San Gabriel Valley

Super Bowl LI just happened this past Sunday. The Atlanta Falcons v. the New England Patriots. The Falcons started off strong in the first half ending it with them leading 21-3. Coming into the 3rd quarter, Atlanta scored a touchdown on their first drive, but the Patriots came brought a fight. New England tied up with Atlanta by the end of the 4th quarter, 28-28. In overtime, the Patriots scored and won the game, 34-28. The producers of Super Bowl LI did a great job overall. Now it’s my turn to…

fishing season. The day after the celebration was all business, and the ship sailed south constantly through the night and days only to stop for more supplies in San Diego. After San Diego, their first stop was in Cabo San Lucas, where they stop to have their papers examined. From there on, it was straight ahead into the Sea of Cortez. From Cabo San Lucas, the expedition leads up the western shoreline of Mexico. The crew stopped almost every day to row the small retrieval skiff into a reef or…

My mother tells the story how I fell in love with dance by starting by describing the first time I saw the Nutcracker ballet. I pointed to the stage and said, “I want to do that.” I was a toddler and I found my passion. From that moment all the way to my freshman year of college, I thrived on the dedication and joy that ballet brought to my life. Spending my dance career from age three to nineteen studying ballet, I decided to expand my dance training. Trying out for my college’s dance team…

Raelyn Hoffmann Davis Purple 1 20 April, 2016 Mark McGwire Breaks the Home Run Record September 8th, 1998; many of you may remember this date by a birthday or an anniversary, but this day was more than that. This date was a great day in history where a hero was born and a legend was created. September 8th, 1998 represents the day that Mark McGwire broke the record for the most home runs in a single season. “The 1998 Major League Baseball home run chase in Major League Baseball was the race…

The Lifelong Journey To World Championships Albert Bluford “Rube” Walker was born May 16th, 1926 in Lenoir into a poor family. His father would bring home string every day from his job and wrap it around a golf ball until it was the size of a baseball so the children would have baseballs to play with. Despite not having a legitimate, so to speak, baseball to play with Walker showed potential in his childhood. Walker grew up a hardworking individual working on his family’s farm in order to…

Alabama (1-0) – A convincing win over the USC Trojans keeps the Crimson Tide at the top of the list. Alabama found its quarterback in true freshmen Jalen Hurts. Hurts tallied 150 total yards and four touchdowns in his first college football game. The Crimson Tide defense, as always, was spectacular. They limited the Trojans to 92 yards in the first half and showed off incredible speed at the linebacker and safety positions. Needless to say, Lane Kiffin was very happy in his return against his…

Who do you think is the best NBA team between the Cleveland Cavaliers vs Golden State Warriors? Im sure you picked the Cavaliers since they were the NBA champions last year. Now i'm sure you're thinking, now how is she going to see which team is the best. The way I'll show you is by facts about each team and their stats. But before we learn about who is the best we will learn more about the great game of basketball. The game of basketball first started by a man named Dr. James Naismith in…

When Justin Turner smacked the game-winning home run for the Dodgers on Sunday night, announcers, sportswriters, bloggers and fans all called it the same thing: a “walk-off.” Unknown as recently as the 1970s and 1980s, the term “walk-off” for a game-ending hit has become as comfortable a part of the baseball lexicon as “balls” and “strikes.” And it’s spreading. The term’s first published citation was in July 1988, according to William Safire, who was The New York Times’s longtime language…

Everyone wants to be successful, who would not want to be acknowledged? A lot of people do not want to put in the very hard work it takes to be successful, and some people are just lucky enough to be born into success. My definition of success is someone who works hard all day every day and actually earns their fame and fortune. Someone who gets up early in the morning to train and work hard for what it is that they want, whether it is ambitions, or riches, or recognition, or to just be able…

Baseball is in my blood. Like the light hair and eyes I inherited from my father, and the hot Italian temper I got from my mother, through my veins a love of baseball runs. Until recently, where my passion for the sport came from I was not sure. Sometime, I thought it began long ago, on summer trips to Fenway Park, when my family would drive in our oversized Chevy to Boston, park in a garage near Government Center, and take the T out to the ballpark. As I grew older and more accustomed to our…