Ulonzo is not on the Dolphins current roster.

There is an episode of the TV comedy Cheers where Sam Malone tries his hand as a sportscaster. During an editorial he tries a little rap;

"Get your scores from a guy like me
Who knows what it's like to have a groin injury
G-g-groin, G-g-groin, G-g-groin injury."

"Didn't Mike Moroski play football and baseball?"

Yes.

Apparently liked to throw the ball. QB in football and pitcher in baseball.

Wayback when....you could find people who played football, basketball and baseball. Longer schedules, more post season games, year-round teams, have made that unlikely anymore.

Easier because he was kicker, and UCD was D-II, but Benirschke played football AND soccer, sometimes on the same day.

If we dip into high school ranks you can add Tony Franks at St. Mary's in Stockton and Dan Carmazzi at Jesuit and at Christian Brothers in Sacramento. Not sure what Franks is doing now. Carmazzi has retired. Both built HS powers in the Sac-Joaqin section.

Also in high school (though after Sochor's teams...) J.T. O'Sullivan was the head coach at Patrick Henry High School in the San Diego area for three seasons from 2019-2021.

Whatever the crime rate is in San Diego proper, the UC San Diego campus is in La Jolla. Maybe we could put the UC Davis campus in Carmel.

Northwestern and Boston College will play for the women's D1 lacrosse title on Sunday morning (May 28) at 9:00 on ESPN.

And Notre Dame plays Duke for the men’s title on Monday at 10:00, also on ESPN.

Should you ever go to a field hockey game, explain it to me.

I have not watched a game at Davis and in fact have never watched a live college level game for men or women. The action is much more like every field sport except American gridiron football in that, in theory anyway, play is continuous. Think soccer and rugby, or ice hockey on turf.

This is a good time to catch some lacrosse on TV as the NCAA tournament is in progress. There is a final four set-up on Saturday and Monday of Memorial Day weekend. Not sure about the women's schedule or whether any of it is televised.

Women's game is supposed to be a little "safer" than the men's because there is not supposed to be any "checking." I believe women are required to wear protective eye-wear.

Next year UCD and San Diego State join the Pac 12 (?) as affiliate members for women's lacrosse. They had been playing in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, but the MPSF dropped lacrosse when the Pac 12 began to sponsor it. I believe Fresno State dropped it.

According to some lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in American high schools. There are local HS leagues in Northern California.

TV folks have to be cringing as the chances of a Celtics vs Lakers finals are rapidly going down the drain.

That UCLA loss is a stunner. They were the No. 2 seeded team in the NCAA tournament and hosted the regional. They lost to Grand Canyon and Liberty. Davis played in the Softball NIT, an 8 team invitational in Ft. Collins, CO. Not a great showing for the Big West as the two conference teams in the Invitational, Davis and Northridge, each went O-2, as did Fullerton and Long Beach State in the NCAAs.

Megan, er, Morgan*, signed to Sky opening day roster!

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2023/5/18/womens-basketball-morgan-bertsch-named-to-chicago-sky-roster.aspx

*EDIT:
My apologies to Morgan and my thanks to AggieFinn2. If that was the only mistake I made in a day, it would be a great day.

Go Morgan! Go Sky! Beat the Lynx!

Ulonzo Gilliam participating in Miami Dolphins Rookie Minicamp this weekend....

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2023/5/12/football-ulonzo-gilliam-jr-invited-to-miami-dolphins-rookie-minicamp.aspx

Baseball score from Sac: CSUS 7, UCD 5.

This is the final competition between the schools this year.

Ags won the overall Causeway Cup this year with 55.85 points to the Hornets’ 34.18.

And throw in an early attempt at a playoff, the Bowl Championship Series, or BCS.

I would piggyback off of BaseballatDobbins' comment...and wonder, without any research, just what effect the transfer portal has had on FCS and HBCU athletes when it comes to the pro-draft. I read yesterday that only one HBCU player was drafted this year. It would be interesting to see if a meaningful number of players started in smaller programs, then tranferred to FBS programs and were subsequently drafted. In the past some of those would have been drafted straight out of their initial schools.

Aggie track & field teams lost both sides of the Causeway Duals with the CSUS women winning by a score of 105-88 and the men by 95-77.

"Running" (HAR!) score for the coveted Causeway Cup is now UCD 55.85, CSUS 32.51.

The final Causeway event this athletic year is the last of three baseball games, scheduled for May 9 at Sacramento.

CSUS defeated UCD in women's tennis this afternoon, 4-3, in a match in Sacramento. Current overall Causeway score is now UCD 55.85, CSUS 22.51.

Next event for both men and women is the Causeway Dual Meet in track & field. An earlier schedule had the meet at Sacramento on Saturday, April 29th, but now the schedules for both schools show the event on Friday, the 28th, at Davis.

After track & field there is the last of three baseball games, scheduled for May 9 at Sacramento. That will mark the end of another breathless Causeway Cup campaign.

As you have mentioned, Tuesday games are a whole different thing. Kind of like minor league ball. Winning a game is secondary to player development and whatever else coaches are doing to get the team or players ready for games that really count...conference games in college, "the Show" in professional ball.

Men's tennis score from Sacramento: Ags 4, Hornets 1

Running Causeway score, assuming you include men's tennis, UCD 55.85, CSUS 17.51.

Next event is women's tennis at Sacramento this coming Friday.


AND, the UCD Causeway website has been updated to include the previously mentioned missing sports. There are some hiccups regarding a couple of events and a couple of scores as well as some arithmetic, but basically we are on the same page....

Meanwhile, Sac beat No. 9 Stanford yesterday, 15-13, in Stanford.