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...great team by any means (its 20 losses by far the most amongst the final eight), the Diabalos entered the Far Western Regionals against powerful USC, the dominant force in modern college baseball (and not without a small impact on the major leagues: Fred Lynn and Bill Lee would certainly come to mind in Boston). The Trojans had inflicted 7-0 and 15-2 poundings on Cal State in their earlier encounters...
...USC's Scott Simpson is expected to retain his national individual championship but Barton Goodwin of Rice and Jeff Sanders of Oregon (who finished second and third last year when the tournament was held in Albequerque, N.M.) will also be returning...
...mind the great bastion of Eastern intellectualism--the kind of people who read Playboy and don't say so in confession, who snicker wickedly when the bishop belches into the pulpit microphone during his Christmas sermon and especially the ones who root for USC against Notre Dame every November. But real Catholics aren't so kind. As a sign of serious spiritual decay, a Harvard education ranks right down there between nymphomania and a marked distaste for fish. It's not that Harvard is so evil, of course--it's just that Georgetown, Fordham, Holy Cross, St. John...
...wrong--I like football as well as the next guy and I suppose you could make a case that I like it even a little more. But this spring practice stuff has gotten more than a little out of hand. For example at USC the first day out in pads the coaching staff put the squad through a full-speed, full-contact scrimmage that put a number of ballplayers in the training room--and the hospital. You might say that's life but this ain't even football season. Spring practice is supposed to be a learning experience...
...rankings which bring national attention, which brings television appearances, which bring money, no longer is any game a preseason affair. Spring practice has taken the place of fall preseason. All personnel and strategy decisions are made long before the team reports in August. That all-out session at USC has become necessary so that the team can be set and ready before the season even begins. Like the pros, college football has become a nine-months-of-the-year affair...