Sports

Winter has been cruel for Acorn high school sports teams in the playoffs. Calabasas High’s boys’ basketball team, the Marmonte League champions, lost to Crespi 75-63 in the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 first round last weekend. Boys’ basketball teams Oaks Christian (Division 2AA), Thousand Oaks (3AA) and Newbury Park Adventist (5AA) also faltered in the opening round. In girls’ basketball, […]

There’s no game plan for the unpredictability of love. Defensive shift can’t put anyone in the right place to snare Cupid’s arrows. No trick play makes it easier to gather up the courage to ask out that special someone. Taking a knee won’t make butterflies stop flapping wildly before popping the big question. Only by chance does a coach find […]

Bill Spooner remembers his first day in the NBA like it was yesterday, or as he calls it, a hundred years ago. Naturally, he can’t recall every detail. “The first quarter, I didn’t even know where I was,” Spooner said. The referee was working the season opener between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks on Nov. 3, 1989. […]

Less than a year ago, Pepperdine University tweeted a photo of a young Lorenzo Romar with the words “Welcome Back.” Romar, who previously coached Pepperdine’s men’s basketball team from 1996 to 1999, had short hair and a neatly trimmed mustache in the photo, which was attached to the March 12 announcement of his return as Waves head coach. The 60-year-old […]

In a tightly contested Coastal Canyon League, extra time was needed to decide a champion. It took an additional eight minutes for Agoura High’s girls’ soccer team, formerly of the Marmonte League, to beat rival Oak Park 1-0 on Jan. 30 to seize the Coastal Canyon title. Celeste Schreifels, an Agoura junior, scored the golden goal on an assist from […]

The Lions stay busy when they’re not feasting on foes on the pitch. Oaks Christian High’s girls’ soccer players, who earned a trip to the CIF-Southern Section Division 2 playoffs with a 13-2-1 overall record, including 6-2 in the Marmonte League, also dazzle in the classroom. Thirteen of 17 players boast a GPA above 3.5. Oaks Christian head coach Sebastian […]

Cyrus Sarkary is a star in a galaxy of transcendent supernovas. If Moorpark’s Drake London and Camarillo’s Jaime Jaquez Jr. are the John Coltrane and Miles Davis of the Coastal Canyon League high school boys’ basketball scene, then Agoura’s Sarkary is the brilliant but underrated Eric Dolphy. The 5-foot-10, 150-pound Sarkary doesn’t have the size to play above the rim […]

I know what you’re thinking. “Jorrey? What’s he doing on my sports page? Doesn’t he have some obscure land-use policy to be hate-tweeting about?” Lest we forget, I’m a battle-tested newsman who got my start in The Acorn’s sports section, back when my hairline still made the frame. Heck, I was reporting on Simi Valley- Royal football games when Appelbaum […]

Ryan “The Lion” Lilley stepped barefoot onto the blood-red carpet and walked toward the cage in the center of the arena. He marched in like a Spartan, inching toward destiny as 7kingZ’s “My World Now” blared from the loudspeakers of The Forum in Inglewood. “They found winning a part of my anatomy Part fighter, survivor, parts of a titan Eyes […]