Three months prior to March Madness, attending a college basketball game last week provided relief from the news of absolute madness in Southern … [Read more...]
John Zant: Senior year showtime for basketball buddies
December 3, 2015 by
It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship when Bolden Brace and Amber Melgoza started bouncing balls as toddlers. They lived on different sides … [Read more...]
John Zant: Postseason power for Gauchos and Cardinals
November 26, 2015 by
The checkered ball seemed to carom randomly around the pitch at Harder Stadium for much of the moonlit Sunday night. “Some” was the operative word — … [Read more...]
John Zant: Playoff fever on football field and soccer pitch
November 19, 2015 by
Santa Barbara spectators were wrung out last weekend from watching 15 touchdowns and one goal. They saw Bishop Diego High’s football team cross the … [Read more...]
Swinging for Success with Squash
November 12, 2015 by
It’s just before three o’clock Saturday afternoon, and the lobby of the Santa Barbara Athletic Club is mostly empty. Members have wrapped up their … [Read more...]
John Zant: Carpinteria Warriors’ Jimenez Football Legacy
November 6, 2015 by
Tim Jimenez Jr. could have stayed in Vegas, a city teeming with very big and very fast young men, and perhaps he’d be playing football with them on a … [Read more...]
John Zant: Smashing Sisters of Volleyball
October 29, 2015 by
Chloe and Emily Allen are athletically gifted sisters who could have taken up any sport and achieved a degree of success. That they both became … [Read more...]
John Zant: Tracking baseball playoffs, sans Dodgers
October 22, 2015 by
The baseball playoffs have proceeded with craziness, emotion, and passion — and without the L.A. Dodgers. They were all dressed up with the most … [Read more...]
