Sports
LAST LOOK: THE GUY WHO TOOK MY INTRAMURAL SOCCER GAME TOO SERIOUSLY
I saw you taking practice shots, kicking the ball really hard but missing every time, even though there was no goalie. You were trying to impress the women, even though there’s never been a single recorded instance of a woman getting turned on by a man in a neon headband, tank top, blue short shorts and the orange shoes kicking a soccer ball really hard.
LONG BEACH ROLLER DERBY: A SUCCESS STORY FIGHTS FOR $URVIVAL
Long Beach Roller Derby nights at the Queen Mary Dome already feel like local tradition, but unless the league can raise $20,000 by early January to pay off the loan for its banked-turn track, it may become another Long Beach tradition lost.
BLANCHE DEATHEREAUX REDUX: FROM THE GET-GO, SHE WAS ‘BOUT IT
Sarah "Blanche Deathereaux" Scanlon was new to the game but became an instant star when Long Beach Roller Derby showed up 1 1/2 years ago. Yes, it does feel longer than that, perhaps because it feels so right. With the league seeking funds to get out of debt and stay alive, that's a good feeling to think about.
ROSA DEL TORO SELECTED BIG WEST CROSS COUNTRY ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
[Editor's note: Although GreaterLongBeach.com loves sports---love-love-loves 'em---so far it hasn't done much sports coverage. It doesn't feel good about that. But there is one sport so close to GreaterLongBeach.com's heart that it will always receive coverage ... and that sport is cross country. GreaterLongBeacy.com loves cross country---love-love-loves it. GreaterLongBeach.com is weird that way.] Long Beach State senior [...]
SKATE-O-RAMA IN 1970S: THE MEMORIES ARE GREAT–THE PHOTOS, NOT SO MUCH
"Growing up a block from Skate-O-Rama in the late ‘60s and ‘70s was a most memorable time for me," says Dale Lendrum, now 48, who lived near the intersection of Imperial Highway and Woodruff Avenue.. "At the time we didn’t have a city park nearby---Skate-O-Rama was a place to go for some fun and recreation. It was the Disneyland of Downey!”
TONIGHT’S LONG BEACH ROLLER DERBY BOUT IS SOLD OUT
All tickets have been sold for tonight’s Long Beach Roller Derby bout between the first-year Belmont Hot Broads and the defending champion Bixby Rollerettes at the Queen Mary Dome. Belmont made a name for itself at their debut bout on June 3, narrowly defeating the Terminal Island Tootsies, and a victory tonight would put the [...]
TO GET DIRECTIONS TO TORIITOWN, YA GOTTA TALK TO A DUDE FROM DOWNEY
Toriitown is a once-a-homestand place in the right-field pavilion of Angels Stadium where all things about Angels outfielder Torii Hunter are celebrated. But to know exactly when and where, you've got to talk to Downey resident Claude Bilodeau, who is Toriitown's founder ... and you could say, mayor.
LAST WEEK, NEXT WEEK WITH LONG BEACH STATE ATHLETICS
Long Beach State softball player Nalani St. Germain was named the university’s player of the week, hitting .643 to lead the 49ers to a 4-1 record and a tournament championship at the Campbell/Cartier Tournament in San Diego. St. Germain hit a 3-run homerun to lead LBSU past No. 24 Houston, one of three 49er wins [...]
IT’S OFFICIAL: LONG BEACH LOVES ROLLER DERBY!
The inaugural season of Long Beach’s first and only Roller Derby league ended on Saturday night with a wallop. More than 1,800 people packed the Spruce Goose Dome to watch the Bixby Rollerettes beat the Terminal Island Tootsies, 121-81, winning the Wreck Fest of Champions and the title of Long Beach Roller Derby Champions. Despite [...]
LONG BEACH ST. MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM PICKED SECOND IN PRE-SEASON POLL
Last year, the Long Beach State men’s basketball team came within one victory of a trip to the NCAA playoffs—a loss to UC Santa Barbara in the finals of the Big West Conference Tournament—and a 23-member panel of sports reporters expects more or less the same outcome this season. In a pre-season poll released Thursday, [...]
TRANSPLANT TALKIN’ TRASH IN DODGERTOWN: SO … HOW ‘BOUT THEM GIANTS?
We lugged that bottle of cheap champagne into the back yard, shook it up good and were drenched in a victory shower---which was cut short when the stuff got in my eyes. Hey, it hurts … in case you fans of the Dodgers or Angels or Padres were wondering.
IT’S LB FIGHT NIGHT, AKA THE FUNKY WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Another Long Beach Fight Night comes to the Long Beach City College Hall of Champions Gym on Sunday evening beginning at 4:30 p.m., and that always puts my head to humming songs from Tonio K.’s 1978 album, Life In The Foodchain---specifically, “The Funky Western Civilization.”
BLANCHE DEATHEREAUX: QUARTERBACK PRINCESS OF LONG BEACH ROLLER DERBY
“Some people just can't go up to someone they don't know and hit them or flip on top of them,” says Sarah ‘Blanche Deathereaux’ Scanlon, the team captain and jammer for the Retro Rollers of the Long Beach Roller Derby. “That's what got me excited once we actually started looking like roller derby players.”
