....whom the Aggies defeated, 18-10. Tomorrow begins with a match against host Brown and an afternoon game agains St. Francis of Brooklyn.

Street & Smith's piece on San Jose State ends with "Beyond the opener against UC Davis, it's tough to spot many victories on the schedule."

Fake News! #SAD! Making Aggies Great Again!

To be fair, Bee's Saturday print edition has an AP wire service article on the Davis game in the middle of page 2 of the sports section, (and nothing I could find on that other school.)

Whatever the expectations, the Mercury News wrote before and after articles, and with some size and analysis. The best anyone can expect of the Bee is a small bit in tomorrow's paper, with an attribution to "a campus website." Probably too late for even that. WIll have to write something about Slack's opener against the NAIA FIghting Saints of St. Francis University of Illinois.

San Jose Mercury News-

Pre-game:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/29/sjsu-should-thump-uc-davis-in-opener-thursday-night-and-heres-why/

Post game:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/31/what-we-learned-in-san-jose-states-opener-it-wasnt-good/

Utah took control and scored 34 unanswered points to win, 41-10.

In the other Big Sky opener Montana State topped visiting Western Illinois, 26-23.

A friend of my daughter's did a graduate ass't job at Texas A&M. Said she was pretty much "Howdy, Ma'am!"-ed out after just a few weeks.

Not sure if this is treason, or charity work, but former Aggie lineman Ron Sockolov, who used to spend his summers pushing a VW around Davis, is a team physician at that other school in the Greater Sacramento Metropolitan Area.
http://www.hornetsports.com/information/sportsmedicine/staff

I went with memory, but checked with google. In this day and age no question goes unanswered, but we must be ever vigilant of the dreaded 'fake news.'

Now to test my memory, I recall stories that there was a physician who worked with the athletic teams who also had a pilot's license. From time to time he was pressed into aviation service as he flew Rolf Benirschke from afternoon soccer games to evening football games. Somehow it was added to stories of the Miracle Game...that the doctor/pilot was flying Rolf to Hayward as the final minutes of the game played out. Then I think Rolf got out of the plane, chopped down a cherry tree, and threw a silver dollar across the Bay. I may be wrong.....

(FWIW: 1982, North Dakota State)

Apparently Slack recently worked out a similar arrangement with ESPN 1320:

http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/fball/2018-19/releases/20180731r54m67

https://espn1320.radio.com/blogs/espn-radio/espn-1320-now-home-sacramento-state-athletics-home-hornets

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article216215400.html

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/news/2018/8/6/football-uc-davis-signs-three-year-agreement-with-sports-1140-khtk.aspx

Great news!

Very cool....(though I would love to be at Jackson State when the band takes the field.)

As I recall the AWC was UCD which was still in D2 and a few teams like Slack, Poly, Southern Utah and maybe Northridge that had all made the move to D-1AA. That might have been the reason that the Ags only stayed in the conference for one year. The conference died when Slack, Southern Utah and Northridge went to the Big Sky. Davis went D2 Independent, which was of course not a conference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_West_Conference

The Great West was purely a conference of convenience for teams in the midwest and west coast in need of a football league of some sort. Like the American West, it died as teams found homes in more traditional conferences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_West_Conference

Far West Conference 1925-81
Northern California Athletic Conference 1982-1992
American West Conference 1993
D-II Independent 1994-2003
Great West Conference 2004-2011
Big Sky Conference 2012-Present

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/ucda/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2016-17/misc_non_event/2016Guide.pdf (Pp. 40-44)

I noticed that this year the Bee had interns test fireworks and had interns test food at the State Fair. Sounds like a nice gimmick, but it also suggests that they are using interns for assignments that used to go to full time reporters. Finally got an e-mail from the Bee about my subscription issue. It contained a sentence that would make an editor fume. Didn't make sense and if there was a subject and a verb they did not agree with each other. This morning's Sports section has one (1) article by a Bee writer, and that is just one more twist pointing out that the Kings aren't doing much for the roster during the off-season. Articles about the A's (from the New York Times and the San Jose Mercury-News) and one about the Raiders' announcer (from the East Bay Times.) Nothing on the Rivercats.

And if I recall correctly the GNAC made a strong pitch for us to join them. Want to play two games with Simon Fraser and two with Azusa Pacific every year? Then scramble for games with Northwest Nazerine and club teams from Mexico.

OK, this from the HSU athletic website and I'm done for awhile:
http://www.hsujacks.com/news/2018/7/16/general-university-announces-football-decision.aspx

Gender equity is about the numbers of bodies on the field, court, diamond, track or pitch, not the number of sports. That is why football is such a killer in the numbers game. I would assume that HSU might be able, heck, might be required to add some men's sports such as baseball or golf. Maybe equestrian.