Usually, post-season voting in the Mountain West Conference focuses a lot more on the "mountain" and not so much on the "west," but the basketball all-MWC teams announced on Monday mostly make sense.
That includes San Diego State's Steve Fisher sharing the Coach of the Year Award with Dave Rose of BYU. Both have done amazing jobs this season. Critics of Rose say all he needs to do is direct Player of the Year Jimmer Fredette to drive or pull up for the jumper -- and then hide him on defense -- but he led a team with one star and a bunch of quality spare parts to a 28-3 record. That's an outstanding accomplishment. You can argue that the Aztecs should be 29-2 with their talent level relative to the competition they've played this season. Great jobs by both coaches, so sharing is appropriate.
I also think honorary-mention kudos should go to Colorado State's Tim Miles, who has his program on the rise. The Rams were knocking on the NCAA's door just a couple of weeks ago.
What thrilled me was the selection of G DJ Gay as a first-team player, along with the obvious choice of F Kawhi Leonard. Fisher kept referring to Gay as SDSU's "most important player," and he is, and voters were listening.
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I read the joint statement from San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and Chargers owner Dean Spanos on their meeting about the stadium issue, and didn't come away with too much. They chatted, Sanders told him there wouldn't be much redevelopment money to pay for a new facility. They talked more and Spanos told him not to expect financing help from the NFL. Then they sighed and scheduled another meeting.
I wonder if they can combine the football stadium and a new city hall into one project.
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Let me see, Padres 3B Chase Headley blames his mediocre 2010 results on his inability to retain weight. According to the newspaper, he dropped from 208 pounds to 200. That's EIGHT pounds! EIGHT (8)! You can lose eight pounds in an extra-inning July day game in St. Louis. How about this? He wasn't very good at the plate.
He might be better this year. I hope he is, for his sake and ours. Seems like a nice kid, just drop the excuses. It's baseball and he was beaten by the competition.
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Speaking of being unrealistic, there's Padres GM Jed Hoyer, who tried to make Gregg Zaun the backup catcher, only to have him retire on Tuesday. Zaun is a tender 39 years of age. Sixteen years of crouching behind the plate will make you tender. And they were counting on him? There's planning for you...The Padres got shut down by Kansas City P Sean O'Sullivan (Valhalla High) on Monday and Oakland P Trevor Cahill (Vista High) Tuesday...Oft-injured P Joel Zumaya (Montgomery High) might miss the beginning of the regular season because of a sore elbow...SDSU baseball now has a 2-10 record after losing 12-9 to Cal State Northridge. The Aztecs shouldn't lose to Northridge in any sport...USD is not much better at 3-7.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune rates the hosts heard on local sports talk radio programs on Wednesday. I don't agree with all the writer's ratings, but he makes a lot of good points.
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