Wow, the Bee actually wrote something on Big Sky media day...
https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article215051045.html

All things come to he who waits - Equestrian coach named: http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/genrel/071618aaa.html

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/hometown-report/article214374629.html

I have come to that point in life where I think that 73 is way too young to pass away.

Very confusing plea by the Bee. They really seem to be ready to kiss off the print edition, which may be the future of newspapers in any event. Article talks about the need for 45,000 new digital subscriptions.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article212796919.html

Many of the suggestions seem to have to do with digital delivery. Daily reports, consolidating the McClathcy newspaper reporting in the valley, shrinking the size of the already diminutive print edition....

And a digital subscription is now $130 a year. https://account.sacbee.com/static/subscribe/ Don't ask what a print subscription costs. Looking at the Bee website is like trying to understand a new car contract. Nothing tells the reader the actual price, only the introductory offers and the "from as low as...."

Meanwhile they lay off reporters and as noted, have abandoned local college sports.

Washington scores 2 in the bottom of the 10th to come from behind and defeat CSU Fullerton, 6-5. Huskies advance to the College World Series.

Fullerton ends up hosting Washington. They have split the first two games with the decider tomorrow. Winner advances to the College World Series.

Dated tomorrow! Back to the future.

NBA has to be an uphill battle if he struggled at an Australian pro league tryout, but wish him well.

Seems a lot of people, often coaches, lose their jobs because of "misstatements" in their resumes or applications. Don't need to deal with things that may be judgement calls or invite litigation when you can point out a clear cut factual error in the application.

"FAU reported it had more than doubled the number of athletes on its women’s track team from the previous year, but the team’s own website shows that was far from the case. The staggering numbers: FAU reported having 98 women’s track athletes. The roster showed no more than 43, and the team photo showed 38.

The 98 women, FAU claimed, occupied 222 roster spots on its cross country, indoor track and outdoor track teams, more than any women’s track program among the 127 major sports schools."

https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/gender-equality-fau-gave-feds-false-numbers-ranked-near-bottom/r1HcYrXaoDkiq5DbW8woOI/

Shocked that FAU would be involved in anything like this. UCD's mens basketball coach for the 1989-90 year was Lonnie Williams who had previously coached at FAU. He left Davis after one year under a cloud...as I recall there were allegations that he had fudged a bit on his application.

At least FAU has cleaned up their athletics with the hiring of Lane Kiffin as head football coach.

Remember about 15 years ago when Stanford's rugby club forfeited rather than play Cal? Two Stanford alums reacted to the news by donating a spare million or so to the school to upgrade the club, including building an outstanding rugby facility. Got a problem? Throw money at it until it goes away.

Would be nice to think Gates and Jobs might direct some spare cash (and a daughter?) to Davis. Less nice to think they might establish an equestrian facility on the Peninsula for the use of the Junior University...On the other hand it would help to have another school with an equestrian team in California, and since the home team provides horses, I bet Stanford would come up with some very nice ones.

So we may have assured at least a tie. Still nothing in print about making up the rain postponed softball game. Looking at team schedules, it will be hard to find a date, unless both teams miss the play-offs and they can tack a game on after the regular season....assuming NCAA rules permit that. Hornet website simply does not show the game and lists a maximum of 75 points. http://hornetsports.com/fan_info/causewaycup/2017-18
If that's the case, we've locked down a tie.

Old planes, poor maintenance, some scary incidents, some involving in-air cabin fires,...

Here's the article from CBS news, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allegiant-air-the-budget-airline-flying-under-the-radar/

And in fairness, Allegiant's response, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allegiant-air-60-minutes-defensive-2018-04-16/

"60 Minutes" ran a story on Allegiant Air a couple of weeks ago. Might be better to walk. Barefoot. At night. In dark clothing. Wearing blinders. On the wrong side of the road.

According to the Slack sports site, UCD women defeated Slack women in tennis today, 4-3. Running score is now UCD 37.5, SUCS 25. Next up is Track & Field this coming Friday, at Slack. The second baseball game is scheduled for May 8th, and a softball rain-out remains to be scheduled. One win or a couple of ties and the Causeway Cup remains where it is happiest.

For what it's worth: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/article209195019.html

Ouch. Baseball lost, 8-2. Giving up 7 runs in one inning will do that to you. Causeway running score is not UCD 32.5, SUCS 25.0. Next up is track this Friday and women's tennis on Saturday.

The track meet, to be held at Sac, has been rescheduled to April 27th.

Each of the Slack State tennis teams has eight roster players, and on each team only two are American.

(Though perhaps we could recruit some foreigners for field hockey for a few years while the sport is still pretty much an emerging sport this side of the Mississippi River. We do have one Dutch player, but there must be some prospects in Asia or Down Under who could use an ag related degree.)