At Marina Vista Park on Saturday children played flag football with parents cheering from the sideline. Running and laughing and falling down in big tangled heaps. Who was winning? Who was losing? Who cared? They played for the fun.
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Dust Plus: Beating CSU Fullerton, Sweethearts of Soccer & Midnight Mania
Notes on My Napkin Time—(too many people and places to report on and too much TV tape to rewind.) While soccer is well beyond being a boutique sport, women’s volleyball has the history; tradition and crowd count in its favor.
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Grand Prix Tickets Now On Sale
Tickets for the 38th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach are now on sale. Tickets for the annual event, set to run April 13-15, 2012 remain unchanged from 2011. The event draws an estimated 180,000 visitors to the streets of downtown Long Beach.
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Ten Long Beach State Men’s Basketball Games to be Televised During 2011-12 Season
Ten Long Beach State men’s basketball games will be televised this season, with five of them coming as part of the Big West Conference’s television package.
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Dust Plus: Titans and Niners, Build it and They May or May Not Come
Now when we consider a Fullerton vs. Long Beach match in the autumn (this outdoor one comes Sunday on George Allen Field, the practice home of 49er football) you used to think about the oblate spheroid of olden days not a round diamond-studded soccer ball.
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LBCC Football: Craighead, Payne Named SCFA West Conference Players of the Week
Long Beach City College (LBCC) sophomore quarterback Ryan Craighead and sophomore wide receiver Travon Payne were named Southern California Football Association (SCFA) West Conference Co-Offensive Players of the Week after the pair led the Vikings to a 54-47 win over Los Angeles Pierce College on Saturday.
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Dust Plus: We’ve Got it All, M-O-M, Apple Pie, and Road Trips
Necessity is the mother of invention; Maria is the mother of our volleyball setter. Nadia is the mother of Adrianna and the mother of soccer comebacks. Translated, the hot sporting moments this fall are WOW upside down, or MOM.
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Long Beach State Weekly Wednesday Basketball Coaches Tour Starts this Week
The fifth-annual Weekly Wednesday Basketball Coaches Tour begins tomorrow, Wednesday September 28, at the Beach Club Sports Bar and Grill in Long Beach. The first tour stop will feature head men’s coach Dan Monson and head women’s coach Jody Wynn who ill be previewing the 2011-12 seasons for both squads.
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Dust Plus: Notes on My Napkin, The “Realignment” Edition
The first of the alignments is on your dinner plans for Friday night since there is a very attractive Beach sporting double header that day starting with women’s soccer hosting UNLV at 4 p.m. on George Allen Field and ending in the Mike Walter Pyramid when that never shy state school, UC Santa Barbara, visits at 7 p.m.
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Hanging in with High Hopes and We Haven’t Even Started Hoops
One of the fan favorite marketing promotions in the Pyramid is the scoreboard game where a kid wins by following the bouncing ball with the LB logo. Last weekend the kid actually found it, ignoring the usually good advice from the Beach Pep Band, and walked home the proud owner of some sort of sandwich. Other bouncing ball results, well not so good.