The PASL-Pro North American Championships begin tonight at the Del Mar Arena with the quarterfinals (watch every game LIVE here on 619Sports.Net starting at 5pm!), and the San Diego Sockers will be waiting for the winner between Cincinnati and Mexico City in Friday’s semifinal.
40-year-old midfielder Paul Wright, the only active Socker to have played on their last championship team (the MSL title in 1991-92), joined 619 Sports this week at Sockers’ practice to talk about his quest to return the Sockers’ name to glory. This interview will also be played at halftime of our live Sockers broadcast on Friday, but 619 Sports fans get an early look after the jump: Continue Reading →
by Chris Ello on November 12, 2009
Being as you San Diego State sports fans say you don’t go to games because the product has been poor over the last decade or two, what’s going to be your excuse to not attend the Aztecs’ women’s basketball games this season?
Inconvenienced? Sorry, that won’t work since SDSU plays its games on campus at Viejas Arena, where by the way, it went undefeated last season. Cost? Please. You can take the whole family to a game — and probably grab a couple of hot dogs and a coke — for under $25-dollars.
Don’t really like women’s basketball? Well, just remember that it was the great John Wooden who said that the women are the only ones who actually still play the game the way it was intended to be played. And under Beth Burns, widely regarded as the finest coach anywhere in the city in any sport, you can be assured that her team does play the right way, along with playing as hard for 40 full minutes as any team you’ll see.
There’s no star power. Really? The Aztecs feature senior guard Jene Morris, who just so happens to be on the NCAA’s Preseason All-American team and has been named the Preseason Player of the Year in the Mountain West Conference. Alongside her is point guard Quenese Davis, who in just three seasons, is already far and away SDSU’s all-time assists leader. And underneath is junior center Paris Johnson, who was a two-time CIF Section Player of the Year while she was at San Diego High School.
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