TORRANCE TRIBUNE August 27, 2015 Page 5 Up and Adam STARS & STRIPES A M E R I C A N M A D E C L O T H I N G S T O R E COME CHECK US OUT! GREAT CLOTHING INCLUDING DENIM, HATS, BAGS, SHOES AND MORE 1107 Van Ness Ave.Torrance, CA 90501 • 310.320-3207 LEE 101 USA, WOOLRICH, SAVE KHAKI, MINNETONKA MOCCASIN, PENNY, JAN SPORT, DULUTH, REYN SPOONER, TRETORN, BALL, BURTON, STANCE, RAINBOW SANDALS, FILSON, TEVA, NEW YORK HAT, PADDY WAX, RICHER & POORER, SCHOTT USA, STRATHTAY Open Mondays through Saturdays Noon to 6pm Will There Be Football in L.A.? By Adam Serrao, asixlion@earthlink.net As another football season sits upon us, fans here in Los Angeles are left wondering if L.A. will ever get a team of their own again. The Los Angeles Raiders and the Los Angeles Rams both fled the area and played their last football games in L.A. on Christmas Eve of 1994. Some present, huh? Los Angeles has been starved of football ever since. Well, the city is hungry again. People from all around Los Angeles are pitching ideas - some sensible and some just ridiculous - to get commissioner Roger Goodell to choose their city as the host city of L.A.’s next great football team. Despite the efforts, however, everything still seems like just “talk.” So what’s it going to be? Will there actually be a football team back in Los Angeles anytime soon? NFL owners met in Chicago most recently just a few months ago and one of the things that they discussed was the proposition of a new NFL team in Los Angeles. That wasn’t the first time. NFL owners have been discussing a proposed plan to bring the NFL back to L.A. for years now. Still, nothing. The three teams being considered for relocation are the San Diego Chargers, the Oakland Raiders and the St. Louis Rams. There is only room for two out of the three teams to relocate, but at this point it still seems as if absolutely no teams are gaining ground on a potential move. Executive vice president of NFL ventures and business operations Eric Grubman discussed a Raiders possible move at the meetings in Chicago. “The facts on the ground are that there’s been no viable proposal to the Raiders,” he said. So with all of the talk that the Raiders could come back to Los Angeles lately, it seems as if there hasn’t even been a proposal yet for them to do so. The Rams, on the other hand, have had their current owner, Stan Kroenke, buy 60 acres of land in Inglewood, California with the plan of building an 80,000-seat NFL stadium on it. Still nothing on the horizon for St. Louis, though. Kroenke’s hope is that by controlling a local site that is big enough for a stadium plus parking, Goodell and the rest of the NFL will be swayed to approve a move. After all is said and done, however, Kroenke’s appeal to the league is just another of more than a dozen stadium proposals that have come and gone in the last two-decade effort to bring America’ s biggest sport to the nation’s second-largest media market. Like all of the rest, the league will most likely simply snub their nose at it as well. Not much is known of San Diego’s efforts to come to Los Angeles except that they are asking for a new stadium in San Diego and not getting it. Also, their starting quarterback, Philip Rivers, has been outspoken about his hatred of L.A. and the team just signed him to a new four-year, $83 million deal. Seems as if they have assured the San Diegan that he won’t be going anywhere, although that certainly cannot be confirmed. See Football, page 8 Burkley & Brandlin LLP A T T O R N E Y S A T L AW Living Trusts/Wills, Probate, Employment Law, Personal Injury Trust and Estates Litigation, Business Litigation, Civil Litigation 310-540-6000 *AV Rated (Highest) Martindale - Hubbell / **Certified Specialist Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization Spartans Look to Sizzle By Adam Serrao, asixlion@earthlink.net The time has finally come. High School football season is officially here. That’s right, the Friday night lights are back and the season will kick-off this Friday night as the North High Saxons get the season going by taking on the Redondo Union Sea Hawks. Other teams from around Torrance such as the West High Warriors, Torrance Tartars and South High Spartans will play their first games of the season the following week. Before we can officially get things underway though, there is one last team to preview from the Pioneer League. South High has had a rough go of things lately, but every team needs some down time before they can rise back up to the top. Could this be the year that the Spartans get things back on track? It has been quite a while now since the South High Spartans have enjoyed the honor of being on top of the Pioneer League standings. Just because the team hasn’t finished in first place, though, doesn’t mean that they haven’t been good. Take last year, for example. South finished behind West High, North High and Torrance High in the standings, but still managed to make it into the playoffs. The Spartans run would end in the first round as they took on Ventura and lost by a final score of 49-7, but overall, South still managed to pull out a pretty successful season. The beginning of the year was the most successful for the Spartans. Four straight wins including a 61-28 thrashing over Calvary Chapel and a 57-7 route of Rancho Dominguez led the way and had fans of South High believing that their team had what it took to maybe even go all the way. Speaking of going all the way, Spartans fans remember the 2010-’11 season well when they had the chance to do just that. After finishing atop the Pioneer League standings, South made it all the way to the championship game against Lompoc. With just seconds remaining on the clock, starting running back Eric Capacchione was stuffed at the two-yard line as time ran off the clock and the Spartans wound up losing by just six points. Had the run been successful, South would have most certainly taken home the CIF championship trophy that year. Instead, the Spartans have been mired in a slump ever since that the team is certainly looking to turn around starting here and now. The Spartans should have little problem turning things around by building off of last season. Though the team lost to all of their inner-city rivals last season, the games were somewhat close and South certainly had their chances. Naturally, there were seniors on the team that helped the Spartans make the playoffs last season who will missed. Among those include the Bjazevich brothers. Vini at running back and Bailey at wide receiver both enjoyed great season in their own right. Bailey contributed 39 total receptions last season for 610 total yards and seven touchdowns. Meanwhile his brother Vini carried the ball 90 times out of the backfield for a total of 577 yards and 13 touchdowns. The brothers will certainly be missed, but various different See Up and Adam, page 8
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