((HT: Cam Smith/USA Today))
Cam, an FOSG, had this story in his byline and it shocked us a whole lot...
Not that Long Beach Poly won a game Friday night against Compton, but the sheer margin of it...
99-9 and that after Compton actually had a 6-0 lead.
Here's the highlights-presumably not all of them...
((HT: Long Beach Gazette))
Poly led 35-6 after the first quarter, 63-9 at halftime and then added 26 points in the second half- playing four quarterbacks and a lot of bench guys in general.
From Eric Sondheimer's piece in the LA Times, it just got...bad...
Poly Coach Antonio Pierce said he played four quarterbacks, plus lots of freshmen and pulled starters after the first quarter.
"To be honest, I was shocked," he said. "It was to the point kids wouldn't tackle."
Compton head coach Elijah Asante was realistic about it, though:
Amazingly so, really...
"I have to bring their spirits back up," Asante said. "For me, it's no big deal. We lost a football game real bad. We have to go in the weight room. We have to run and I have to somehow get to the kids and let them know, 'It's OK. It's just a loss. We have to get back up and this is where we show our character.'"
Anyone know how the HQ can get some Compton gear...???
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Monday, June 16, 2014
DEVELOPING: Tony Gwynn Passes At 54
After a prolonged battle with cancer of the salivary gland, 8-time batting champ Tony Gwynn has died at the age of 54. He had battled it in 2009 and again in 2012 when it recurred.
He was equal to Honus Wagner in batting titles and finished with 3,141 career hits (18th all-time) and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007 with Cal Ripken, Junior.
The head coach of the San Diego State baseball program had taken a leave of absence from the program to fight the disease in recent months.
And, to tell you a quick story on how tremendous a physical athlete Gwynn was, he was once taken in for an eye test since people often wondered how a career .338 hitter could pick up the ball so well and so quickly out of a pitcher's hand.
The initial eye test came back with vision that was 20/10- meaning that he could pick up objects clearly at twenty feet that others could at only ten feet in front of them. A retest was demanded since the first round of results weren't believed.
The second test came back 20/8.
Here's a piece the Aztecs had done on them by ESPN's "Outside The Lines" group after Gwynn survived round one back in 2011. Tom Friend reports for OTL
((HT: goaztecs.com))
He was equal to Honus Wagner in batting titles and finished with 3,141 career hits (18th all-time) and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007 with Cal Ripken, Junior.
The head coach of the San Diego State baseball program had taken a leave of absence from the program to fight the disease in recent months.
And, to tell you a quick story on how tremendous a physical athlete Gwynn was, he was once taken in for an eye test since people often wondered how a career .338 hitter could pick up the ball so well and so quickly out of a pitcher's hand.
The initial eye test came back with vision that was 20/10- meaning that he could pick up objects clearly at twenty feet that others could at only ten feet in front of them. A retest was demanded since the first round of results weren't believed.
The second test came back 20/8.
Here's a piece the Aztecs had done on them by ESPN's "Outside The Lines" group after Gwynn survived round one back in 2011. Tom Friend reports for OTL
((HT: goaztecs.com))
Monday, June 17, 2013
OSG High: Banks Rape Accuser Must Pay Back $2.6M To School District
((HT: CNN))
Wanetta Gibson accused Brian Banks of raping her as they were both in high school at Long Beach Poly in 2002. Banks was the high school football star who, seemingly, had his life in front of him at the time.
Banks was convicted, only to be released ten years later after years of appeals, and found out that the allegations Gibson made on rape and kidnapping after a consensual sexual act were false- she admitted to that on tape after she received her settlement.
Banks was released from jail in May of 2012 and is trying to catch on with the Atlanta Falcons as a linebacker.
Greg Mellen of the Long Beach Press-Telegram now says that the Long Beach school district can now try and reclaim the settlement Gibson got from them. She currently is somewhere she can't be found, but the district can get their money back from future wages.
Don Lemon discusses with Sunny Hostin
The settlement was somewhere between $750,000 and $1.5-million.
Wanetta Gibson accused Brian Banks of raping her as they were both in high school at Long Beach Poly in 2002. Banks was the high school football star who, seemingly, had his life in front of him at the time.
Banks was convicted, only to be released ten years later after years of appeals, and found out that the allegations Gibson made on rape and kidnapping after a consensual sexual act were false- she admitted to that on tape after she received her settlement.
Banks was released from jail in May of 2012 and is trying to catch on with the Atlanta Falcons as a linebacker.
Greg Mellen of the Long Beach Press-Telegram now says that the Long Beach school district can now try and reclaim the settlement Gibson got from them. She currently is somewhere she can't be found, but the district can get their money back from future wages.
Don Lemon discusses with Sunny Hostin
The settlement was somewhere between $750,000 and $1.5-million.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Banks Rape Sentence Vacated
((HT: NBCLosAngeles))
A former Long Beach Poly high school football star was exonerated on a rape conviction by a southern California judge.
Brian Banks lawyer told him to plead nolo contendere 10 years ago after a childhood friend, Wanetta Gibson, falsely accused him of attacking her on their high school campus. After serving five years in prison and another five on probation with an ankle monitor attached, Gibson (at some point after his release) friended Banks on Facebook.
She would admit to him twice that she lied- once on tape. Gibson's only hang-up was that she didn't want to give back $1.5-million her family got in a civil settlement from the Long Beach City School System.
Gordon Tokumatsu was outside the courthouse...
A former Long Beach Poly high school football star was exonerated on a rape conviction by a southern California judge.
Brian Banks lawyer told him to plead nolo contendere 10 years ago after a childhood friend, Wanetta Gibson, falsely accused him of attacking her on their high school campus. After serving five years in prison and another five on probation with an ankle monitor attached, Gibson (at some point after his release) friended Banks on Facebook.
She would admit to him twice that she lied- once on tape. Gibson's only hang-up was that she didn't want to give back $1.5-million her family got in a civil settlement from the Long Beach City School System.
Gordon Tokumatsu was outside the courthouse...
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