Freelance😬 Prep Writer; 2007 McDonald’s All-American asst. coach West team; former boys basketball 🏀 head coach at Valley Torah, Stoneridge Prep and Malibu
How funny is this?: Doing a major deep Spring cleaning and found this old detention slip I gave Nick Young almost 16 years ago at Cleveland High in Reseda: Made sure I kept original copy because Nick signed it!!!!!!!!!!
Total mob scene in bleachers at hart high in Santa Clarita: hart fans and Santa Clarita valley residents going bananas with Kanye west watching s. Cyn. And hart: also in stands Scottie pippen.. Derek fisher.. Kenyon martin
Former NBA and UCLA standout and ESPN NBA analyst and Crespi parent Matt Barnes offering some broadcasting tips to Harvard-Westlake’s excellent livestream student broadcaster Jake Lancer
LOL 😂
Camarillo’s Jaime Jaquez made a 3-pointer with .6 seconds remaining to give UCLA a wild 75-72 win over Arizona St.: still made time for a pic with his beautiful mom: great kid!!!!!!
Frank Burlison (basketball guru and Hall of Famer) and Julie
16th wedding anniversary in Athens, Greece
Talk about nailing it with scouting and evaluation, way to go Frank!!!!!!!!
Calabasas’ Oregon bound pass catcher Mycah Pittman wants nothing more than to beat unbeaten Oaks Christian next week in a game that will be televised live by Fox Sports Prime Ticket
How about the awesomeness of Viewpoint coach JJ Prince
Three really good players, all starters, transferred out
Team is 0-4; leaders are a sophomore and a freshman
And coach Prince reports his scores and stat leaders every game no matter what
He’s awesome. Plain and simple
Sierra Canyon boys basketball 🏀 current active Div. 1
Cassius Stanley-Duke
Scotty Pippen-Vanderbilt
Christian Koloko-Arizona
Duane Washington-Ohio St.
Adili Kuerban-Kennesaw St.
Cody Riley-UCLA
Remy Martin-Arizona St.
Adam Seiko-San Diego St.
T. McBride-Cornell
D. Ramsey-UCSB
Gonzaga coach Mark Few has to be smiling ear-to-ear and resting easy at night knowing these two guys are coming next year
Liberty’s Julian Strawther and Rancho Chr.’s Dominick Harris
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Former Simi Valley and Oxy football student-athlete Matt Matulaitis is on his way to Washington DC. He was registered in the bone marrow database during an Oxy fundraiser and he is going to donate to a total stranger he matched.
Not only did ECR veteran and City Champ coach Joe Wyatt help lead the Conquistadors to an upset win over Birmingham, he also helped clean the gym: This guy does it all: Mr. Yi needs to get him a raise
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Just met the unofficial Mr. Burbank: His first name is Ed: World War II veteran: 93 years old: collects all the cans and bottles at Burbank High and donates the $ back to the athletic teams: he says it’s his way of giving back and he gets his exercise in: wonderful human being
Two back-to-back Calif. Open Div. State Champions from Sierra Canyon: Duke bound Cassius Stanley and Vanderbilt bound Scotty Pippen, Jr.: Both are ready to go for the BallIsLife All-American game at Long Beach Convention Center
Incoming freshmen Nico Mannion and Josh Green and Kentucky transfer Jemarl Baker are the big three for the “West Coast Elite Arizona Wildcats”: will join Stone Gettings, Ira Lee and Matt Weyand
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Let’s gooooooooo
Six pounds: nine ounces: 19.5 inches: Meet the newest Musketeer: Thomas Scott Moore: congratulations to Moorpark Boys Basketball 🏀 coach Ryan Moore and new mom Elizabeth: Swords Up!!!
More huge breaking news today: girls basketball 🏀
Chaminade girls basketball 🏀 coach Kelli Dimuro is the new coach at Cal Lutheran. This on the heels of the men’s program hiring Crespi coach Russell White
Cal Lutheran raiding the Mission League
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Keith Higgins is the pick to be the next men’s basketball 🏀 coach at Moorpark College: part-time position: former Compton College head coach and Reseda HS head coach. Higgins son will be a senior guard at Chaminade
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Prayers and thoughts to Jahmel (former Notre Dame and Sierra Canyon guard) and Immanuel Taylor (Village Christian guard)
Dad is not with us anymore
Great family, great dad, great kids
Daily News coverage area boys basketball top 10 post fall leagues
1. Sierra Canyon
2. Harvard-Westlake
3. Notre Dame
4. Birmingham
5. Valencia
6. Crespi
7. Taft
8. Heritage Chr.
9. Calabasas
10. El Camino Real
others: Oak Park, West Ranch, Granada Hills, Alemany, Chaminade
Somebody please explain
No fans at UCLA
No fans at USC
No sports after school with LAUSD (but PE in the gym is okay, LOL)
And 80,000 plus stuffed into SoFi is completely okay for LA Rams games
Please explain, please
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Definition of SuperWoman: Burroughs Girls Basketball 🏀 coach Vicky Oganyan
Coaches girls team at Burroughs
Teaches 4 classes at Burroughs
Playing JC ball this year Glendale College
Taking 12 units of classes at Glendale College to be eligible to play and move up on pay scale
Prayers and thoughts go out to Paraclete boys basketball coach Newton Chelette
Having some health issues, he’s in the hospital
Great guy, the mayor of the High Desert
How about Notre Dame boys basketball 🏀
beats 3 open Section winners (Dougherty Valley, Modesto Christian, St. Augustine), Sierra Canyon three times, Bishop Montgomery on the road, goes 2-1 in SS open pool play and STILL doesn’t make the open regional
Ridiculous
Boys basketball 🏀 season is less than a month away: Daily News coverage area Top-10
1. Sierra Canyon
2. Harvard-Westlake
3. Heritage Chr.
4. Chaminade
5. Santa Clarita Chr.
6. Birmingham
7. Taft
8. Crespi
9. Oak Park
10. Valencia
Others: Providence, ECR, Saugus, Oaks Chr.,
Cal State. Northridge men’s basketball 🏀 is 12-3 overall and 3-0 in the Big West
And beat UCLA on the road
And gave Stanford (a team that beat Arizona) everything it could handle in the season opener
Andy Newman and staff, absolutely awesome job
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Ryan Turell announced that he’s committing to Yeshiva University in Manhattan. Turell turned down 5 D1 offers to attend one of the few Jewish U's in the country. Turell scored over 2800 points, wasCIF POY in 2017, a McDonalds AA Nom this year & will be a 3 time 1st team All-CIF
The new boys basketball 🏀 coach at Poly HS in Sun Valley is Joe Wyatt
Wyatt previously coached at ECR and won an Open Div. Championship there after taking over for David Rebibo
Expect his son little JD to enroll
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Jen’s 40th surprise birthday 🎉 party luncheon today: Maggiano’s in Woodland Hills: Jen does it all for our family, keeps it all together and moving: thankful and grateful: she is A-plus 100 💯 percent keeper
Almost 30 years ago these two won a natty at UCLA
Tyus Edney made the game winner at the buzzer against Missouri
Lorenzo Romar was an asst. Jim Harrick
Edney now an asst. at San Diego
Romar now head coach at Pepperdine in his second stint there
Pollon Area Brand New Top 10 through Dec. 3:
1. Crespi (6-0)
2. Oak Park (6-2)
3. Sierra Canyon (1-0)
4. Taft (5-0)
5. Harvard-Westlake (4-1)
6. Alemany (2-2)
7. West Ranch (4-0)
8. Camarillo (0-1)
9. Notre Dame (4-1)
10. Campbell Hall (5-1)
How about Corona Centennial and Josh Giles
Ended Sierra Canyon’s 20-plus playoff game winning streak in 2021 for Open title
Loses Boswell, wins the 2022 Open title
Graduated Dent, wins the 2023 Open title
First ever Open Div. Champion three consecutive years
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ND’s Dusty Stromer
2020
Avg. 13 and helps team set state record for most 3’s in a season and 1st 20+ win season in 18 years
2022
Avg. 20 helps team win 1st Mission League title in 20 years, first Open division selection
2023
Avg. 18 and leads team to first ever state title.
one of the top asst. coaches in so cal has to be cornelius holden right now a bretnwood; will be making his 6th finals appearance on the bench saturday; four trips with chaminade and now two with brentwood
Mission League boys basketball 🏀
Simply the best league out there
Harvard-Westlake: Open Division champ
Notre Dame: Division 1 champ
Alemany: Division 3-A champ
Sierra Canyon: Open Division participant
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This awesome girl turns 14 today!!!
Have an amazing birthday, Jayden
Couldn’t be more proud: straight A’s in school and doing awesome with softball 🥎 and volleyball 🏐
Gotta give it up for Windward and Coach Colin Pfaff (one of the true real real good guys in the biz)
2nd place finish in one of the top leagues in So. Cal with a super young team that came together for a 22-5 record after losing 3 starters last year to graduation
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A major shout out has to go to Birmingham boys basketball 🏀 coach Nic Halic
Taft was given a technical foul Wed. night for dunking during warm ups
Halic instructed his free throw shooter to miss both shots on purpose so the game started 0-0
Taft won 55-54
Halic is a good guy
UCLA latest school to offer clutch 6-6 2026 Tajh Ariza (St. Bernard/Playa del Rey CA). One of the finest freshmen on West Coast & nation is son of long-time NBA vet Trevor Ariza who played at UCLA
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Sierra Canyon graduate 🎓 Marvin Bagley III: 2017 California Gatorade state player of the year and 2018 NBA draft expected top 3 pick: participated in graduation ceremonies today
Boys basketball champ games
Harv.-West. vs. Roosevelt
Notre Dame vs. Windward
Rolling Hills Prep vs. St. Anthony
LB Poly vs. Marina
St. Bonnie vs. La Habra
Alemany vs. Bosco Tech
YULA vs. Cerritos
Temecula Valley vs. Northview
El Segundo vs. Castaic
Firebaugh vs. Big Bear