Quote from: MonroviaCat on December 23, 2025, 09:20:24 PMYou can read all about it here.....

https://college.lclark.edu/student_life/about-us/our-mascot-a-community-engagement-process/


But basically, the "Pioneer" mascot was unpopular and they took the opportunity to rebrand.  Some might claim it was just another example of caving to woke politics but if that were the case, wouldn't they change then name of the actual school since it's named after 2 actual "Pioneers"?

Well. Banana Slugs is already taken.

Why did L&C change their mascot from Pioneers to River Otters?

Quote from: olddog on December 23, 2025, 11:59:16 AM2026 going to be an interesting year..APU will be new to the league and Whittier coming back into the league.

APU and Whittier, I think they will find some decent kids with skills, but will they find enough linemen. I know APU is hitting the JCs for linemen.

La Verne, showed signs of improving at the end of they year, I think they have a solid coach. They will get better.

CLU, how much of a commitment to FB do they have? Lugo seems to have figured it out, to get the most out of what they have, transfer friendly school...use it

CMS, given the financial structure they can offer kids, and facilities, the should be better than they have been.

PP, see above, no excuses...these two should be the best teams in the league. Money talks

Chapman, word is they are getting very picky in the recruiting process, quality kids only, telling other kids you can try out. I hope they give the OC the HC job.

Redlands, repeat and rinse....find O linemen...find O linemen...find O linemen...They have the staff, best DC in the league and I think the OC is going to work out,...find O linemen....Order the jab for a few of our existing kids...push away from the table boys.

Oxy - Libs - took their ball and now just do sit in, I thought I would never say it, but I miss Oxy Bob wonder if he is alive.

Merry Christmas to all...even Cal Lu Fans
Merry Christmas to all...even Cal Lu Fans...

Lack of linemen killed Oxy, not the libs.  Oxy Bob is alive.  He occasionally writes to the LA Times about the Dodgers.  I'm wondering his take on the "hiatus'  of the ND/USC rivalry game.

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Quote from: Gregory Sager on December 02, 2025, 10:37:56 AMI've been assiduously studying women's flag football games on YouTube in preparation for North Park's WFF debut this spring, trying to learn the lingo and see how the sport-specific rules shake out in actual game play so that I can call the games without stumbling around and looking like a tyro.

What I've mostly learned is that the Mexicans are really, really good at women's flag football, and Diana Flores is the Tom Brady of this sport.

I just assumed that flag football was mostly driven by the American suburbs, but that is interesting.

Mexico has a surprisingly long and proud history of men's college football, but I really had no idea that they were so dominant in flag football.

Apparently, flag football is also coming to the Olympics or maybe has already been an Olympic sport.

I love that North Park has a Norwegian on the squad.

Yes, Aurora Drangevag is NPU flag football's version of what I call the "Random Scandinavian Factor" of North Park athletics. Seemingly every sport on campus that doesn't involve bats and gloves has to have at least one Norwegian or Swede on the roster, regardless of whether or not the sport is popular in Scandinavia -- and at one point a few years ago we did indeed have a Swedish baseball player.

Because Aurora's high school was named after Edvard Grieg, I'm hoping to talk NPU's flag football head coach Ramon Palma into having the Vikings run out onto the field before games with "In the Hall of the Mountain King" blaring over the P.A.

What about team handball?

Quote from: CG1991 on November 23, 2025, 12:07:12 AMAnyone notice the refs didn't stop clock after the first down to the 5.  Almost cost them a chance to tie

20 year member, and this is your first post?

Quote from: Kuiper on November 18, 2025, 03:24:41 PMAnyone offended by Flo charging for streaming DIII games should really be upset at this:

Wall Street is Paywalling Your Kids' Sports

The story itself is paywalled (irony!), but here's an excerpt from a social media post

Private equity owned hockey facilities and leagues are banning parents from filming their kids' youth hockey games.  They have to subscribe to the companies' exclusive streaming and recording services, "which cost many times more than the streaming costs for professional sporting events" and alternative video services are prohibited.

Where is my "angry" option like Facebook has?

Quote from: WUPHF on November 16, 2025, 03:11:52 PM

Quote from: y_jack_lok on November 16, 2025, 03:06:33 PM^^^ What convinces you?

The part about the decreased quality over the short run.

After ESPN or Disney take over it will look better then now but maybe not better than before.

NCAA Warns Schools Government Shutdown May Affect Fall Championships

2025 Presaeson Poll

https://thesciac.org/news/2025/11/4/ncaa-quarterfinalist-redlands-picked-for-2025-26-mens-basketball-championship.aspx

2025 Preseason Poll

https://thesciac.org/news/2025/11/4/regals-tabbed-to-reign-atop-2025-26-sciac-womens-basketball-preseason-poll.aspx

Quote from: Kuiper on October 30, 2025, 12:36:27 AMLate night SCIAC action:

Occidental 2 - Cal Lutheran 1

Oxy secures at least a tie for first in the SCIAC with the victory over lowly Cal Lu.  It was actually 1-1 in the 54th minute, but Oxy countered with a second goal in the 60th minute and held on for the rest of the game. Although the score wasn't high, the teams definitely were free-swinging tonight.  They each took 22 shots!  Occidental finishes the regular season on a three game winning streak and goes into the SCIAC tournament with a 6-3-3 record (8-5-4 overall).

Redlands 2 - CMS 1

Anders Beckton scored two goals, the second of which was a great target striker goal where he held off two defenders in the box and turned to his right for a quick strike between them that was just inside the post and left the CMS GK standing and watching.  CMS did get a late goal to make things interesting on a beautiful zig-zagging run through traffic at the top of the box by a CMS defender who dished it off to high left for an immediate shot and goal by Collin Ross.  There were shouts for a PK toward the end when John Laidlaw was upended by the GK in the box, but the ref was hearing none of it.  Redlands wins its 4th game in a row and jumps into second place in the SCIAC with one game left against Cal Lutheran and a chance to tie Occidental for the regular season championship.   

Oxy is labeling themselves as champions on Facebook.

Quote from: wildcat11 on October 29, 2025, 10:13:44 AMOxy was a pretty unique set up. I did enjoy the fact Oxy's team was on the opposite side of the stands. I figured that was done so the coaching staff didn't have to listen to armchair QB's in their home crowd and less distractions.

And the crowd could pick on the visiting players.

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Quote from: that guy 31 on October 27, 2025, 05:07:05 PMI think playing so many repeat games is bad for the conference. It's been quite a while since I was a player but if I was being recruited and some schools were playing regular schedules and the others were playing 3 repeat games I feel like that would impact my decision. Just makes it seem small time. Just my opinion

I don't think anybody loves it, but the SCIAC has probably made the best of a terrible situation.  Divisions go away next year, so hopefully that's the end of that. 

I agree with this take. I think at the time the SCIAC went to this system they were trying to keep SCIAC football alive while programs were bailing. In that way it accomplished its mission but I think harm was done and it will take time to build back.

Azusa and Whittier coming back is huge and hopefully in a few years we'll all look back and laugh at the division system once we're on the other side of the rebuild.

Many years ago the Pomona president wanted to be like NESCAC schools and cut the number of games to eight (what NESCAC did at that time).  The SCIAC teams ended up playing one of the SCIAC opponents twice.  Each contest between those two counted as half a game.  Any game with Pomona was not counted. Eventually the presidents forced them back in line.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on October 22, 2025, 01:05:49 PMA unified graphic package across all of their platform would be a good step -- it strikes me as unusual that it hasn't happened already.

I have watched some SCIAC coverage but not every school. Chapman continues to have the best production, as it did before joining Flo.

Chapman is considered a top media arts school.

Quote from: Kuiper on October 12, 2025, 01:10:06 AMSCIAC conference games after dark were crazy tonight

Whittier 3 - Redlands 3

For regular readers (are there any? as if! ), you know that I've been saying for the last few weeks that Redlands has missed Zachary Darmanyan on offense.  He provides some playmaking ability and he draws defenders away from Anders Beckton.  Lo and behold, first game Darmanyan is back since 9/24, Redlands goes out to a quick 2-0 lead with goals in the 13th and 18th minutes, both off of Darmanyan assists.  Whittier picks up a goal in the 25th minute to make it 2-1, but Redlands gets a third goal in the 28th to take a 3-1 lead, which they held onto for 50 minutes.  Darmanyan's return, however, didn't magically do anything for Redlands' defense.  Whittier scored in the 79th and 85th to salvage the tie and drop from 1st to a tie in 2nd with La Verne in the SCIAC.  Redlands loses a chance to move up and remains in second to last.

Occidental 3 - CMS 3

Like the Redlands-Whittier game, the beginning of the game was bonkers.  Two teams desperate to get back into the SCIAC conference tournament race came in with a game plan of throwing everything forward (and dispensing with defense).  By the 16th minute, it was 2-2.  Even crazier, they alternated goals and they were both braces.  CMS' John Laidlaw scored in the 2nd and 11th minutes.  Oxy's Devin Bening scored in the 9th and 16th minutes. The second half started like the first half.  CMS scored in the 48th and Oxy scored in the 57th to make it 3-3.  Then, in the 59th, Oxy's Matt Shea, who had the assist on Oxy's 3rd goal, got a straight red card and Oxy had to change its tactics and CMS couldn't break them down despite being a man up.  The tie does move Oxy past Pomona-Pitzer for the 4th and final SCIAC tournament slot, while keeping CMS just behind Pomona-Pitzer for the 5th spot with the two teams playing each other next week in the 6th street rivalry game.

Chapman 1 - Pomona-Pitzer 0

Very tight game, but Chapman had a moment of quality in the 53rd minute and that was the difference.  Chapman vaults to the top of the SCIAC table with the teams ahead of it tying or losing and Pomona-Pitzer drops out of the last tournament slot.

I assume that the SCIAC will again have the 4/5 first round matchup.