Sports

POLO: UCI finishes 5th in the conference with wins over Pepperdine and UCSB, but a loss to Cal.

VOLLEYBALL: Two losses to end the season may have cost Anteaters an NCAA Tournament bid.

basketball: ’Eaters go 1-2, beating Fairleigh Dickinson but falling to UTSA and Eastern Kentucky.

If you haven’t heard by now, there have been efforts made to construct a new stadium in Los Angeles. Edward P. Roski, a part-owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Kings, has announced plans for the stadium on the northern side of the interchange of state routes 57 and 60 with the purpose of attracting an NFL team back to the Los Angeles region.

VIOLENCE: Western media does poor job of covering the soccer related violence during World Cup qualifying.

V-BALL: Girls end Big West conference schedule by beating Fullerton, but losing to Long Beach State.

BASEBALL: Three game intersquad scrimmages showcase the new team to UCI, with free food to boot.

CLIPPERS: The argument for Los Angeles Clippers fandom and the current state of affairs.

This Week: Con UCI Football. Check Last Week’s Issue for the Pro Side.

I have been a journalist for about the last six years of my life. In that time, one aspect of the job never seems to get any easier for me. The interview is still the most difficult task of being a journalist. Going up to someone you don’t know and asking them a question that they probably will not like, it still scares me to death. However, in sports journalism, the interview is a must of almost every story.

To just about everyone else in the world, Wednesday night’s basketball game between UC Irvine and Loyola Marymount University was a mostly inconsequential early season non-conference match-up. But for my high school bud Pappy and me, it was our own personal Super Bowl.