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Part of me really admires former Cal Poly baseball star Grant Desme for giving up a promising pro career to enter the priesthood.
Another part of me wonders why he didn’t save the seminary for a few years down the road and play ball now while he can.
A top prospect in the A’s organization, Desme had [...]

Gotta send one last set of props out to the Cal Poly softball and baseball teams for a fine year.
Even though the endings didn’t turn out quite as well as we all might have hoped, it was a landmark year in many respects.
The softball team put up a good fight in its return to the [...]

There was a time before the events of Sept. 11, 2001, when baseball was a more carefree and innocent game.
Before the first pitch, the home team would send out a special guest to perform the national anthem, everyone would turn their attention to the flag, and the proper moments of patriotic observance would occur.
Then, a [...]

For some reason, most of the really big attention given to Cal Poly sports teams
goes to football and men’s basketball.
Sometimes it’s deserved, like for the football team this past year.
Sometimes it’s not, like for this year’s basketball squad, which managed to not even qualify for the conference tournament thanks to an embarrassing last-place finish, the [...]

So I was vowing not to weigh in on this topic since the entire sports world is flapping its gums ad infinitum on the subject, but then I realized I had a completely unoriginal answer that I haven’t heard in the last 24 hours regarding Manny Ramirez and his penchant for taking women’s fertility drugs.
In [...]