Sporting Life

I was really excited about the Sharks trading for Brian Campbell. After watching this video, I’m positive Lord Stanley is coming to San Jose.

Will Farrell has yet another sports comedy coming out this weekend with the ABA parody “Semi-Pro.” These movies always seem to good for about four funny quotes but you have to sit through an hour and 40 minutes of Farrell playing dumb to get them. The Onion reports that the NHL is offering him a ton of money to make a stupid hockey film.
Farrell is promoting “Semi-Pro” a ton on ESPN, including a segment with him playing horse against Bill Walton. I think Walton is actually funnier then Farrell (for proof, check out this clip of Walton making verbal love to Boris Diaw), and it seems Farrell may actually be a better basketball player than Walton. Also, if you’ve never seen Frank Caliendo’s impression of Walton, please watch this.

The Knights boys and Seahawks men’s basketball teams got a little ink in the Feb. 18 issue of Sports Illustrated (Dale Earnhardt Jr. is on the cover). The schools are listed in a story about the Dribble-Drive Motion offense they run variations of. The online version of the story (here) doesn’t have the list, but it’s definitely worth a read. The Sentinel has done a couple of similar stories on Soquel and Cabrillo recently. Last year, Ryan Phillips wrote this piece on the fast-break trend around basketball. I did another story looking at some of the offenses in the area a couple of weeks ago.

As promised, here are my picks for the girls teams in a hypothetical Santa Cruz County All-Star game.

North County draws from Santa Cruz, Harbor, SLV, Scotts Valley and Soquel. South County draws from Aptos, Watsonville, Pajaro Valley, St. Francis and MVC.

NORTH COUNTY
Starters
Guard: Sarah Takahashi, Santa Cruz
Guard: Hannah Passafuime, Soquel
Forward: Rachel Gregory, SLV
Forward: Caroline Sayer, Scotts Valley
Center: Olive Kersey, Harbor
Reserves
Malia Santos, Santa Cruz
Trisha Davila, Soquel
Alex Price, Scotts Valley

SOUTH COUNTY
Starters
Guard: Lindsey Sotomayor, Aptos
Guard: Annette Ruvalcaba, Watsonville
Forward: Rochelle Welsh, St. Francis
Forward: Molly Rank, MVC
Center: Katherine Brown, St. Francis
Reserves
Sarah Kulich, Watsonville
Janelle Nakamoto, Watsonville
Jessica Steif, Aptos

Who wants to make these All-Star games happen?

With the NBA All-Star Game coming up in two weeks, I thought it would be fun to make up a Santa Cruz County all-star game. We’ll have one team representing North County and the other from South County.

The North draws from Santa Cruz, Harbor, SLV, Scotts Valley and Soquel. The South draws from Aptos, Watsonville, Pajaro Valley, St. Francis and MVC.

Here are my picks for the boys teams:

NORTH COUNTY
Starters
Guard: Felipe Mendez, Soquel
Guard: Evan Fletscher, Scotts Valley
Forward: Daniel Cross, Soquel
Forward: Justin Hightower, Santa Cruz
Center: Cameron Karjala, Harbor
Reserves
Nick Beevers, SLV
Quinn Gruber, Harbor
Andrew Mosgrove, Soquel

SOUTH COUNTY
Starters
Guard: Robert Carrancho, Watsonville
Guard: Ryan Rocha, Aptos
Forward: Kraig Mitchell, Watsonville
Forward: Zach Scurich, St. Francis
Center: Daniel Johnston, Aptos
Reserves
Justin Contreras, Pajaro Valley
Dominic Delfino, Watsonville
Nick Ingram, Aptos

Whom am I leaving out. I’ll make up a girls team early next week.