I tried out the love tester at the Claim Jumper after my meal with my sister and her new fiancée. The light pointed to the highest spot, Uncontrollable. I think I need to go through that again. The urge to do so must be felt now. If the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then it must be true: I love the color red.
I have nothing but scathing remarks to say about our effort against USC in volleyball. To be honest, they wouldn’t stand a chance against Long Beach City.
I think my voice is coming back. Two weeks! Two frustrating weeks without my voice. Thank god the Fortnight of Silence is now silenced…for now.
I have heard of Cal State San Bernardino at least once or twice in my life. And that was when I was looking for the right place for me to get a college education after I was done with Long Beach City College. At San Bernardino, their athletic teams are called the Coyotes. They were established only recently, and they are younger than the beach by a few decades, so their enrollment is small, Division-II quality. As of this writing, they have never won a national championship in anything, but their men’s basketball team was poised to be the first from San Bernardino to bring home their first piece of real hardware.
Their head coach was Jeff Oliver, a Cal Poly grad who worked with then-head coach Larry Reynolds as an assistant before ascending to his current role. They had some good payback, defeating Humboldt State to get to the Elite Eight in Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield is home to the YMCA that welcomed basketball to the world via one James Naismith. Yesterday, they thumped Wingate by nearly 30 points, also scoring 100 in the process. Today they face the Bulldogs of Barton College. This school is small, with an enrollment of barely over 1,000. How this team is even Division II is beyond me. My high school has higher enrollment than this.
The kicker is that they are Division II’s “Beasts from the East,” having been seeded first in the East Regional, and winning it as well. If San Bernardino wins this game, they take on either Central Missouri or Winona State for all the marbles.
Unfortunately, they didn’t. They lost 80-79 to the Bulldogs. Which means: they fail basketball. Which also means: Who fucking cares?
Nice way to fail, Coyotes. Enjoy not getting a national championship in any sport for the next 100 years.
