Ok, I know, I know, when I started writing about sports for Kings River Life, I said I was going to accentuate the positive. But I have something that’s been bugging me for a long time, and it’s time to get it off my chest.
I remember clearly the first time I saw Todd Croissant on a basketball court. It was probably 1991 or 1992 during warm-ups for a game at the Immanuel High School Gym. Todd was a freshman, playing on the varsity—a very rare thing then, as it is now. My first impression was, “this guy belongs on a basketball court.”
My first 1950’s Sci-Fi review was 1954’s Target Earth. This time I present for your consideration the second of the three movies from my childhood that scared the living cookies out of me, Indestructible Man, from 1956.
At the end of this article are instructions on how to enter for a chance to win 4 tickets to an upcoming Monsters Hockey home game!
In these financially challenging days we live in, families are looking for inexpensive entertainment options. If you have kids who love sports, I’d like to recommend an evening with the Fresno Monsters. The Monsters are Fresno’s NAHL Hockey team, and they play at one of the best Hockey venues anywhere, Selland Arena.
Welcome to a brand new feature here at Kings River Life! I am a fan of 1950s sci-fi movies. A big fan. I guess it’s a hereditary thing. My late father was a fan of the same movies, so I got an early start. Thanks to DVD, I can now watch almost every sci-fi movie from the fifties, and they’re as much fun now as they were back then -- maybe more so!
The Reedley College Football team’s post-season banquet was held on November 23rd. I wasn’t much looking forward to it, to be honest. I mean, what was there really to celebrate about a team with a 3-7 record, including a season-ending four-game losing streak? Shows you what I know. The banquet was one of the most uplifting and inspiring experiences of my 54 years on this earth, all because of one person: Jesse Lownsbury.
The Reedley College Football season was a story of streaks, and so it was appropriate that they ended the season with a 48-13 loss to Fresno City College Saturday afternoon at Ratcliff Stadium in Fresno. The Tigers opened the season with three straight losses.
Sports reporters, commentators and other so-called “experts” often try to determine a “turning point” in a particular sporting event. Often these turning points are subject to debate, but there’s no denying the turning point in the shellacking Reedley College suffered at the hands of the College of the Sequoias (COS) Giants Saturday night in Visalia.
I’ve been covering sports in the Valley for twenty-five years, and one of the things I’ve learned is that every successful sports program has people working behind the scenes who have as much impact on the team’s success as the star athletes.
The Reedley College Tigers saw their chances for post-season play go down in a shower of long passes Saturday afternoon, as they lost to Modesto Junior College 49-28 at Reedley High School Stadium.
The loss to the Pirates mean the best the Tigers can finish is 5-5 on the season, and that won’t make them bowl eligible.
