Notes and Quotes on Football, Soccer, Finances and Such

They’re random, they’re reckless, they’re midseason blurbs. Drink these down with your morning cup of Java . . .

* George Bush looks to be pretty bored this year. Give him the Laguna Beach football program and see if he can make anything out of it.

* Some teams have heart; the Capistrano Valley girls’ soccer team has Hearts. The Cougars play the card game on the bus ride to every away game.

* For all the hype and hoopla surrounding it, a letter of intent is, in reality, quite a dull-looking piece of paper.

* A recent study of all high school sports shows that, on a per-player basis, soccer has the most knee injuries.

* The study also recommends that a player be removed from the game if he or she has sudden sharp pain, immediate swelling, numbness or tingling, discoloration, buckling at the knee or hears sounds like popping or snapping. Apparently, a simple “ouch” won’t get you anywhere.

* It’s bad enough that Mater Dei has Marmet Williams, Terence Wilborn, et al. Now the Monarchs have Darryl Strawberry. The Dodger outfielder has been attending games with Charisse Simon, big sister of Miles.

* When America Robledo’s game goes south, do they call the Santiago point guard South America?

* El Toro boys’ basketball booster DeIna Senik tells us the recent Mater Dei-El Toro game didn’t pass without controversy. Senik says Mater Dei fans sneaked in a back door and hid in restrooms between frosh-soph and JV games to avoid paying admission.

* “ Go Uni! “ might be a popular cry during University High basketball games, but what would a Japanese tourist think?

Uni , after all, means “sea urchin” in Japanese.

* Corona del Mar volleyball Coach Lance Stewart says his team will start the 1993 season with a wilderness survival camp on Catalina. But if Stewart has an ecological-minded bone in his body, he’d consider sending the Sea Kings to Pakistan.

There, at Pakistan’s Khunjerab National Park, volunteer athletes are needed for a scientific research project on the Himalayan mountain marmot. Accommodations are provided--in tents.

* Brother-sister Rod and Katie Scheuerman of Tustin are the leading scorers for the Tiller boys’ and girls’ basketball teams. Not even Greg and Marcia Brady managed that.

* Jim Harris, Ocean View boys’ basketball coach, has quite a following. Harris received a fan letter recently from a “Mr. Jan Boris.” Harris says he has never met the man, which makes sense. Boris resides in the newly formed republic, Slovakia.

* Exercise-induced asthma was the trendy sports malady of the ‘80s. The latest trend? Doctors call it exercise-induced headache.

* Some say the best way to get gang members off the street is to encourage them to participate in sports. But according to one Orange County high school newspaper, a flag football game organized last year for rival gangs was canceled . . . because of violence.

* Rocky Gray, Santiago High track coach and avid body-builder, is a former Mr. Sacramento.

* Whatever happened to the Orange County Section?

* Swimmers visiting Irvine’s Heritage Park Aquatic Center take note: The City of Irvine has deemed “quick changing” on the pool deck to be offensive and unacceptable.

* Reebok has withdrawn its financial support for the CIF, and officials are scrambling to find a new fat cat. Might there be a Ross Perot-CIF State Basketball Championships in our future?

* By the way, at “The Funding Crisis in High School Athletics” conference last year in Los Angeles, one speaker warned that schools should not rely solely on corporate involvement.

The speaker? Angel Martinez, vice president of Reebok.

* John Koehler, girls’ basketball coach at La Habra, took the Highlanders to Lake Shasta for a week of hiking and houseboating last year. The highlight of the week? A night of snipe hunting. (If you don’t know what a snipe is, ask someone who does).

* Capistrano Valley girls’ soccer Coach Harry Hutcheson, on his team’s loss to Mission Viejo a few Mondays ago:

“Oh yeah, it was our annual ‘Typical Loss to Mission on Monday Day,’ ” Hutcheson said. “It’s a sacred, wonderful day.”

* Finally, rumor has it that the Esperanza and Los Alamitos football teams--still dissatisfied with their season-ending tie--are going to settle it once and for all this weekend at the Rose Bowl.

That’s right--Esperanza-Los Al III will be a punt, pass and kick showdown at the NFL Experience.