Advertisement
Varsity Times Insider

Boys’ basketball: Johnson visits George Fox

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
Staff WriterFollow
Share

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.

While waiting for my flight back from vacation yesterday afternoon at the Portland airport, I saw a familiar face amble by in the terminal: Crenshaw’s Moriah Johnson.

Many athletes either ignore reporters, act like they don’t see them or maybe give a cursory wave at best. Not Johnson.

He stopped by to say hello and told me he was visiting George Fox University, located in Newberg, Ore., in the heart of the Willamette Valley. According to its web site, George Fox is ‘a Christian university of the humanities, sciences and professional studies founded in 1891 by Quaker pioneers.’

Advertisement

Johnson, who is the star of the BET reality show ‘Baldwin Hills,’ has openly espoused Christian views on the show, including the desire to be abstinent before marriage. Sounds like George Fox might be a good fit for a good kid.

--Ben Bolch

Varsity Times Insider
Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

Advertisement