, the Lakers were never […]