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TagsQ: What do Will Smith, Joe Montana and Wayne Gretzky share in common--something that will bring all three boldface names to Issaquah tonight?
A: All three have sons on the Oaks Christian High football team, which has flown up from Simi Valley, Calif. to play I-Town's Skyline High.
Will's son Trey (his oldest, by first wife Sheree Zampino, and the inspiration for his remake of "Just the Two of Us") is a junior wide receiver.
Joe's son Nick (youngest of four by current wife Jennifer Wallace, the model he met doing a razor commercial) is a senior quarterback.
Wayne's son Trevor (third of five by actress wife Janet Jones) is a junior quarterback; he backs up Nick.
The game, which will be televised nationally on ESPNU, has local football fans making sure to change out of sweatpants for two reasons: 1) Nick Montana is a UW recruit who's likely to eventually succeed Jake Locker as Huskies' quarterback. 2) The game matches two of the best high school teams in the nation. USA Today ranks Oaks...
The middle-aged black lady sitting one row below me in the Memorial Stadium grandstand yesterday let loose a long sigh after another Garfield pass fell incomplete.
"Ever since I've known Garfield football," she said, "which has been, like, centuries--they can't throw!"
A perspicacious observation, which mirrors my own experience with the Bulldogs' gridiron efforts. (Granted, one former Garfield QB is now in the NFL, but from what I'm told he was more of a runner in high school.)
So how odd then that Garfield's first touchdown, which may end up as the most entertaining football play I'll see all season, was a pass.
On third down, Bulldogs running back Valentino Coleman received a screen pass at his own 25 yard line and began an Odyssey to the end zone. First, you must understand that Coleman is 6-1, 240 lbs. Not so much a lithe sprinter gliding through space as a lumberer who's going to perk up the seismograph.
Coleman was big enough to break through the two arm tackles the Inglemoor linebackers attempted,...
Garfield High junior Tony Wroten, who if you've read this blog even in just the last five days you'll know is the #1 basketball player in the country, has decided to play football this season. His prep football career started out well last Saturday, catching 7 passes for 63 yards and TD, and making two interceptions. Garfield won the game, their first win in two seasons.
Wroten, who's about 6-4 and can jump out of the gym, will play his second game tonight when Garfield plays Inglemoor at 5 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. Inglemoor is 0-1, having lost their season opener to Juanita.
Wroten isn't the Bulldogs hoopster excelling on the football team--basketball guard Pierre Wright had 97 yards rushing in the season opener. Des'Juan Newton, another member of the hoops team, plays football as well.
Inglemoor, picked to finish third in their division by Kingco coaches, will be a tougher test for the Bulldogs.
If you do go to the game, stick around for the 7:45 p.m. nightcap: Skyline vs. Ballard. It won't be much of a game,...
Last Friday night, while you were enjoying your wine bar or experimental theater or ginormous music festival, I went in search of the pleasures of small-town America: A Friday night high school rivalry football game.
Montesano and Elma have played 148 times
I found it in Montesano, a logging town of 3,000 that's halfway between Olympia and the coast. Sitting at Geppetto's Sports Bar on Pioneer Avenue before the game, I overheard the type of conversation that assured me I was truly in a small town.
One bar patron turns to another.
Patron #1: "Hear about Bob Timmons*?"
Patron #2: "Nope."
Patron #1: "Dead!"
Of cancer, he related, and so the small-town gossip went, touching on various forms of cancer suffered by people in town.
The guy sitting next to me leans in and says "So, how do you like it? This is what you get in a small town--everyone knows everybody's business."
They even knew my business. I challenge anyone to sit in a bar in Montesano, Washington, and not have your business known by the time...
I'll try to do this every Monday--here's how the city high schools fared this weekend and where they stand.
KINGCO 4A SCHOOLS (Seattle only)
Ballard (0-1) L 0-38 @ Liberty. Next: Thursday @ Skyline (Yikes).
Garfield (1-0) W 12-6 vs. Franklin. Next: Thursday vs. Inglemoor @ Memorial Stadium.
Roosevelt (0-1) L 0-14 vs. Rainier Beach. Next: Friday @ Sammamish.
METRO SCHOOLS (Seattle only)
Blanchet (0-1) L 0-17 vs. Everett. Next: Friday @ Renton.
Chief Sealth (0-1) L 0-27 @ Sammamish. Next: Friday vs. Rainier Beach.
Cleveland (0-0) DNP. Next: Friday vs. Ingraham.
Franklin (0-1) L 6-12 vs. Garfield. Next: Friday vs. West Seattle.
Ingraham (0-0) DNP. Next: Friday vs. Cleveland.
Lakeside (0-1) L 21-41 vs. Lakewood. Next: Saturday vs. Coupeville.
Nathan Hale (0-1) L 9-38 vs. Black Hills. Next: Friday vs. Granite Falls.
O'Dea (1-0) W 19-15 vs. Capital @ Qwest. Next: Saturday @ Bothell.
Rainier Beach (1-0) W 14-0 vs. Roosevelt. Next: Friday vs. Chief Sealth.
Seattle Prep (1-0) W 14-7 @ Granite Falls. Next: Friday vs. Cedarcrest....
Garfield High won for the first time in nearly two years (more on CDNews), and only the second time since 2005, beating rivals Franklin 14-6. Tony Wroten, a junior who's one of the top basketball recruits in the nation, caught an 11-yard touchdown pass and had two interceptions in the game. Pierre Wright, another basketball player, had 97 yards rushing.
Wroten's had a fun couple of weeks--on August 22 he played in the Boost Mobile Elite 24 game in New York City, as did Kentwood High's Josh Smith. Wroten and Smith even got a little run at Madison Square Garden as part of their visit to NYC. Smith, incidentally, is also playing football this year, though I can't tell if he played in Kentwood's season-opening win.
Garfield's next game is Thursday at 5 p.m. at Memorial Stadium vs. Inglemoor. I may try to catch that!
Photo courtesy of indefatigable Neighborlogs intern Lucas Anderson.
M's beat the A's 7-4, getting their runs on mammoth two-run homers by Gooters, Bill Hall, and Johjima, respectively, and then a very rare bases-loaded suicide squeeze by Gooters in the ninth. Snell was uninspiring (5 IP, 3 ER, and it's against Oakland) but got the win.
Griffey says he wants to come back. Sort of. Read for yourself. (Hey, I'd like to play for the Mariners next year too--I can tickle really well I promise--but I don't think they're going to offer me a contract just to be nice.)
Seahawks demolished the Raiders. Final was 31-21, but only because of two late Raider TDs. The big story was Seahawks QB Mike Teel, the rookie out of Rutgers. Teel's stats: 11-19, 148 yards, 2 TDs. Have we finally found a third-string QB decent enough to allow Seneca Wallace to play some receiver? If not now, when? Wallace is 29 years old now--he's not getting any faster.
Storm lost, snapping a six-game winning streak. Lauren Jackson's still sitting out with her back injury.
High school football started last night--...
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