John Zant: Football season’s concussion concerns

I have a crush on college football. There are way too many bowl games, but at the end of the old year and beginning of the new, I will be savoring … [Read more...]

John Zant: Slam dunks and blocked hopes for college hoops

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

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

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

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...]

John Zant: Carpinteria Warriors’ Jimenez Football Legacy

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

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

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...]