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  • The Causeway Cup that wasn't, 2020-2021
    Sac swept the track meet with the Hornet men winning 94-75 and the women 103-78. UCD ends up with more non-points in the non-competition, 22.5 - 17.5.
  • The Causeway Cup that wasn't, 2020-2021
    Yes, thanks. Corrected. My math wasn't much better than my reading on that one. Thanks again.

    And CSUS schedule now includes Causeway Dual Meet.
  • Big Sky Scores
    I'm with Dr. Mike on this. Call this a "spring season plus." Take a breather and get ready for fall. One of the things Hawk said way way back when people were talking about a spring season was how hard it would be to play a spring season then turn right around and prepare for a fall season.
  • Big Sky Scores
    Today's other BIg Sky finals:

    Weber 19, Southern Utah 16. Weber was down 16-9 after three quarters.
    Idaho State 24, Idaho 22. It was Idaho 15, Idaho State 14 at the end of three.
    And of course, Cal Poly at Northern Arizona canceled.

    Next week has Idaho State at Weber State, Idaho at Eastern Washington and Northern Arizona at Southern Utah.

    Barring a COVID issue that ends the conference schedule.

    FWIW Montana apparently has scheduled home games against Central Washington next Saturday and Portland State on the 17th.
  • Off Season News
    (Better not end up at Oregon....)
  • Brooke Yanez and Oregon softball
    OK, so the (retired) attorney in me looked at Brooke's information on the Ducks' roster. The roster list has her prior schools as Buena Vista HS and UC Davis. https://goducks.com/sports/softball/roster
    The "full bio" never says anything like 'came to the Ducks after a successful sophomore season at UC Davis,' but does parenthetically note that a couple of prior marks, Single Game Career Highs and Career No-Hitters "include 2018-19 season at UC Davis."
    https://goducks.com/sports/softball/roster/brooke-yanez/10209

    So UC Davis gets three recognitions, but you have to look for them.
  • Brooke Yanez and Oregon softball
    Much as I wish people like Brooke would stay, I can't blame her for leaving for the opportunity to compete at that level. She has clearly shown she can do it. What few things are available to her in that sport (Olympics?) are more likely to happen from a Pac12 setting. Just think the Ducks could acknowledge her previous school.
  • Brooke Yanez and Oregon softball
    Oregon athletics owes UCDavis too much to be slighted like this. Does the name Mike Belotti sound familiar? And of course many of Belotti's assistants....
  • 2021 Men's NCAA Tournament
    I'm a Big 10 fan by genes and a midwest upbringing, but they need to limit their talk to wrestling this year.

    (Though I never feel too bad if An Ohio State University or Meech-i-gan go down.)
  • 2021 Men's NCAA Tournament
    And Iowa adds to the Big Ten woes...
  • WBB: #5 Missouri State (21-2) vs the Aggies (13-2) 4:30 pm PT, Monday, March 22nd
    Time for an upset in the Women’s NCAA. ALL of the top seeds won on Sunday.
  • 2021 Men's NCAA Tournament
    Read a couple of predictions on ESPN.com saying Illinois was going to take it all. Oooops! Big 10 was playing some good ball in the middle of the season, given that this is a weird season and most games were in-conference, but they are not doing well in the NCAA tourney. Ohio State, Purdue and now Illinois upset and WIsconsin trailing Baylor late.

    (But Iowa won the NCAA wrestling championship so order is restored in the world.)
  • 2021 Men's NCAA Tournament
    How about former D-2 Abilene Christian knocking off Texas?
  • Font size change
    I try to blame such things on the computer too. My kids aren't having it.

    Sorry, I got nothin'.
  • R.I.P. D2 football in California
    I think when I started the “student fees” were $68.50 per quarter and quickly jumped to a whopping $108.50. Probably in the $300.00 range by the time I graduated. No, we could not pay with a couple of chickens or a calf.

    But by the time of the D2 Football.com boards the tales of tuition-free or outright free-free education for California residents was a thing of the past.

    Of course someone can now do some research and prove just how much my memory is failing me.
  • No fan attendance-how are you holding up ?
    Looks like they River Cats weren't going to Texas this year anyway, and with the delayed opening they won't even play the Skeeters this season.
  • No fan attendance-how are you holding up ?
    When the PCL redoes its schedule...again...maybe you can get to Texas to see the River Cats play the Sugar Land Skeeters.

    This really sounds like a Disney movie.

    I love minor league nicknames.
  • No fan attendance-how are you holding up ?
    It is a small positive that restaraunts are looking for help, though it is probably part time and can't match unemployment benefits, at least for a while. The entire hospitality industry has been hit pretty hard. And no, let's not go too far down this road here.
  • No fan attendance-how are you holding up ?
    I have been a real fan of the cautious approach to this whole thing, including sports. Easy enough for me to do because I am retired, have a pension, and staying home is what I do best. Everytime I try to figure out a sports schedule, like everything else, it changes. We hope the cautious approach works, but I can sure understand COVID fatigue. Have received the shots, but feel like I am all dressed up with no place to go.

    Try to follow sports and as soon as someone establishes a schedule, it gets changed because your team or the opponent has COVID issues. Just pulled the River Cats schedule last night only to find that as soon as I hit 'Print' MLB told the minor leagues to bump the start of their schedules another month down the road. Who knew, other than Goags20172 that the minor leagues have completely overhauled their leagues. Perhaps Nashville, Omaha and Iowa weren't meant to be in the Pacific Coast League after all. The lesser sports I try to follow, (water polo, swimming, rugby...) are not competing at all. Hard to follow something as elusive as sports...and the whole season will have a big asterisk in any event.

    But the dog gets walked a lot.
  • R.I.P. D2 football in California
    And again, a hint of why I should not have gone down this path...

    The big difference between someone like Sochor and the D2 website tales about someone coming in from outside of the UC system to be an AD for three years, (besides Sochor being a legend who can do no wrong and entitled to whatever he got,) is that an outsider under that example would have a whopping 3 years of service with the university whereas Sochor had all those earlier years of coaching in addition to whatever time he spent as AD. I believe he was an assistant coach from 1967-1969, head coach from 1970-1988 and AD from 1989-91. (Wikipedia...) That's roughly 24 years with Davis. Might even have more service from his 4 or 5 seasons at S.F. State if there is reciprocity between the CSU and UC systems. Assume 24 years...and retiring at 2.5% per year...he's at 60%. The outsider would be at 7.5%.

    And yes there are arguments to be made about employees who finish strong for three years, set their three year look-back at that high level and then retire, allowing someone else to have their turn. Rumors, tales and stories abound about things like that....but we have gone too far from Aggie sports already.

    Another anecdote about rumors...I recall a discussion on the D2 football site many, many years ago in which someone from, I believe NDSU, commented that UC was tuition free to California residents. If those days ever existed, they were long gone by the time the comment was made. I did a quick unscientific look and concluded that in-state tuition at UC was more expensive than out-of-state tuition at NDSU.