{"id":4902,"date":"2009-01-25T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/view-from-the-myd-mbb-vs-riverside\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T07:52:00","slug":"view-from-the-myd-mbb-vs-riverside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/view-from-the-myd-mbb-vs-riverside","title":{"rendered":"View From The &#8216;Myd: MBB vs. Riverside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo2827663.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p> <!--StartFragment-->     <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\">Welcome to View From the &#8216;Myd, a  new series meant to help those who couldn&#8217;t make the game feel at home, and to  point out funny stuff that those in attendance may have missed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\">First, we would be remiss if we  didn&#8217;t take a moment to recognize the accomplishments of the Long Beach State  49er Dance Team, who are recently returned from Florida, where they went and  won a national championship.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;  font-family:LucidaGrande\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/P1000992.jpg\"   \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\">Don&#8217;t believe me?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Check out the hardware:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;  font-family:LucidaGrande\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/IMG_0634.jpg\"   \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\">That said, it&#8217;s probably pretty  obvious that this column won&#8217;t be as entertaining when the men&#8217;s basketball  team doesn&#8217;t win, which was the case against the Highlanders last night.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Aside from the struggles rebounding and  shooting, perhaps the biggest indicator of the team&#8217;s youth came towards the  tail end of a TV timeout, when the 49ers began walking back on the floor.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Both refs stared at them and then waved  them back to the bench, shouting, &#8220;Not&hellip;yet&hellip;&#8221;<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Hopefully within a few years, Long  Beach State players will be<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>a little  more accustomed to televised games!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\">Speaking of the television crews,  it was pretty nice to see all the Fox Sports cameras there&mdash;didn&#8217;t get any  photos, but they must have had ten lenses in the building.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>JJ does a great job with his equipment,  but I definitely wondered if they&#8217;d really miss just <i>one <\/i><span style=\"font-style:normal\">camera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\">Not having watched the broadcast  yet (it&#8217;s recorded on my DVR but it&#8217;s hard to get juiced to watch a replay of  an ugly loss at one in the morning) I can&#8217;t comment on whether or not the Fox  crew did a good job, but I was happy to see they trained one of their legion of  cameras on a deserving face, as Mike Weathers was interviewed at halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\"><span style=\"font-family:LucidaGrande;  color:#666666\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/IMG_6092.jpg\"   \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\">The only downside was that the  venerable Perry Moore, former Athletic Director at The Beach (from 1974-82) and  the team&#8217;s biggest fan, was booted from his usual courtside seat to make room  for the Fox guys.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>He didn&#8217;t seem  to mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\">That&#8217;s about it for this  game&mdash;should have plenty more to talk about from the Fullerton game on Thursday,  since Tex Winter will be there, and school will be back in session so I imagine  attendance will be up (listed at 2,873 for tonight).<span style=\"mso-spacerun:  yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>For now, I&#8217;ll just ask this: is the Pyramid being taken over  by children?!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\"><span style=\"font-family:LucidaGrande;  color:#666666\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/P1010009.jpg\"   \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops:184.65pt\"><i>If you were at the game and  saw anyone or anything that I missed, leave it in the comment section!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>     <!--EndFragment-->                 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to View From the &#8216;Myd, a new series meant to help those who couldn&#8217;t make the game feel at home, and to point out funny stuff that those in attendance may have missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}